Gamers spent more on Google Play and the iOS App Store than they did on 3DS, PlayStation Vita, and other dedicated handheld gaming systems, according to data-tracking firm App Annie. In fact, by the third quarter of 2013, the combined spending on Play and the App Store was three times the size of gaming-optimized handhelds.
Free-to-play games with microtransactions drove most of this growth. App Annie revealed that overall spending on mobile games jumped more than 100 percent from 2012 to 2013. For the year, games with in-app purchases made up 93 percent of all revenue. Only 7 percent of all the money made by games on iOS and Android went to premium-priced apps.
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