Breaking
Studio Kaiju confirms Neon Requiem delay to Q1Handheld sales up 41% year on yearAshfall Interactive unionises, first in the sector this yearSunset Harbour patch adds full photo modeEdge of Orbit hits ten million playersIndie showcase returns in SeptemberStudio Kaiju confirms Neon Requiem delay to Q1Handheld sales up 41% year on yearAshfall Interactive unionises, first in the sector this yearSunset Harbour patch adds full photo modeEdge of Orbit hits ten million playersIndie showcase returns in September

Handheld sales climb 41% as publishers rethink release windows

New quarterly figures suggest the portable market is no longer a secondary consideration for mid-budget releases.

Pedro Lopes28 July 20264 min readMulti-platform
Handheld sales climb 41% as publishers rethink release windows

Quarterly hardware figures published this week show handheld devices accounting for a substantially larger share of new releases than in any comparable period.

Three mid-sized publishers have already confirmed they will treat handheld parity as a launch requirement rather than a post-launch patch.

BusinessHardware

Related reading