Windows phone 7, xbox live y videojuegos

No es hablar de iPhonekillers. No se trata de que desaparezca, que no lo va a hacer.
Desarrolladores implicados en WP7... miles y más con la noticia de la llegada de Nokia.

Gamerlive.tv reports that developers were already
boosting game development for Windows Phone 7 in anticipation of the Nokia deal
to adopt Windows phone 7.

This information is via Flurry, an company who provides online tools for
developers to monitor how and when their application is being used. Flurry
tracked new application starts within its system recorded when a developer adds
the Flurry SDK to its pre-release application.


The analytics company found that there was a 66% increase in the number of
games and apps started last week, compared to the week before. They note the
only new news had been the increasingly strong rumours of the Nokia/Windows
Phone 7 deal.


Peter Farago, vice president of marketing at research firm Flurry, said
“Since we only began Flurry Analytics support for Microsoft Windows Phone 7 five
weeks ago, we went back in our records to ensure what we were seeing was not an
aberration,” said Farago. “For an apples-to-apples comparison, we studied Flurry
new project starts for the first five weeks of support for each of the following
platforms: Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone 7. We then normalized the
measurement to show a relative vs. absolute comparison (percentages vs. actual
numbers).”


He notes, from Flurry’s point of view, this week’s spike in Windows Phone 7
developer activity shows that developers not only believe Nokia has given
Microsoft Windows Phone7 a shot in the arm, but also that Nokia and Microsoft
together can build a viable ecosystem.


“With spiking support for Nokia and Microsoft, developers are showing us they
believe.”


The graph above shows the relative pace of increasing developer use of
Flurry’s Analytics package in the first 5 weeks of their coverage by Flurry by
platform, and it is interesting for a number of reasons. The first is of course
that it shows a steady increase in developers starting new projects on Windows
Phone 7, which suggests the linear “100 apps per day” will soon see an increase
itself, the second is that the rate of increase until before the Nokia
announcement matched Android, which I think most will agree has become a
successful app platform, thirdly that Blackberry was not so lucky, with
developers seemingly abandoning the platform – clearly not a successful app
platform and one which the Windows phone 7 marketplace will likely overtake
shortly.


The last is of course the tremendous boost seen even before official
confirmation of the Windows phone 7 deal, which came at the very end of the
business week. I suspect the boost will now be even larger this week, now that
the deal, which is even more massive in scope than previously suspected, has
been confirmed.


“While Android ultimately became a vibrant platform, it’s also important to
note the relative drop off in BlackBerry’s project starts over the same initial
period,” added Farago. “It appears that developers voted down BlackBerry as a
viable third contender to Apple and Google in the first five weeks of Flurry’s
support. Months later, the market proved these developers right.”


To date, 38,000 companies have created projects using Flurry.

Flurry Analytics: Game development for WP7 increase 66% Week on Week in anticipation of Nokia/Windows Phone 7 deal