Marketplace Analysis Shows Games Rule The Roost

Distro have released one of their many reports looking at the health of various mobile app stores, and while they focus on iOS primarily, there are some interesting facts to be gathered with regards to the WP7 Marketplace.

If you look at highly ranked free applications, games take up four of the top 10 slots, the largest category — plus XBox Live Extras, which isn’t a game itself, but is game related. On the paid side of things, however, the entire top 10 highes ranked applications is made up of games. There are a couple of perennial mobile gaming favorites on the list: Fruit Ninja, Brain Challenge, but a good number of these are WP7 specific.

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