The long-term challenge that mobile apps present Nintendo keeps getting more formidable. The new joint study from IDC and App Annie shows how consumer spending on games for iOS and Android continues to soar above spending on portable console games. In Q2 2013,lending devicerevenue fromlending deviceiOS games was more than double the revenue generated by 3DS and Sony Vita games. Google Play games alone also generated more revenue than the entire portable console industry. The trend lines are ugly: while portable console game sales decreased as the industry moved from Q1 2013 to Q2 2013, iOS and Google Play game app sales continued robust sequential growth. The mobile app market is so hot that it is delivering double-digit quarter on quarter sales

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