Mobile gaming (as in gaming on your mobile) is really a joke. The games out there for mobiles are all well and good, but most people dont buy games to play on their mobile, they got their mobile to make calls. The only people who really buy games are children and (hardcore) gamers. Both of these groups are more likely to have already purchased a dedicated gaming machine, instead of relying on a device that normally has a screen size smaller than a watch display. The only way more games are going to be shifted is if the price reflects what their main target audience (kids) can afford, which can only mean reducing their prices.

"The only people who really buy games are children and (hardcore) gamers."

Complete Rubbish.

Mobile games do sell, and they do make bucks, they're just making less millions than they were the previous quarter. It's a fickle market - anything involving people parting with money is, as they have bills to pay and other influences reflect their habits as consumers.

A good hint that it's not children nor hardcore gamers that are buying mobile games, but people with outside responsibilities such as bills and mortgages.

The demographic for mobile games is varied, but is comprised of a great many casual gamers - the opposite to hardcore gamers. You'll see more businessmen and women (generally) playing mobile games than you'll ever see kids, who are more interested in playing crap music on their speakers at the back of the bus.

Using SCUMM VM I have some nostalgic moments replaying Day of the Tentacle or the First Two Monkey Islands - windows mobile devices lend themselves to such games due in part to the large screen and also to the stylus driven interface which makes point and click games rather literal.

Does pass the time on the bus or train (or toilet) and is a bit of an untapped market as most mobile games are shite in comparison to free flash games online - which don't take too much work to get on the windows mobile - which having an open platform means you can do just that with the code - unlike a certain iFlop recently released on these shores.

for hard core gamers, mobile games are very frustrating to play.

You can replace a controller or a keyboard/mouse with todays mobile standarts.

One reason game sales are down is in-game ad supported games. At http://www.mobilerated.com you can get free games. Some are totally free but many have in-game ads. If you don't like the ads but like the game, you can buy the game which removes the ads - you don't need to re-download the game to do this.