Gartner has a new research report ($) out on the state of Mobile Gaming. As MediaPost's Online Media Daily reports, the picture is rosy:

WORLDWIDE MOBILE GAMING END-USER REVENUE will grow from $2.9 billion in 2006 to $9.6 billion in 2011, according to a new report from Gartner, Inc. Worldwide mobile gaming revenue in 2007, meanwhile, is on pace to total $4.3 billion in 2007, a 49.9 percent increase from 2006.

Of course most of these revenues are to be made outside the United States; nonetheless the U.S. market is big and it's growing:

In North America, where adoption of wireless technologies has been slower than in Asia and in Europe Gartner forecast that mobile gaming end user revenue will reach $716.9 million this year and $1.7 billion in 2011.

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