It's no surprise, then, that mobile games developers are reporting record download spikes for the holiday season.
For instance, Finnish firm Rovio has announced that Angry Birds games accumulated more than 8 million downloads on Christmas day 2012, and 30 million downloads during the seven days beginning 22 December.
Meanwhile, Imangi Studios co-founder Keith Shepherd announced festive figures for Temple Run via Twitter, explaining that the game accrued more than 1 million Christmas day downloads on iOS, more than 1 million on Android, and more than 500,000 on the Amazon Appstore.
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Imangi Studios also contributed to Disney's festive success, as Temple Run: Brave was one of the games that helped the House of Mouse generate 15 million downloads over the five-day period beginning 22 December.
That figure represents a 98 percent increase in downloads against the same period in 2011, and Disney also reported a 400 percent year-on-year increase in peak daily active users, which spiked at 7.5 million.
Finally, California-based developer Storm8 has also been participating in the stat-sharing, announcing that its portfolio of social games generated 2 million downloads on Christmas day alone.
That equates to a four-fold increase in downloads when compared an average day. More importantly, perhaps, Storm8 also saw a Christmas day increase in average revenue per user of 350 percent.
