Survey claims mobile gamers prefer the Kindle Fire to Google Android tablets

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Survey claims mobile gamers prefer the Kindle Fire to Google Android tablets
We have to admit, despite the relative popularity of the Kindle Fire line of tablets, we are always a bit surprised when there is a newsworthy story about Amazon's tablets, unless it has to do with the release of new hardware. So, you can imagine how surprised we were to hear that a survey is saying that mobile gamers prefer Kindle Fire tablets to Android tablets with Google Play services.

The info comes from the App Annie & IDC Portable Gaming Report for Q3 2013, which surveyed 1,117 respondents. The not-so-surprising results from the survey are that iOS is the most popular platform for mobile gaming with about 35% of respondents saying that they preferred either the iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch. The iPad was also the leader among tablets with about 17% of respondents, but that didn't put the iPad too far ahead of Amazon. 

The Kindle Fire tablets had about 12% of the vote, which was enough to make it number two in terms of tablets, well ahead of Google Android tablets which took in about 5% of the vote. Google Android smartphones gathered enough votes to bring the entire range of Google Play devices up to around 28% total, which would be enough to tie Apple when looking at just phones and tablets. But, Apple also has the iPod Touch, which gave iOS the win. 

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Kindle Fire even had enough votes to edge out the Nintendo DS & 3DS portables, as well as the "Other" category. Maybe we need to stop underestimating the Amazon platform. 


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