亚马逊Android应用商店Appstore最近备受瞩目，据路透社报道，法国游戏发行商Gameloft首席执行官Yves Guillemot最近也表示看好该应用商店发展前景。

谈到公司的未来规划时，Guillemot称他认为亚马逊Appstore有能力为开发商、用户提供谷歌官方的Android Market所不具备的服务体验。

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游戏邦获悉，Guillemot的观点是，亚马逊的丰富在线零售经验，以及它与用户建立起的稳定关系，有助于将Appstore打造成一个销售手机游戏的理想平台。“亚马逊生态系统受到良好的控制，在这里我们不会发现太多盗版游戏，或者恶意插件游戏，所以对用户来说，它也会是个安全的应用下载渠道。”

正是基于这种考虑，Gameloft才一直对Android Market顾虑重重，只能通过自己的门户网站销售Android手机游戏。游戏邦得知该公司最近已将Android平台列入了重点考虑的名单，并向亚马逊应用商店推出了《UNO》和《Asphalt 5》这两款游戏。

当然，Gameloft并不会孤注一掷，把所有的鸡蛋放在同一个篮子里。据Guillemot所述，面向连网电视的游戏产品，将成为Gameloft在2012年重要的营收来源，他们还计划向任天堂eShop投放3D游戏产品。

此外，社交游戏也是Gameloft的一个发展方向，“社交游戏在未来几年内将向移动领域进军，这确实是个好消息，我们对手机平台非常了解，所以会充分利用这一优势抓住发展机遇。”

目前为止，该公司在社交游戏领域的最大动静是去年9月分向Facebook平台推出了《Green Farm》。（本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译，转载请注明来源：游戏邦）

Gameloft CEO Guillemot on why a firm stance on piracy means Amazon’s Appstore is Android kingmaker

Early impressions of Amazon’s Appstore have been generally favourable, and now Gameloft CEO Yves Guillemot has come forward to heap even more praise on the marketplace.

Discussing the publisher’s future in an interview with Reuters, Guillemot said the Amazon Appstore had the power to provide Android with the kind of stability for developers and consumers that Google hasn’t managed to achieve with the default Android Market.

No basket case

The Gameloft man claimed Amazon’s considerable experience in online retail – and the relationship it’s built with consumers as a result – means the marketplace is the perfect platform for selling mobile games.

“The Amazon ecosystem is controlled where we don’t find too many pirated version of our games or malware games, so for the consumers, it will be a safer place to come and get applications,” said Guillemot.

As a result, Gameloft – which has, until now, chosen to avoid Android Market by selling its Android games via its own web portal – claims Android is moving up its priority list.

It currently has two Android titles – UNO and Asphalt 5 – available on the appstore.

Going social

Though, naturally, Gameloft isn’t putting all its eggs in one basket.

Games for internet-connected TVs will be an important tool for revenue growth in 2012, Guillemot said, and the publisher also plans to bring its roster of licenses to Nintendo’s eShop for 3DS.

From a mobile perspective, social gaming is also key to Gameloft’s growth.

“The good news is that social games are planning to get to the mobile space over the next few years,” added Guillemot.

“We know this mobile space very well and we’ll be able to leverage it.”

To date, one of Gameloft’s biggest forages into the social gaming sector has come in the form of Facebook release Green Farm, which hit the social network back in September.（source:pocketgamer）