Football Manager Handheld for Windows Phone??

[Gunhildfm]

Since Football Manager Handheld is out on Android and Iphone. I was wondering if the game will be coming to Windows Phone also in the future?

[Alari Naylor]

As things currently stand it's probably not practical due to a) low market share and b) Windows phone not yet allowing development in C++.

[unow]

too bad my nokia Lumia 800 deserved a game with this quality.
I would pay € 50 for it

The market is not so small, in China there are already more WP than iphones.

[Marc Vaughan]

I quite like the look of the Lumia 800 myself and think Windows mobile has some promise, however until it supports C++ its simply not a viable platform - there are a whopping two developers working on the FMH product range, FMH itself is over 300,000 lines of source code ... as such porting it to a new language simply isn't feasible at present.

(trust me I've looked into work arounds as I like the MS development suites myself)

[Hoodz]

Now that Windows Phone supports c++ will we see the game on the platform?

[Alari Naylor]

TBH I don't think it's likely in the near future as uptake (of WP8) in the markets where we do most of our sales still hasn't been great.

[Hoodz]

An extra platform would mean extra sales.

[Marc Vaughan]

An extra platform would mean extra sales.

And extra development time and QA costs and support .... not saying it'll never happen, but nothing is planned at present in this regard.

[Hoodz]

Well hopefully it will happen, sooner rather than later.

[rajsood79]

Really hoping we get a port one day, this would be such a big seller on WP. Lucky I have my iPad and play on that now I no longer use android. Just out of curiosity have you spoken to MS about any sort of deal to make it more feasible for you to develop a port for WP? They do sometimes make "deals" to get popular apps and games on the platform (desperate here!).

[Dec9693]

I think even if they have it'd be under NDA so they won't be able to tell you, sorry.

[Macflyer]

And extra development time and QA costs and support .... not saying it'll never happen, but nothing is planned at present in this regard.

I understand where you are coming from. Mind you, the old formula is still valid for me: software spurs hardware sales.

I went iOS because also of FMH. I went Android (tablet) when FMH was released for it. I love Nokia and do think WP8 is an awesome mobile platform. I don't mind choices.