Love it or hate it, Rovio’s Angry Birds has been a runaway success, its immense sales on the iPhone platform enough to secure $42 million in investment recently. And Rovio’s head, Peter Vesterbacka, is understandably bullish.
At the South by Southwest Interactive conference in Austin, Vesterbacka claimed that innovation in gaming has moved towards mobile and social spaces, because, among other reasons, it’s easier to react quicker and get content out faster.
He said that, as the mobile devices continue to grow, traditional console games are “dying” – scoffing at the pricing model that sees new games priced around the $50 mark.
“Of course,” says Venturebeat, the first to report on this story, “those $40 and $50 games are more likely to bring substantial revenue than Angry Birds, and that seems more sustainable for companies spending a lot of money building high-quality games using cutting-edge technology.”
Angry Birds has shifted over 100 million downloads, but Vesterbacka acknowledges that, in regards to the perfect business model for mobile gaming, “no one has figured it out yet.”
He seems to be doing OK, to be fair, and many would argue Angry Birds is the exception rather than the rule…
Source: Venturebeat, via CVG.
Shakugan
Crush the Castle is IMO better than AB…
Flash
The dev is over excited clearly. What a fool.