According to Lazard Capital Markets’ Colin Sebastian, Angry Birds is the most downloaded PSN title ever, despite only being released in January. Quite where Colin has managed to find the sales data for PSN titles is unclear and it does sound slightly far fetched.
If Angry Birds is the most popular PSN game why did the maker claim “console games are dying”? And why don’t I ever see anyone playing it on my friends list? The reaction to the game on TSA was muted at best.
Source: IndustryGamers
colmshan1990
I have Angry Birds and Angry Birds Season on my N8…
Got bored fairly quickly though. Casual mobile games that are better include Flight Control, Fruit Ninja and Pokemon Crystal! :D (Well, one of those isn’t casual, but it’s the most played on my phone, so…)
R4U Eldave0
In terms of casual games Flight control is my personal winner :)
3shirts
I got Fruit Ninja free through Amazon’s appstore free-app-of-the-day but actually found it quite boring. It’s fun for a few minutes but had little replay value for me. I was pleased it was free put it that way.
Pete_UK
You, Mr. Sebastian, are trolling; get off my console.
tom_lord
In a recent episode of Pulse on the US PSn Store, they had a chart section and Angry Birds topped the list, it’s certainly shifted a huge amount of units on the PSN and the developers quotes are just narrow minded (or taken out of context) when so many people have downloaded it on PS3
dazluss
My kids like playing it on the PS3 so thanks to the devs for getting a fun little game on a big screen for just a couple of quid.
The android version is free, the Iphone is 59p, the PS3/PSP version is just a couple of quid we’re not talking amssive money here guys.
kivi95
When I play i only play it on the psp.
jacklum
Maybe it’s from people deleting it then re-downloading it to see if it’s been patched yet.
Crocadillian
I find myself conflicted when looking at articles like this. Although the game is good and it deserves it’s popularity, the amount of porting and milking the developers are doing with it is kind of sad. They seem like competent developers, why not develop the games market further by creating more successful games for it?
Shakugan
AB PS3 version sucks. Everytime you complete a level or restart, it just load 10-20 sec…
squashme
it wont be the most downloaded game on PSN maybe the most downloaded mini yeah but through all games on PSN
as isnt Wipeout HD the most downloaded and best selling game on PSN I remember Sony saying a while back just after it was released has any title manged to dethrown it yet ?
deadwelsh
Didn’t even know this was on PSN. Think i’ll stick to the free android version still