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Aw man, how I hate guys who make one game, are successful and act like they understand the whole industry.
There is no formula, there is no console dying (LOL) and I can bet my left testicle that his next game won't be a huge success.
Just imagine a world where you can only get games like Angry Birds. I'd stop playing immediately and look for another hobby.
Aw man, how I hate guys who make one game, are successful and act like they understand the whole industry.
There is no formula, there is no console dying (LOL) and I can bet my left testicle that his next game won't be a huge success.
Just imagine a world where you can only get games like Angry Birds. I'd stop playing immediately and look for another hobby.
He could be right, maybe people perfer "on-the-go" more. Personally, since I started working I just don't have as much time for console games..going to pick up a 3ds as soon as I can
I'm fucking sick of Rovio acting like they know everything about the industry just because they made ONE successful game. I bet Epic or BioWare or Rockstar or Team Meat or The Behemoth or Gaijin Games would disagree with you arrogant cunts. If you couldn't tell Rovio are starting to really piss me off!
I like how this guy thinks he knows something.
Lucky for us he isn't in charge of shit except a one hit wonder.
Lucky for us he isn't in charge of shit except a one hit wonder.
Say what you will, he's got money in the bank. I think we're moving towards an open-console future, where consoles are just PCs that anyone can make games for.
From the amount of money Angry Birds made, you can't deny there is a lot of untapped potential in the marketplace and business structure. Apple's shitty store that's been designed to ensure maximum money for themselves and no one else, and Google's hands-free approach are obviously not perfect, but the money speaks for itself.
From the amount of money Angry Birds made, you can't deny there is a lot of untapped potential in the marketplace and business structure. Apple's shitty store that's been designed to ensure maximum money for themselves and no one else, and Google's hands-free approach are obviously not perfect, but the money speaks for itself.
The joke that didn't make this article: "Is that $42 million in venture capital in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?"
Guys, Rovio hasn't made ONE superultraoverhyped game.
Buy Angry Birds: Seasons in the App Store, now!
Buy Angry Birds: Seasons in the App Store, now!
What do you expect of a company that - after one hit - wants Angry Birds to be bigger than Mickey Mouse ?
Don't get me wrong, rising costs are a huge problem for future consoles, but considering he admits that that no one has figured out a business model for mobile gaming (after a few years I might add) I'd say a better message would be "We're all screwed!".
Don't get me wrong, rising costs are a huge problem for future consoles, but considering he admits that that no one has figured out a business model for mobile gaming (after a few years I might add) I'd say a better message would be "We're all screwed!".
I certainly hope that this closed console system dies why the fact should anyone limit the amount of free updates/content for games.
I would've also thrown in the jab that Angry Birds essentially copied a popular flash game and dressed it up in slightly higher production values.
@Starrtnight I gotta say I kinda agree with you and kinda with him...once you start playing downloadable games and getting alot of content for so little price it's kind of hard to go back to paying $60 same with hand helds and you can play them on the go so that just helps prove his case a little more.
Consoles require too much effort to upgrade?
Since when? I mean, the whole point of a console is it doesn't need upgrades, PS3 and 360 don't even force the HDTV upgrade on you. To which upgrades are we referring here?
Since when? I mean, the whole point of a console is it doesn't need upgrades, PS3 and 360 don't even force the HDTV upgrade on you. To which upgrades are we referring here?
guy's full of shit
really Angry Birds is a fun time waster and all, but horrible would a future where the only games were simple 2D cellphone games be? thankfully I think that's a very implausible future
really Angry Birds is a fun time waster and all, but horrible would a future where the only games were simple 2D cellphone games be? thankfully I think that's a very implausible future
WTF?
I'd say at least half of the people who bought Angry Birds (the fucking epic masterpiece of gaming history /jk) only play it on the train/bus/car on their way home to play real games on their real consoles.
Pisses me off when people make one game, which get's weird freak success and talk like they know how shit works now.
You don't know shit.
Take you're silly little phone game and go put it next to Sony or Microsoft or Nintendo's fucking gaming EMPIRES and then try to tell them that they are dying and you are the future.
Fucking idiot.
Herp derp I made a physics game and it sold millions of copies because a lot of them went out for FREE.
Fuck off.
I'd say at least half of the people who bought Angry Birds (the fucking epic masterpiece of gaming history /jk) only play it on the train/bus/car on their way home to play real games on their real consoles.
Pisses me off when people make one game, which get's weird freak success and talk like they know how shit works now.
You don't know shit.
Take you're silly little phone game and go put it next to Sony or Microsoft or Nintendo's fucking gaming EMPIRES and then try to tell them that they are dying and you are the future.
Fucking idiot.
Herp derp I made a physics game and it sold millions of copies because a lot of them went out for FREE.
Fuck off.
He doesn't understand the industry, doesn't understand consoles, doesn't understand history and doesn't understand videogame fans. If we all believed what a game making person said, we'd all still be squealing about how awesome Daikatana was. Fuck off, you one hit wonder. Be happy you had that. Angry Birds is so last year anyways. :)
Bah! Nothing is dead yet. Right now there is an ebb and flow between PC, consoles, and mobile gaming but the thing that needs to be said is that there is some cross over between the three crowds. Not one of them can claim however to be the future of gaming. While its possible to say that mobile gaming is the newest, biggest field, thos edevices are not built for gaming. They are built with other priorities in mind.
PC and mobile gaming is getting a huge shot from the casual gaming crowd. If you look at the Wii there are tons of shovelware games out there for it. PC and mobile gaming have the same issue. Lots of low cost games being made for little in comparison to normal big time game producers. I agree with a lot of people here when they call "bullshit!" to this guys statement. You show that you can make consecutive and diversive games from your one hit and show that they will only play your game in high numbers on one platform and we'll talk. :p
PC and mobile gaming is getting a huge shot from the casual gaming crowd. If you look at the Wii there are tons of shovelware games out there for it. PC and mobile gaming have the same issue. Lots of low cost games being made for little in comparison to normal big time game producers. I agree with a lot of people here when they call "bullshit!" to this guys statement. You show that you can make consecutive and diversive games from your one hit and show that they will only play your game in high numbers on one platform and we'll talk. :p
Bah! Nothing is dead yet. Right now there is an ebb and flow between PC, consoles, and mobile gaming but the thing that needs to be said is that there is some cross over between the three crowds. Not one of them can claim however to be the future of gaming. While its possible to say that mobile gaming is the newest, biggest field, thos edevices are not built for gaming. They are built with other priorities in mind.
PC and mobile gaming is getting a huge shot from the casual gaming crowd. If you look at the Wii there are tons of shovelware games out there for it. PC and mobile gaming have the same issue. Lots of low cost games being made for little in comparison to normal big time game producers. I agree with a lot of people here when they call "bullshit!" to this guys statement. You show that you can make consecutive and diversive games from your one hit and show that they will only play your game in high numbers on one platform and we'll talk. :p
PC and mobile gaming is getting a huge shot from the casual gaming crowd. If you look at the Wii there are tons of shovelware games out there for it. PC and mobile gaming have the same issue. Lots of low cost games being made for little in comparison to normal big time game producers. I agree with a lot of people here when they call "bullshit!" to this guys statement. You show that you can make consecutive and diversive games from your one hit and show that they will only play your game in high numbers on one platform and we'll talk. :p
He is fucking clownshoes retarded. Angry birds isn't really all that great or even original. It's like the folks who make Farmville saying they are teh future! I look at them like the fools they are. They sound like the idiots in the comic industry as soon as Image launched and other companies were throwing gimmicks on covers saying Marvel and DC are dead and the lenticular polybagged nightmares were the be all end all. Everyone saw how that ended. Crashed and burned and never fully recovered. (it certainly fucked my starting career among many many others)
Consoles will always be around in some form. Console games are a separate beast to the shlocky knock off flash games ported to phones and whatever else that have people with short attention spans and nonchalant judgement to chuck a dollar at. There's room for everything as long as it sells. Declaring shit dead is retarded on the face of it.
This man is a moron.
Consoles will always be around in some form. Console games are a separate beast to the shlocky knock off flash games ported to phones and whatever else that have people with short attention spans and nonchalant judgement to chuck a dollar at. There's room for everything as long as it sells. Declaring shit dead is retarded on the face of it.
This man is a moron.
He is fucking clownshoes retarded. Angry birds isn't really all that great or even original. It's like the folks who make Farmville saying they are teh future! I look at them like the fools they are. They sound like the idiots in the comic industry as soon as Image launched and other companies were throwing gimmicks on covers saying Marvel and DC are dead and the lenticular polybagged nightmares were the be all end all. Everyone saw how that ended. Crashed and burned and never fully recovered. (it certainly fucked my starting career among many many others)
Consoles will always be around in some form. Console games are a separate beast to the shlocky knock off flash games ported to phones and whatever else that have people with short attention spans and nonchalant judgement to chuck a dollar at. There's room for everything as long as it sells. Declaring shit dead is retarded on the face of it.
This man is a moron.
Consoles will always be around in some form. Console games are a separate beast to the shlocky knock off flash games ported to phones and whatever else that have people with short attention spans and nonchalant judgement to chuck a dollar at. There's room for everything as long as it sells. Declaring shit dead is retarded on the face of it.
This man is a moron.
He is fucking clownshoes retarded. Angry birds isn't really all that great or even original. It's like the folks who make Farmville saying they are teh future! I look at them like the fools they are. They sound like the idiots in the comic industry as soon as Image launched and other companies were throwing gimmicks on covers saying Marvel and DC are dead and the lenticular polybagged nightmares were the be all end all. Everyone saw how that ended. Crashed and burned and never fully recovered. (it certainly fucked my starting career among many many others)
Consoles will always be around in some form. Console games are a separate beast to the shlocky knock off flash games ported to phones and whatever else that have people with short attention spans and nonchalant judgement to chuck a dollar at. There's room for everything as long as it sells. Declaring shit dead is retarded on the face of it.
This man is a moron.
Consoles will always be around in some form. Console games are a separate beast to the shlocky knock off flash games ported to phones and whatever else that have people with short attention spans and nonchalant judgement to chuck a dollar at. There's room for everything as long as it sells. Declaring shit dead is retarded on the face of it.
This man is a moron.
Oh and it probably bears mentioning that if Angry Birds wanted to make as much money as Call of Duty Black Ops it would have to sell over one billion copies. You know, 1/7 of the global population. Yeah. It's great that 42 million people are willing to throw down a buck on your game, but that isn't an indication of dying console/pc games when ~25 million are still willing to spend $60 on a console game.
Wow, I can't believe this guy would actually like to see video games decline into this garbage. If Angry Birrds was priced at anything more then $3.00, I wouldn't have bought it. I can probably get higher quality games for free on Newgrounds. I only paid the dollar because it's mobile. Look, while I agree that some console aren't worth $60 price, that is still totally up to the purchaser and I would rather buy one $60 console game then sixty $1 app games.
@SexualChocolate
They didn't even make the physics engine that runs the game.
Also, what a huge douchebag. There are a lot of flashgames better than Angry birds and those cheap time fillers can never replace full fledged games.It's like saying that movies are dying because tv shows are cheaper to make and free to consume.
They didn't even make the physics engine that runs the game.
Also, what a huge douchebag. There are a lot of flashgames better than Angry birds and those cheap time fillers can never replace full fledged games.It's like saying that movies are dying because tv shows are cheaper to make and free to consume.
There needs to be a seperation, for the benefit of generalizing fuckwits like this, between GAMING and Time wasting.
Seriously, we tried calling it casual, but we still get lumped together.
i think it's wrong that "Gaming" is everything, from the Final Fantasy's and professional Starcraft to the Farmville and Angry birds.
Really there should be 2 seperate markets..
Gamers - people who play $1 time wastes like Angry Birds, or farmville. The plethora of shovelware on Wii. (It kills me to give up "our" name to "them" but the two need to be seperated, or fucking idiots like this will keep saying retarded shit like this)
Digital Entertainment Enthusiasts, the people who like to play more deep, engaging games, the professional Starcraft players, the hardcore Halo players, the gamers who like a story and a universe and detailed gameplay mechanics to play with. - The people who keep the multi-billion dollar, fastest growing digital entertainmnet market alive.
Two very different markets, only seen as one market by fucking idiots like this prick.
Seriously, we tried calling it casual, but we still get lumped together.
i think it's wrong that "Gaming" is everything, from the Final Fantasy's and professional Starcraft to the Farmville and Angry birds.
Really there should be 2 seperate markets..
Gamers - people who play $1 time wastes like Angry Birds, or farmville. The plethora of shovelware on Wii. (It kills me to give up "our" name to "them" but the two need to be seperated, or fucking idiots like this will keep saying retarded shit like this)
Digital Entertainment Enthusiasts, the people who like to play more deep, engaging games, the professional Starcraft players, the hardcore Halo players, the gamers who like a story and a universe and detailed gameplay mechanics to play with. - The people who keep the multi-billion dollar, fastest growing digital entertainmnet market alive.
Two very different markets, only seen as one market by fucking idiots like this prick.
i'm a fan of angry birds but this absurd statement just makes me want to release the mighty eagle on his stick and stone pedestal...
Angry Birds was a rip off of Crush The Castle, among others..
I won't trust him until he helps create an original title.
I won't trust him until he helps create an original title.
Y'know, I like Angry Birds. It's a fun, easily approachable little game to play whenever you have a couple of minutes to kill. But Peter Versterbacka is an idiot if he thinks this is the wave of the future. If that's the case, then I think I'm going to have to give up my hobby of playing games. I mean, who the hell wants to play nothing but a bunch of mini games?
Don't get cocky just cause you made one successful game. A clone of previously existing games, might I add.
Don't get cocky just cause you made one successful game. A clone of previously existing games, might I add.
Also, cutscenes are stupid. So is "Final Boss" and "Game Over".
Why even make these stupid, pointless comments? You're just convincing us not to buy your cheap boring tat.
Why even make these stupid, pointless comments? You're just convincing us not to buy your cheap boring tat.
LOL@both Nintendo and Rovio. They're missing the big picture. There is room for both types of games. I, for example like to play PC/console games with a good story/narrative and there are MANY just like me and as long as there is demand there will be a market. Cuz that's the way capitalism works, demand=€.
Yet this generation we have the fastest selling console of all time the Wii. Which I do not play much to be honest but if fastest selling product of its kind ever = dying well played I suppose.
The gaming vernacular coined the perfect phrase for this guy months back: DICKTITS (thanks Bulletstorm, you did gamers a wonderful service with that one ...which also applies to a certain Mr. Kotick and Mr. Pachter whilst we're on the subject ;) )
I'll give him the fact that console games cost too much, but the platform his company develops for produces a yearly update hardware update with minor increments in software costing the consumer $300 - $400 a pop. Lucky for him, people flock too it like flies to shit.
I agree with what he's saying, and I've been saying the same thing for years now. We're headed for a crash. Millions of dollars are being poured into these games only for them to be barely worth a rental. Most games of today do not require the player to have any skill and aren't challenging, and thus are not rewarding. They also lack replay value, and thus there is no reason to own them.
People only care about these games because they're fascinated with the fancy HD graphics, and also because online play is still new to many people. If these games had N64 graphics, no one would buy them, because people aren't buying these games for the gameplay. But sadly, the novelty of playing online will wear off soon, and the graphics of the next generation of consoles will be much less impressive than those previously. And at the same time, the prices for games and consoles is rising. Doesn't take a genius to figure out where we're going.
People only care about these games because they're fascinated with the fancy HD graphics, and also because online play is still new to many people. If these games had N64 graphics, no one would buy them, because people aren't buying these games for the gameplay. But sadly, the novelty of playing online will wear off soon, and the graphics of the next generation of consoles will be much less impressive than those previously. And at the same time, the prices for games and consoles is rising. Doesn't take a genius to figure out where we're going.
I like how making one game that's basically a rip off of one of the oldest computer games makes you an expert on gaming innovation and the future.
Clearly this guy is mad and wrong, but what a cool title to have "Angry Birds Boss" its alot cooler than my job title "House Painter"
That's a rather bold, unfounded statement. /shrug
I think there is room in the market for portable gaming and console gaming and that people want both.
I kinda hate silly statements like this.
I also hate pollen.
I think there is room in the market for portable gaming and console gaming and that people want both.
I kinda hate silly statements like this.
I also hate pollen.
i'm sure ANY game publisher could release a game on Angry Birds terms and shift a bajillion copies.
$1 or whatever on the most popular platform.
Free on other platforms.
"Oh look at me, I made a few mil and shifted billions of copies!"
I hate to use it as an expamle, but it's the closest thing to a casual proper game, but CoD, imagine if that shit was $5 for argument's sake on eggsbawks and FREE on PS3 - I'm pretty sure it would sell more copies than Angry birds.
$1 or whatever on the most popular platform.
Free on other platforms.
"Oh look at me, I made a few mil and shifted billions of copies!"
I hate to use it as an expamle, but it's the closest thing to a casual proper game, but CoD, imagine if that shit was $5 for argument's sake on eggsbawks and FREE on PS3 - I'm pretty sure it would sell more copies than Angry birds.
God i hope not. If the future is moderately entertaining games that look & sound like crap and have to be played in mobiles, you can count me out.
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