Gaming News So Small It Gets a Second Thread

[Neon Ignition]

Has the late 90's CEO returned or something? Man, what a waste of a billion

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You’d be surprised at the amount of people who play absolutely rubbish ‘games’ on their phones and tablets. From experience a large portion of the public don’t really ‘game’ but use these Angry Bird type on the go to way of filling time and distracting themselves when they are waiting around or procrastinating - likely the latter.

It’s interesting how they have made a market from idleness and procrastination… Born from modern day lifestyles, like waiting in line; wasting time; being indecisive, etc…

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[Neon Ignition]

It's got to be in decline though? Not mobile gaming but the Angry Birds franchise? Do they have anything else that would suggest they'll do well in future years?

[fishbowlhead]

Looking forward to them being sold off for £40 in a year when the franchise and their stocks crash.

[112]

I think the many different avenues of milking Angry Birds over the years, in movies, gaming, merchandise has made the franchise a household thing with children - so I think they are around for a while. Who knows, they may be the next Mickey Mouse, where households will have at least something angry birds related for future generations.

Who would have thought that it would be such a cash cow.

I am not someone who is in touch with anything Angry Birds, other than what I see advertised on media from time to time.

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[Neon Ignition]

[briareos_kerensky]

The Sega/Rovio deal is not worth 1B but "only" 774 million USD.

https://www.gematsu.com/2023/04/sega-to-acquire-rovio-for-e706-million

[Neon Ignition]

They made $25m in 2022... reading their Wii page makes for a distinct air of it being another bad Sega financial move

[Cassius_Smoke]

I'm amazed they have that kind of money to throw around.

[Yakumo]

I'm amazed they have that kind of money to throw around.

Same here.
Rather than buying ****, hire some talent and get to work on reviving the amazing back catalogue they have.

[Asura]

The Sega/Rovio thing is utterly bizarre.

[briareos_kerensky]

Same here.
Rather than buying ****, hire some talent and get to work on reviving the amazing back catalogue they have.

That can be unfortunately said about all old Japanese developers.

[fuse]

Speaking of big franchises and questionable mobile games...

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[Lebowski]

The Sega/Rovio thing is utterly bizarre.

Rovio recently were in financial trouble as a company as it hasn't been able to better the first game they brought out, it got so bad for them that they delisted the first Angry Birds game as it was their biggest competition to newer games and its cheap 99p price point with no adds or micro transactions made it a one and done sale.

The only new thing Rovio seems to be able to do is angry birds but with loads of micro transactions, or mediocre and over complicated games using characters from the angry birds games that don't have the same simple appeal of fling this as that until you win.

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/rovio-delists-original-angry-birds-due-to-impact-on-free-to-play-games#:~:text=Rovio%20has%20announced%20that%20the%20re-release%20of%20the,%22the%20game%27s%20impact%20on%20our%20wider%20games%20portfolio.%22

[Asura]

What cracks me up is how pride comes before a fall. I remember when the Rovio CEO was saying "we don't like it when people call us a video games company; we don't make video games, we're in the entertainment industry"I love it when I see developers who are weirdly embarrassed that they make videogames.