According to one of the fathers of ubiquitious, insanely profitable mobile game Angry Birds, console gaming is dying.
Speaking at the South By Southwest Interactive conference, Peter Vesterbacka, who leads business development at Rovio Games, said innovation has moved into the mobile gaming space, because mobile game companies are more "nimble." Vesterbacka wasn't fond of the price tag of traditional console games either, pointing out that $40 to $50 is a lot of money for a game that is hard to update.
It's almost as if Vesterbacka's analysis is a direct response to Saturo Iwata's words at the 2011 Game Developers Conference. Iwata made the point that mobile game distributors have no vested interest in creating quality products, and that the industry is fracturing so much that developers may soon have a problem making enough to get by and keep making games.
To paraphrase Iwata's views, Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony all live or die by how good the games are on its system, where a distributor like Apple, say, really doesn't care, as long as there are a lot of little games available for their phones.
What do you think? Who's right here? Are mobile games more innovative than console games?
Source: Venture Beat
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nvserg
well Peter Vesterbacka,
im not going to play your angry bird and support it just because you said that. Angry Birds is dying anyways =o). what a jurk, who does he think he is!
GamebustaZX
hahaha come on you put out anrgy birds and then think console gaming is dead check yourself
Flagge
Console will die just like PC did... wait a minute
Mallhew
I have to disagree with this, there's always going to be a huge market for console games, even if they are ridiculously expensive, mostly because they have more play value and frankly look so much better. I play games like angry birds and I constantly find that they lose their original charm rather quickly because each game is just based off of one concept. They may be easier to update, but when your entire game is based off of one good idea there isn't much room to maneuver.
macross2012
Ok so this guy makes 1 popular game and he is now the GAME GURU of what is selling and what isnt now? WOW I guess all the sales on console games must be a lie.
This guy is a moron.. Glad I never bought his game
AngelsandDemons
Console games are dieing because this developer wants to promote his I-Pad game...uh huh?...bump this post.
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