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Angry Birds Creator: “Console Games Are Dying”

March 14, 2011 in News comments 15

Angry Birds creator Vesterbacka thinks that console systems are going the way of the dodo and that mobile games will reign supreme among the masses of people in the world.

It’s no secret that mobile gaming has managed to rise considerably over the past couple of years. With more companies being interested in mobile game development and more potential in today’s handsets than ever before, there are countless possibilites for creating standout, viable titles on phones. According to Peter Vesterback, head of Rovio Mobile and creator of Angry Birds, mobile gaming is on a meteoric rise, and console gaming is “dying.”
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    interpolred Mar 14, 11
    I'm not knocking the success of Angry Birds, but I wouldn't say mobile games will cause the death of console gaming. That's just over-the-top and ridiculous. If console games are dying, then I'm in trouble because I don't play mobile games at all.
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    Gamesta100 Mar 15, 11
    Mr Angry Birds creator, you sir are a complete *bleep*ing moron.I have heard some retarded crap in my day and holy hell that is one the dumbest things I have ever heard.
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    Daweii Mar 15, 11
    You may be able to dominate mobile gaming when your games are like $2 on iPhone and free on Android, but it takes a lot more to make full retail game. This guy will never know success until he manages to get 500,000+ to buy his game at $50. If the gaming industry was dying would games be breaking records week in week out for sales.. I mean Call of Duty whether you love it or hate it, is a $60 game and sells 14 million units every year.. He can only sell that many copies of Angry Birds because it's cheaper than a Hot Dog.
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    HisServant77 Mar 15, 11
    Well, it sounds like this guy is thinking similar to Sony, who believes that next gen, Portable Gaming will be the hot new thing.

    I however, disagree majorly.
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      Daweii Mar 15, 11
      Sony are only thinking that because they managed to get so much power into a handheld. They will change their tune once they see how powerful they can make the Playstation 4.
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        HisServant77 Mar 16, 11
        I don't know, Sony seem to constantly be thinking about the future. They almost always have been ones to introduce new forms of media into their gaming products, and they stick with it.

        Now, that's not to say they won't change their minds and create a PS4 (I sure hope they do), but I'm thinking they won't do so until halfway through the next gen's lifecycle, or even toward the end.
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      Shinobi_razor Mar 22, 11
      Sony must not keep up on competition because portable gaming is already pretty hot. they must not have heard of a little known system called the Nintendo DS who completely wiped the floor with the PSP and still remains the highest selling gaming system of all time next to PS2.
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        HisServant77 Mar 22, 11
        It may be popular, but it's certainly not the thing that will dominate the entire next gen. That's like saying PC gaming, because it's popular and widely done by so many, nullifies and puts other forms of gaming (console gaming) on the back burner.

        I know I'm not alone in saying that I don't want my main form of gaming to be in a handheld portable form factor. Portable gaming is more of something you'd do when you've got a few minutes to spare in between other things. Whereas gaming in general is something you want to really enjoy and immerse yourself in, sitting down, relaxing (or not), and having an interactive story unfold on a screen larger than a sheet of paper
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    Hideo1 Mar 15, 11
    I believe he's thinking in terms of mass-market gaming, i.e. the Wii sports and Call of Duty crowd.

    In which case, he's probably right.

    And I *bleep*ing hope it happens. I'd rather have low budget games which are more like Ico and Bioshock than a ton of high budget 'herp derp space marines guns kapow-pow-pow-dakka-dakka-dakka B00Bz mature games for mature gamers' that are currently slaying the market.
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    Solid Snake 4Life Mar 15, 11
    If thats the case Hideo then the future of gaming will be nothing more than generic minigame collections and shooters that repeat what MW did 3 years ago while claiming innovation.
    The future for games more like Ico or even Okami and Beyond Good and Evil lies on Xbox live and PSN, where low budget games are able to reach the mass core gamer audience along with the casual gamer. After all Limbo wouldn't of even got to the drawing board as a retail release, and games like Ico are coming out less and less due to the budget required to make a game like that only to have the general population spit upon your work.
    Hell if i had it completly my way the big companies would use their older now cheap technology to make games to tide us over till the next big thing. Having a GTA in the style of San Andreas but set in the location of GTA V would be a great way to tell a prequel of sorts on the cheap, and then sell it for 800 microsoft ponts on Live.
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      Hideo1 Mar 15, 11
      No, you misunderstand my point (though admittedly I skimmed this so I may be missing the overall point, but roll with me for a second).

      Console gaming dies, as in stops making money.

      All the space-marine game makers want money.

      They end up devving casual games for the money.

      Suddenly, console gaming is cheaper and more of a free-market for the creative and down-trodden.
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        HisServant77 Mar 16, 11
        I don't think that would make console gaming cheaper. At least not in the developing department, which is what I think you were talking about. The tech and the cost of developing doesn't decrease due to lack of use/popularity that would come from console gaming's demise. It relies mostly on availability of what is needed, and the difficulty of making the game.

        It sounds like it would be awesome if that happened, but I don't know. I don't think it'd happen that way. Then if it did, I can guarantee that when console gaming rises from the ashes and the devs see it again, it will be ambushed by mediocre games once again.
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          Hideo1 Mar 16, 11
          So they use less advanced tech and have smaller teams = dev-ing is cheaper. Less popularity means less sales means less money. Less money made on console gaming means less money spent on console gaming meaning funding is smaller.
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          HisServant77 Mar 16, 11
          Ah, you meant they would purposely have to use cheaper tech and such. Gotcha. I thought you meant the tech would get cheaper to use automatically or something.
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    Xeros the Slayer Mar 15, 11
    The guy has a horrible misunderstanding of what "casual" means in terms of gaming. It's not a matter of how into it someone is, but how the game itself is made and played.

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