LL writes: For a long time now, spectators of the industry have been claiming that mobile gaming will be the force of reckoning to shatter apart the foundations of core gaming. Some analysts have placed the blame for falling EA stock on such a force. When the company went up for sale in August, it was claimed that the reason was a fall in core game consumption caused by the growth of the mobile gaming industry. The problem I have with such a claim is that there are already obvious reasons for why EA would be suffering. Reasons such as a poor PR and dropping quality in video games that they’ve been producing in the last generation of gaming. Not only that but mobile gaming simply doesn’t provide an ample threat to core gaming. Allow me to explain.
According to Rovio, the redundancies are due to Angry Birds Dream Blast "not... performing as expected."
The Japan-based entertainment conglomerate is expected to pay about $1 billion for Rovio Entertainment.
If you want to remain relevant you need a mobile powerhouse. MS got Minecraft, maybe King soon, T2 got Zynga, EA got Glu, Tencent got most of the other big ones.
Sony is likely looking for one too or they will be left behind.
Sony already owns the #2 highest grossing mobile game ever in Fate/Grand Order.
That game is close to Genshin Impact levels of monthly revenue.
Well angry birds still makes money so it’s not a dead horse. They just need another hit.
Looks like something MS would grab. I wont be surprised some how ms gets Sega with this included magically.
We could fund more games like Sonic Mania
We could buy the music rights back to Sonic 3
We could reboot some old franchises like Ristar, Shinobi, Gunstar Heroes or Golden Axe
...Nah. Angry Birds it is
Wait, have they even made anything since then? Thought they were a one-hit wonder lol.
I didn't know they did a bunch of stuff prior to Angry Birds:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...
Pretty much everything since has been a spin off. Now maybe Sega will make Angry Chaos or something similar.
Mojang only made one game and Microsoft still purchased them for $4 billion
Sometimes one property is all you need especially when it’s lucrative
Rovio should be embarrassed over the way it's handled Angry Birds.
$60 games vs $1-$15 games?
Though ironically, by catering to the iSO game market for potential cheap and easy cash big publishers compromise the quality of console games, lowering justification to buy them.