Welcome to the Wednesday Debate, where we take issues in the games and tech world so big you can see 'em from space and attempt to set the world to rights by arguing about them right here, on the internet, where everyone can see. This week in the Wednesday Debate, Postdesk writers Jack Bromley and Grant Howitt thrash it out over whether mobile games are good enough for serious gamers to bother playing. Jack is arguing for the statement, and Grant’s arguing against. It may surprise you to discover that neither of them have any formal training in the field of debate.
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
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Rovio should be embarrassed over the way it's handled Angry Birds.
I upgraded to a Galaxy s2 the other day, and one of the free games I got with it was Dead Space. I was quite gobsmacked with how well it looked and played. It opened my eyes tbh, here was a game that looked and played like a console game.
It was still a bit limited compared to its console counterparts, but for a mobile game it was light years away from what I was used to playing on my previous phone.
It showed me that progress is rapidly increasing in terms of what mobile phone games can achieve.
In a few years who knows what they will be capable of. I'd like to think that console gaming will be around for a long time, but thinking realistically, I don't think it will.
The time of the mobile phone as a true gaming device may be coming much sooner than many may think.
Mobile phones need a physical controller or no ty.