Mobile platforms are growing though but no one has ‘figured out’ how to model it properly. Vesterbacka dismisses ‘casual game slur’ - can be ‘hardcore’.
Angry Birds has now had over 100 million downloads with both a free and a 99c version available. ”No one has figured it out yet,” admitted Vesterbacka, referring to the mobile gaming business model. Console gaming is dying as time moves on.
People can be just as sucked into so-called ‘casual games’ as any other he claimed, saying there isn’t really such a thing as a ‘casual game’ just like there aren’t any ‘casual movies’. Some have been so engrossed they’ve chucked their phone in frustration.
Are console games dying out? Does ‘casual’ exist in the gaming space? Perhaps it’s some elitism shinning through or polite code for shovelware?
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