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Angry Birds Boss Claims The Console-Pocalypse is Nigh

Rovio’s Peter Versterbacka recently made a pretty bold statement, so bold it deserves to be in bold. Console games, according to him, are “dying“.

Speaking at the South by Southwest interactive conference, Versterbacka claims that the problems lie in cost and difficulty in upgrading console games. He said that when it comes to releasing new content, companies like Rovio are far more “nimble”. He also questioned charging $40 to $50 for a game that is difficult to upgrade.

Personally, this sort of thing is boring me. Just because one type of gaming is on the up doesn’t mean the other is dying. I guess I have to cover my bases just in case he is right, so viva la mobile games!

via: Desctructoid & Venturebeat

Comments

Phoshi Says:
March 14th, 2011 at 1:20 pm   (Reply)

Hang on.
PC gaming is dying, console gaming is dying, and people have been saying mobile gaming is dying since just about forever, and the success of a few titles hasn’t changed that. So… damnit, I quite liked video games.

Kyle Heimbigner Says:
March 14th, 2011 at 1:23 pm   (Reply)

I can see mobile gaming taking the lead in a few years but there will always be a demand for AAA games that push graphics and technology to the limit. I think people want their Call of Duty games alongside their Angry Bird like titles. So long as there is a demand then game developers will find a way to deliver it.

Ben Stead Says:
March 14th, 2011 at 2:21 pm   (Reply)

@Phoshi:Their is still gaming journalism!

@Kyle Heimbigner: Hmmmm, I don’t even like to think theirs a lead to be had. I just wish everyone could get along. Mobile games will never out-profit mainstream games. The attention angry birds has been receiving is down to yes it’s success but also the whole novelty of actually being successful.

March 14th, 2011 at 5:18 pm   (Reply)

I agree with you Ben, videogame consoles are not going to die off anytime soon. Social,mobile gaming is at an apex right now but it’s “throwaway gaming” where there is no real commitment and relies on new hawtness every other day.

There is a significant segment of the market that will always want Ninty’s latest lunchbox, and the Sony PS3-ologists, a group I have a little experience with, would buy a PS4 even if Sony took out features, and raised the price…Wait they did that already *sneers at pspGO

Daniel Corrigan Says:
March 22nd, 2011 at 5:41 pm   (Reply)

Hmm. No, it probably isn’t. Rovio are hardly going to be the ones to kill it anyway. Despite the annoying success of Angry Birds, which is worth about an hour of your time and absolutely no more than that, I don’t think it’s the future of the medium.

I think the future is people paying less money as they realise that they don’t actually need to pay for entertainment any more. That just means that the gradient will become smoother, with more cheaper triple A, more short budget titles, more games-as-services, more PWYW titles and so on. Maybe that’s just wishful thinking. We just have so many ways of bringing in revenue that it seems silly to keep WHAT THE FUCK AM I STILL TYPING FOR I LINKED THE VIDEO ALREADY


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