The mobile gaming phenomenon that is Angry Birds pictured no signs of slowing down over the holidays, with Rovio’s Ville Heijari telling the Wall Street Journal’s AllThingsD blog the series racked up 6.5 million downloads on Christmas Daytime alone.
The number, which includes paid and free downloads of the original “Angry Birds” equally well equally sequels “Angry Birds Rio” and “Angry Birds Seasons,” is considerably above the 1 million download a daytime ordinary Rovio reported in June, only only a fall in the bucket compared to over 500 million entire downloads for the series since the foremost game was released only over two years ago.
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Though Rovio made dozens of mobile games ahead “Angry Birds,” the 55-person Finnish company is immediately abode near wholly by the one franchise’s massive success. Besides head sales and in-game ads, Rovio rakes in cash via licensed productions ranging from t-shirts and cookbooks to upcoming parks and movies thence much cash, in fact, that the fellowship is reportedly eyeing a public stock offer in the near future.
AllThingsD notes the 6.5 million Xmas downloads matches almost just the routine of smartphones activated that day, causing us to curiosity how many of those downloaders are simply getting the game again for a newly upgraded phone. In any case, the series has gone a success story practically unparalleled in the video game world, and one the society says it plans to follow up with new series releases in 2012.
