Der er tilsyneladende ingen grænser for hvad Peter Vesterbacka og Rovio kan med deres Angry Birds. Vesterbacka kunne tidligere i dag i Helsinki fortælle, at Angry Birds nu er blevet downloaded mere end en halv mia. gange (via Reuters). Det er sket på under to år. Spillet blev, i sin oprindelige form, udgivet den 11. december 2009 og har siden ligget i toppen af samtlige salgslister på både iOS & Android-devices. Rovei har siden lanceret bl.a. tøjdyr i samme tema med stort set samme succes som selve spillet.
Mobile gaming firm Rovio said on Wednesday its hit game Angry Birds had reached a record 500 million downloads in less than two years since its launch.
“It’s more than any game ever before,” Rovio’s marketing chief Peter Vesterbacka told a conference in Helsinki.
Unlike most mobile-game crazes, Angry Birds — in which players use a slingshot to attack pigs who steal the birds’ eggs — has stayed at the top of the charts since it was launched for Apple’s iPhone on Dec 11, 2009.
Vesterbacka said the company’s next aim was to reach one billion fans globally, on devices including mobile phones and computers.

























