Angry Birds Exec: Console Games Are Dying

RedEaredSlider writes: Angry Birds marketing lead Peter Vesterbacka went on the offensive today against his console counterparts, arguing that the model pursued by companies like Nintendo is "dying."

In a panel discussion at the South by Southwest Interact vice conference in Austin, Texas Vesterbacka said that innovation wasn't coming from large development firms like EA and Ubisoft, but from smaller, more nimble developers like his own.

Vesterbacka also pointed to the major concern over the price model for console games. Compared to mobile titles like Angry Birds that run for 99 cents, games on large consoles hover around fifty dollars. Still, the executive did admit that the business model for mobile games had yet to be completely figured out.

As I understand it, PC games are dying too.

[FlapHappy]

Or so many 'experts' have been saying since what...the original Playstation? Movies were killed by the TV too. Oh, and most new console games (not including DLC) cost a heck of a lot more to make. I'm sure the console industry will adapt when it needs to.

Marketing lead declares competing market is dead

[barrtender]

And?

Incestuous relationships will produce crap.

[EmperorOfCanada]

The big boys like EA have too close a relationship with the console makers; so what incentive do the console makers have to put out good tools to allow nimble tiny people from accessing their consoles. I can't imagine the cool games that would be available if high school kids had long had access to both the tools to produce games and the method to market them. Sure these tools are sort of coming out now but that is only at the end of the life cycle of the various consoles in an attempt to extend them. But E