Angry Birds is top-selling PSN game of the year so far
The PS3 is a powerful gaming rig, featuring tons of great downloadable exclusives, like PixelJunk Shooter 2. So no wonder the top-selling game on the PlayStation Network this year is... Angry Birds? Seriously?
The PS3 is a powerful gaming rig, featuring tons of great downloadable exclusives, like PixelJunk Shooter 2. So no wonder the top-selling game on the PlayStation Network this year is... Angry Birds? Seriously?
Casual games and retro re-releases have been dominating the sales charts, showing that PS3 gamers aren't as hardcore as you might think. Or, maybe they just don't have modern cell phones to play these games on.
Top 10 PlayStation Store games in 2011 (so far):
- Angry Birds
- Tetris
- Final Fantasy VII (PSone)
- Pac-Man Championship Edition DX
- Plants vs Zombies
- Castle Crashers
- Resident Evil 2 (PSone)
- Final Fantasy XI (PSone)
- Modern Combat: Dominion
- Battlefield 1943
It's shocking to see so many mobile games dominate the list. Also, could mainstream gamers have purchased Modern Combat because it sounds so much like Modern Warfare? If so, Gameloft's devious copycat-cloning seems to have worked.
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replyAndrew Yoon posted a new article, Angry Birds is top-selling PSN game of the year so far.
The PS3 is a powerful gaming rig, featuring tons of great downloadable exclusives, like PixelJunk Shooter 2. So no wonder the top-selling game on the PlayStation Network this year is... Angry Birds? Seriously?-
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like 2008 or even 2007, but they still sell it. It could be the best selling game of the year.
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I wonder if those who buy the games already know what they want instead of discovering it while randomly browsing the Playstation Store. I mean, the only time I browse the thing is when I know what I want to get. There's no ads or anything noting "hey this new hot shit was just released!" It's just poor visibility even for new titles and this list kind of points to that.
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I feel a little dead inside.
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I wouldn't feel so bad, shackers. They've somehow managed to get their game into the pop culture like few others, so there are probably a lot of semi-gamers who figure they need to have played it, and a lot of others (bought it mostly for blu-ray or just CoD or whatever) who get it just because they've seen it on TV so it must be good.
Hell I own a copy or two of it thanks to my wife, but only on mobile devices where it makes a lot more sense. -
i kind of blame the fact that not a lot of games have demos...
same reason i don't buy a lot of stuff on my android and one reason i love windows phone 7. trials for every damn thing you download (i think)
i'm a huge gamer and i tend to buy things if the price is right and the trailer really wows me. But I know not everyone has spare 20 bucks on their account to just throw away and gamble it on a game they've never heard of before. -
So much gaming elitism out in the world (and on the Shack) lately.
Casual gaming is not a bad thing It brings more people, and more money, into gaming. That means more opportunities for game developers to get their foot in the door. Today's Angry Birds developer could use that experience to go get a job at iD and make Quake 5.
There is no reason any of us should feel threatened by AB's massive success, or upset because [insert more worthy game] didn't sell nearly as well. So-called "hard core" gaming has always and will always be a smaller subset of the overall gaming community. Today's Angry Birds is no different than yesteryear's Pac-Man: A simple game that is easy to learn and requires almost no commitment to play and enjoy. This is how it's always been, and yet games for the "serious" players like us continue to be made.
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Really don't understand the love for Angry Birds, but whatever I guess!
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