Sega Sammy has of Indignant Birds developer Rovio, formally plunking down a cool $776 million to amass the corporate. The deal was however each firms needed to soar by way of some Sega’s hoping the acquisition will give them a stronger foothold within the cellular house, regardless of the golden days of Indignant Birds fandom
Nevertheless, Rovio isn’t just the one IP. Past Indignant Birds and its many spinoff video games, the corporate is understood for the match-three puzzler Sugar Blast and the narrative thriller title Small City Murders. Okay, these aren’t precisely high-profile IPs, however Sega will get one thing past recognizable franchise titles with this buy. It will get a ready-made infrastructure for creating, publishing and promoting cellular video games. This implies it may possibly hit the bottom working when making cellular titles based mostly by itself IPs, like Sonic, Samba de Amigo, Persona, Soccer Supervisor and others. There’s additionally a whole bunch of older video games simply ready for cellular ports.
Again in April, CEO Haruki Satomi stated that “the cellular gaming market has particularly excessive potential, and it has been Sega’s long-term aim to speed up its enlargement on this discipline.”
Past Sega’s pre-existing franchises, the corporate will doubtless proceed with extra Indignant Birds cellular video games. Regardless of shedding a few of that late 2000s luster, Indignant Birds remains to be a reasonably sizzling commodity, with associated motion pictures, TV exhibits and even a Perhaps pairing up these irritated avians with a sure blue hedgehog will convey the one-time cellular smash again into the collective consciousness. Now, who’s up for flinging Knuckles right into a bunch of pigs?