Angry Birds stretches its wings and swoops in on the board game market

Re:Angry Birds stretches its wings and swoops in on the boar... by Tichy on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @09:18AM (#2115841)

An interesting bubble, this Angry Birds phenomenon. And people seem to be starved to buy things, all the time.

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Re:Angry Birds stretches its wings and swoops in on the boar... by mechanical_fish on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @09:50AM (#2115953)

The secret is the pricing. Back in the old days I spent more money in the first hour of my Magic: The Gathering habit than my wife and I have spent on Angry Birds. Of course, MtG required printing and shipping physical cards.

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Re:Angry Birds stretches its wings and swoops in on the boar... by Tichy on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @10:17AM (#2116039)

Still, even 0.99$ or whatever it costs is not nothing. I know people who have racked up several hundred EUR in App shopping. It adds up.

And people don't buy every game that is cheap.

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Re:Angry Birds stretches its wings and swoops in on the boar... by lenley on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @10:56AM (#2116168)

It's a great model the game play itself was already a well-proven concept.

http://armorgames.com/play/3614/crush-the-castle There are dozens of these extremely popular flash trebuchet games.

I think Angry Birds nailed the promotional loop part -- the game play itself is really similar to existing popular games.

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