Sega Sammy has of Offended Birds developer Rovio, formally plunking down a cool $776 million to accumulate the corporate. The deal was however each corporations needed to soar via some Sega’s hoping the acquisition will give them a stronger foothold within the cellular house, regardless of the golden days of Offended Birds fandom
Nonetheless, Rovio isn’t just the one IP. Past Offended Birds and its many spinoff video games, the corporate is thought 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 growing, publishing and promoting cellular video games. This implies it might probably hit the bottom operating when making cellular titles based mostly by itself IPs, like Sonic, Samba de Amigo, Persona, Soccer Supervisor and others. There’s additionally lots of of older video games simply ready for cellular ports.
Again in April, CEO Haruki Satomi mentioned that “the cellular gaming market has particularly excessive potential, and it has been Sega’s long-term objective to speed up its enlargement on this discipline.”
Past Sega’s pre-existing franchises, the corporate will doubtless proceed with extra Offended Birds cellular video games. Regardless of dropping a few of that late 2000s luster, Offended Birds remains to be a reasonably scorching commodity, with associated motion pictures, TV reveals and even a Possibly 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?
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