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Rovio are one hit wonders. Not trying to be cynical or hate upon them, that's just how it worked out. They got lucky with Angry Birds, but failing to produce an
by DigitalSea 12y ago
Rovio are one hit wonders. Not trying to be cynical or hate upon them, that's just how it worked out. They got lucky with Angry Birds, but failing to produce any new IP was their downfall. It's like a movie studio releasing the same movie over and over again expecting it to break box office records and be profitable. Sure people might go and see the first two sequels, but eventually people will grow tired and stop caring. This is what happened with Angry Birds. They had some great licencing deals, one of those being Star Wars and made a heap of money off of merchandise.
This is the problem with most app companies these days. They build a successful app, it is popular for a few months and then people stop caring. Draw Something, Words With Friends, Flappy Bird, the list goes on. People have short attention spans.
Would Nintendo still be around today if they kept on making sequels to Super Mario? Probably not. Rovio tried to squeeze Angry Birds too hard and lost. All they did was continually rebrand the same game with the same mechanics and changed a few of the game assets.
- brianwawok 12y agoExcept Nintendo DOES keep making sequels to Mario, and they keep selling. The difference is they release every few years, and fill in the gaps with other stuff. Not a new angry birds clone with new graphics every 3 months.
- inDigiNeous 12y agoYeah and the big difference is that the new Mario or Zelda is going to Innovate in new ways that nobody else has done before. Think Super Mario Galaxies, Zelda Ocarina Of Time, Windwaker and so on. Always new gameplay mechanics and most importantly, fun! Although the newest Zelda on the Wii was kinda meh, haven't played it though yet so hard to say.
- waylandsmithers 12y agoPerhaps the better analogy would be if Nintendo just continued releasing new levels for the original Mario Bros for NES. Technically Super Mario 64 is some sort of sequel, but it's clearly an entirely different game.
- DigitalSea 12y agoMaybe I worded too loosely. What I meant was, Nintendo are not simply making the same sequel to a game like Mario, even though some of the original game mechanic is there, they have always in my opinion made each Mario game better than the last (like they have for Zelda and other games). They add in new features and other innovative gameplay mechanics that make it feel like more than just another Mario or Zelda game. The issue with Rovio is exactly how you described it, a new Angry Birds game with new graphics but the same mechanics, the same storyline and basically nothing new.
- jiggy2011 12y agoNintendo has got a long way by rehashing the Mario and Zelda IPs but crucially they made new games with new gameplay.