The mobile gaming phenomenon that is Angry Birds depicted no signs of slowing down over the holidays, with Rovio’s Ville Heijari telling the Wall Street Journal’s AllThingsD blog the series racked up 6.5 million downloads on Xmas Daylight alone.
The number, which includes paid and loose downloads of the original “Angry Birds” equally substantially as sequels “Angry Birds Rio” and “Angry Birds Seasons,” is well above the 1 million download a day ordinary Rovio reported in June, but merely a driblet in the bucket compared to over 500 million entire downloads for the series since the first game was released simply over two years ago.
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Though Rovio made dozens of mobile games before “Angry Birds,” the 55-person Finnish company is straightaway digested almost totally by the one franchise’s massive success. Likewise channelise sales and in-game ads, Rovio rakes in cash via licensed productions ranging from t-shirts and cookbooks to upcoming parks and movies hence much cash, in fact, that the companionship is reportedly eyeing a public stock offering in the near future.
AllThingsD notes the 6.5 million Christmas downloads matches nearly exactly the number of smartphones activated that day, causing us to wonder how many of those downloaders are just getting the game again for a newly upgraded phone. In any case, the series has got a success floor practically unparalleled in the video game world, and one the fellowship says it plans to follow up with young series releases in 2012.