Man, the games industry has been getting a little catty recently, hasn’t it? Tetris Company’s manager, Henk Rodgers, has a few things to say about Angry Birds.
Rodgers, in an interview with Industry Gamers, thinks Rovio’s success with the Angry Birds franchise will be no more than a fad. “I like to compare it to a sport, in the beginning it’s an activity, like golf was an activity, then it became a sport. I think once people have played it more than 20 or 25 years you can say it’s here to stay, it’s a sport, it’s no longer a fad.”
“Angry Birds is cute and everybody plays it for a while but they get burned out and move on and they will play another game. But Tetris is like Happy Birthday, it keeps on going. Everybody else has games that come and go, they make the hit parade, but these are all temporary.”
He then went on to compare Angry Birds success to that of Tetris. “You have to work really hard to get your unknown game to be #1, but when we re-released Tetris it became #1 even though we didn’t do any marketing. We have an unfair advantage, I gotta say. I’d rather have the goose that lays the golden egg.”
Get it? Golden egg? Because it's Angry Birds? Oh, Rodgers, you card!
[Source: Industry Gamers]
