My respect for Nintendo as a publisher, and why I believe that Sony & Microsoft wish they were a little more like them.

[Scoobes]

F0X said:

Scoobes said:
If we're talking about games entering the mainstream then surely we should also be looking beyond the consoles to tablets and mobiles? Don't the Angry Birds games for instance have over 1 billion downloads?

Downloads =/= sales.

We have no idea how many of those downloads were for the free version.

True, but it's simply a different business model to that of most console games. If only 10% of those downloads are paid downloads, that's still a significant amount of money and then theres the in-app purchases and ad revenue that the developers/publishers will also see.