Barkley said:
No It's not, not in the slightest. They got 500 Angry Birds Players aged over 18 that live in the USA. That's supposed to be statistically relevant compared to 1 billion people of all ages from all over the world? It's a complete joke xD Sources are on Wikipedia, majority of information are the latest figures given by the developers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_games#Mobile_phone |
Angry birds only at 12 million paid downloads was in 2010 - with 42 million free downloads. A lot has changed since then.
http://mashable.com/2010/12/08/angry-birds-hits-42-million-downloads/#K415Pxi5Yqqg
That game has since cleared 2 billion downloads of all kinds
https://www.vg247.com/2014/01/22/angry-birds-downloaded-2-billion-times-has-as-many-maus-as-twitter/
Even if paid download attach rate dipped to 10% over those other 2 billion ish downloads - it still would have cleared 200 million paid downloads in it's lifetime.
For a successful mobile game to cross over into several hundred million paid downloads isn't out of the question.
I'd argue that Minecraft is a significantly more complex game for casuals to really get into - hence only the 30 million downloads.
I predict NX launches in 2017 - not 2016
