Rovio’s bird launching game tripled its Christmas day downloads by more than three times compared to the previous year’s figures of the same day.
One of the most downloaded pieces of digital entertainment in the world, Rovio’s popular game ‘app’ went on to find its way to a number of homes, phones, tablets, PCs and anything imaginable this festive period.
The app was downloaded an astonishing 6.5-million times on Christmas alone. For those who are still unimpressed by this figure let Bettor.com put it in perspective for you.
That is 6,500,000 times in 24 hours, which means that every hour the game was downloaded 270,833 times every hour or 4,513 times every minute. Either that or the intern we hired to do all these calculations for us is pulling our leg.
Whichever way one looks at it that is one impressive figure and leaves one wondering how many people on Earth have Angry Birds, or maybe how many people do not; seeing how the latter would probably post a smaller figure.
It seems that people seemed to celebrate Christmas by hurling various types of birds needing anger management through the air and into structures as they looked to destroy the green pigs who stole their eggs. What is this world coming to?
Last year, Rovio’s game managed an impressive two million downloads, which were impressive enough then, yet this year; Angry Birds more than tripled that figure.
The game has been downloaded a world record 500-million times and that was before the Christmas download figures were included. In fact, that figure was till the month of November, meaning that the total downloads could very well have passed the 506.5-million
mark everyone has put together in their heads. You know you did.
Ville Heijari, the Vice President of Franchise Development, or VP of FD as we here like to call him for no apparent reason, probably jumped with joy when he heard the news, yet he was calm and composed when he stated, “We’re (Rovio) really excited to have
such a massive number of new people get acquainted with Angry Birds over the holidays – we have exciting new releases lined up for 2012, and can’t wait to introduce them to the public.”
Whether or not those are Angry Bird spin-offs such as Seasons and Rio, or whether the developers are going in a new direction with a new IP?
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