Angry Birds Go game! It has sold more copies in two years than Mario Kart has in more than twenty years. Oskar Burman, the general manager of the Stockholm branch of Rovio, did not fail to emphasize this fact in his Twitter account.
Nintendo’s Mario Kart launched in 1992. For the entire existence of the franchise, the total circulation of the series was about 100 million copies.
Does that sound impressive? No, according to Berman. Two years since the release of the Angry Birds Go game! downloaded 130 million times. He noted that the games compete on different fields. The Rovio title is shareware, but the Mario Kart series is not. According to him, the performance of the games “is still interesting to compare.”
Total reach of Mario Kart (1992-2015): 106M copies sold Total reach of Angry Birds Go (2013-2015): 130M copies downloaded
— Oskar Burman (@OskarBurman) April 9, 2015He believes that the figures can “give a rough idea of Nintendo’s prospects in the mobile market.”
Бёрман This is a hint at the company’s recently announced partnership with DeNA, whose goal is to conquer mobile.
A source: http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk
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