{"id":10551,"date":"2011-03-08T23:56:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T21:56:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"angry-birds-cost-140k-to-make-has-made-70-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/10551-angry-birds-cost-140k-to-make-has-made-70-million","title":{"rendered":"Angry Birds cost $140k to make, has made $70 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/magazine\/archive\/2011\/04\/features\/how-rovio-made-angry-birds-a-winner?page=all\" target=\"_blank\">wired.co.uk<\/a>, Angry Birds developer Rovio claims that its ridiculously successful casual game cost just $140,000 to develop. 75 million customers later, and the game has earned more that &nbsp;&euro;50 million ($70million). That&#8217;s R490,000,000.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This revenue has been attributed not only to game sales, but also to 60,000 Angry Birds toys sold.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to believe then that at the beginning of 2009, Rovio was close to bankruptcy. Angry Birds is one of gaming&#8217;s most prominent success stories of the past 5 years, managing to dominate sales in the iTunes store before making its way to Android, PC, PS3, and soon Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Rovio plans to continue working with the Angry Birds brand, with a multiple future projects planned within the universe that has become part of modern pop culture.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"341\" height=\"208\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/d3E4jCMk0bY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"341\" height=\"208\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/d3E4jCMk0bY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And that ladies and gentlemen, is what we call a &#039;profitable enterprise&#039;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}