{"id":12936,"date":"2011-07-15T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T09:55:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"angry-birds-dev-we-re-looking-at-all-the-consoles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/12936-angry-birds-dev-we-re-looking-at-all-the-consoles","title":{"rendered":"Angry Birds dev: \u201cWe\u2019re looking at all the consoles\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is nowhere safe? Having already conquered just about every mobile platform in Middle Earth, Angry Birds dev Rovio has now turned its flaming eye to the console market.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There,&rdquo; it might have boomed to the windswept crags, &ldquo;I shall fling my birds next.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>More officially, though, the company&rsquo;s VP of franchise development has been talking to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2011-07-14-wii-u-a-natural-match-for-angry-birds\" target=\"_blank\">Eurogamer<\/a> about bringing the game to the Wii U, 3DS, PS Vita, Xbox, and PS3.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We really haven&#8217;t looked into the Wii U specifically yet &#8211; we haven&#8217;t announced anything for Nintendo consoles yet. But if you look at the control methods, if you look at the Wii U, I mean that&#8217;s a really, really natural match, so obviously we&#8217;re very interested in developing there as well,&#8221; says Ville Heijari.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;[The 3DS is] a really really interesting platform,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Many people doomed it outright as it being somehow gimmicky, but obviously the same thing as with the Wii U: if you look at the 3DS, Angry Birds games would make a perfect match there.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&#8217;re looking at consoles and seeing how we can bring the current gameplay, the basic slingshot offering, into a really compelling and engaging title for the current consoles,&#8221; he adds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re looking at all the consoles. We haven&#8217;t announced any particular titles for any console, but we are looking at every console at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course &#8211; anything new that comes round, especially from people like Sony, is always interesting to us. So Vita is there as well; looking into it, seeing what we can do there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, that&rsquo;s pretty much all the bases covered.<\/p>\n<p>Originally released for Apple&rsquo;s iOS back in 2009, Angry Birds has become something of a phenomenon, moving onto Android, Windows, Mac OS, PSP, PSN and smartphones, with over 250 million downloads at last count.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/15662-Angry-Birds-developer-is-quot-looking-at-all-consoles-quot?p=475860#post475860\" target=\"_self\">Discuss Angry Birds <\/a><\/strong><\/span>in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next stop, THE UNIVERSE<\/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-12936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12936","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=12936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}