14 DAY TRIAL // One of the most important game developers in the world has said that Angry Birds, the wildly successful mobile title from Rovio, is a traditional video game that benefits from the platforms on which it was released.
Shigeru Miyamoto, the man behind such Nintendo successes as Mario and The Legend of Zelda, has told Hookshot that, “What I like about Angry Birds is that it has a traditional videogame to it, but also a very creative side. And you can really feel that they’re having fun developing the game. That’s what I like about it.”
He then added, “Obviously, if the developer had created the game for Nintendo DS the controls would have been even better, but what can you do?”
This can be taken as a direct attack on Apple and its way of designing phones or as an invitation for Rovio to take their core franchise and move it to the Nintendo 3DS handheld.
Miyamoto spoke about these things in Paris, where he was invited for the event that marked the introduction of the Nintendo 3DS as a tour guide for those visiting the Louvre Museum.
The iPhone was designed by Apple as a communications platform first and foremost, but video games have quickly flourished on the device, attracting gamers with simple-to-understand mechanics and with low prices.
A lot of industry observers are blaming the ascendancy of the iOS and Android devices for the recent vanning fortunes of the traditional gaming handhelds.
Both the Nintendo 3DS and the new PlayStation Vita from Sony have sold less devices than their parent companies initially hoped for, and their creators were forced to introduce social and multimedia features in order to compete.
Rovio has recently announced that it was considering bringing its flagship series to a new set of hardware platforms, although it has not made any official announcements.