Angry birds Peter Vesterbacka: kills tablets console games (video) - VentureBeat

Common VentureBeat readers already know that angry birds, beat Peter Vesterbacka, who leads business development at the company behind mobile gaming thinks that mobile games kill consoles. But now you can listen to his remarks even.

Vesterbacka said on a mobile-gaming section, where I moderated at the South by Southwest Interactive Conference in Austin, on Sunday. His company, Rovio, is the great success in the mobile gaming, with more than 100 downloads of the angry birds become and the last 42 million round of financing from Accel Partners. Vesterbacka said that this success is a greater tendency:

I think that has really shifted focus [gaming], so it is now mobile. This is where most of the innovation is most of the growth. Consoles are a dying race, really I think. And again, you cannot be a good example - this one without mentioning, Apple and the iPad. You see the lines outside the store here... You set up in the life a year ago, or less than a year ago, now you have the iPad 2, then 3 and 4, and so on. … The thing is, it is very competitive. And then you have all of the other tablets, all of it.

I think that tablets are killing the consoles. This is where games are played. … We'll see probably four generations of tablets before there is a new console, if it is always a new console.

Tero Ojanpera, who runs services and developer experience at Nokia, was also in the area, and he started the discussion by talking about what is Nokia's partnership with Microsoft for developers. You can a modified version of the discussion in the two videos below. (Vesterbacka's comments on consoles start over at the 10 minute point in part one.)

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