Sega completes purchase of Rovio for $776 million

Sega Sammy has of Offended Birds developer Rovio, formally plunking down a cool $776 million to amass the corporate. The deal was however each firms needed to bounce by means of some Sega’s hoping the acquisition will give them a stronger foothold within the cell house, regardless of the golden days of Offended Birds fandom

Nonetheless, Rovio is not only the one IP. Past Offended Birds and its many spinoff video games, the corporate is thought for the match-three puzzler Sugar Blast and the narrative thriller title Small City Murders. Okay, these aren’t precisely high-profile IPs, however Sega will get one thing past recognizable franchise titles with this buy. It will get a ready-made infrastructure for growing, publishing and promoting cell video games. This implies it may well hit the bottom operating when making cell titles based mostly by itself IPs, like Sonic, Samba de Amigo, Persona, Soccer Supervisor and others. There’s additionally a whole bunch of older video games simply ready for cell ports.

Again in April, CEO Haruki Satomi mentioned that “the cell gaming market has particularly excessive potential, and it has been Sega’s long-term objective to speed up its growth on this discipline.”

Past Sega’s pre-existing franchises, the corporate will seemingly proceed with extra Offended Birds cell video games. Regardless of shedding a few of that late 2000s luster, Offended Birds remains to be a reasonably sizzling commodity, with associated films, TV reveals and even a Perhaps pairing up these irritated avians with a sure blue hedgehog will deliver the one-time cell smash again into the collective consciousness. Now, who’s up for flinging Knuckles right into a bunch of pigs?