Angry birds economics

Cnn money is reporting that the popular smart phone game "Angry Birds" has surpassed 350 MILLION downloads. Depending on the version, each game costs between 50 cents and 5 dollars. Even if they are all the 50 cent version this company made 150 million dollars.

Angry Birds is a symbol of what wrong with capitalism today. Personally I found Angry Birds entertaining for about 2 minutes. And it probably took the writers of the game about that long to make. Designers of meaningful, complex games that are playable for years are all jumping ship and going over to facebook/app based game companies because the even the most successful PC games only sells ~500,000 copies. Just to turn a profit they need to charge $50-60 bucks per game. Like Wallstreet, all the incentive lies in the quick meaningless huge profit and early retirement. It also means the leonardo devincis of the industry are shackled to a grossly shrinking number of companies willing to produce these type of games.