Angry Birds coming to Windows Phone 7!

October 10, 2010 | By Surur

Angry Birds coming to Windows phone 7!

The benchmarks of what makes a relevant gaming platform keeps changing with every new fashionable game, but at the moment it rests very securely on Revio’s gigantic hit game, Angry Birds, now available on iPhone, Android and Symbian.

It should therefore be a gigantic solace to bloggers who measure the potential success of a platform by the presence of one game that Angry Birds appears also to be heading to Windows phone 7, with Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 page featuring the icon hidden in plain sight next to Tap tap Revenge and MoTweets.

If Microsoft can get the hit games on Windows Phone 7 they can remain a very relevant platform to consumers, despite having only 1% of the catalogue at start. This is something Microsoft would have particular experience with from their fight with the PS2 at the start of the decade, and we know how that turned out eventually in the next generation.

Update 1: The makers of Angry Birds have tweeted that they are not committed to develop Angry Birds for WP7.

Update 2:

Update 3:

Thanks Tasos for the tip.

About Surur

Site Admin and Windows Phone enthusiast, he has been using Windows Mobile devices since before they were called PocketPC’s. He is currently sporting a HTC 7 Trophy.

Tagged angry birds, game, revio, software, windows phone 7

CeeK

omg! tap tap revenge is on there too!! WOOT!

Andrew

don't think any of them will be there now (See update)
Manny

I'm really hoping for this! Tap Tap is the only game I miss on my old iPhone..

Edelweiss

Microsoft has generally being paying larger software vendors to port their games to Windows Phone 7.

I guess the flip side of this is that game vendors know this, and will demand payment to port their games.
http://wmpoweruser.com wmpoweruser

Dear Tam, I predict WP7 will sell more in its first month than android did.

Is that relevant enough for you?
Sharkaat

I hope they will at least consider doing it (now)…
http://twitter.com/AaronCT123 @AaronCT123

Dang. Although, perhaps this serves the goal of showing that demand for these games on WP7 exists. As in, maybe it was an intentional marketing/PR spin designed to get the devs in question interested.
Sharkaat

I believe you have to register with intensedebate in order to get editing option. I registered few days ago, just so I have more options.

Second of all, yeah I've sent them a twitter message too, hoping they'll port the Angry Birds while not being angry themselves.

Cheers!
Tamarai

They aren't currently 'relevant', so the wording is a little off in your article — 'achieve relevancy' might be a more appropriate phrase, something you can keep your fingers crossed for