Flappy Bird may be gone, but it's certainly not forgotten. A new report from Pocket Gamer has found that 60 new Flappy Bird clones were added to Apple's App Store February 28-March 3. That breaks down to 2.5 new clones per hour or one every 24 minutes.
To qualify as a Flappy Bird clone, games needed to have players guiding characters through a course of pipes (or pipe-like objects) hanging from the ceiling or emerging from the ground.
Some notable Flappy Bird clones have included Fall Out Bird (based on the band Fall Out Boy) and Flappy Bert, which was inspired by the beloved Sesame Street character. The original Flappy Bird saw more than 50 million downloads before created Dong Nguyen pulled the game down in early February, saying the game was "too addictive."
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stupid people downloads every 1 sec !!!
It's an all-around strange story.
It's an interesting statistic but I can't believe this game is still so popular.. it was just awful...
just let this game die..
I find this sort of article interesting....more-so a reminder, of how fickle and leached the market can be. It makes it easier when I haven't made an app yet, and yet I still wonder upon the effort-vs-results scale. It's like a reverse lottery.
And so flappigedon rages on!!
They should ban every game within that helicopter gameplay type, it's getting ridiculous
Where is Fappy Bird?
Why should GS stop w/ the flappy bird or titanfall stories? Readers who want to refine their comedy club acts+free clickbait venue to do so+additional ad revenue for GS=what capitalism is all about..
You know, some of you should learn that if you don't want more Flappy Bird articles, don't click on them.
enough of the flappy crap please
and people wonder why nintendo doens't want to be associated with the mobile app stores.
Soo lame I wont even put in the effort anymore..
Piss-poor Gamespot journalism as usual. This has to be the 20th article I've seen on Flappy Bird. The game deserved two stories at most.
Fuck GS would you get over this story already, I wish google chrome had a censor app that would blackout all flappy bird horse shit.
...the math. my eyes. it makes no sense.
Just another reason why I don't play games on mobile (Android and iOS; not 3DS, PS Vita, etc). This mindless garbage is ruining it for the better games out there. Also, any games that do work well on the mobile platform are lost in a sea of this crap.
OH THE HUMANITY!!!
Have the South Park guys done "Snappy Turd", starring Mr Hanky yet?
I bet big publishers feel angry as hell when they see how much a simple game generates on the smartphones!
4 days = 96 hours
60 games in 96 hours =/= a new game every 24 minutes...
This whole thing, from the original game right up to all the clones, makes me sick to the very pit of my stomach.
What? Even after they banned apps with "flappy" in the title? I thought for sure that such a strategy would be foolproof.
Flappy is still crappy.
Remember people, mobile gaming is the "future".
damn mindless masses
also since when does 60 occurrences over 4 days equal 2.5/hr?
An article about how rip-offs are still ripping off a rip-off and about how Eddie cannot count.
I weep for humanity.
Who gives a shit.
Your not supposed to reward a child for bad behavior.
It quite outstanding that in this list of comments, only 1 person observed how poor math skills does Gamespot possess .
Laughable.
Money is great and all, but I'm amazed by how utterly obsessed with it everyone seems to be. Why is everyone allowing money and success to replace humanity and artistic integrity? Why is a species with so much potential reduced to this?
Tap to Flap! (on iOS and Android), the one with the cockerel and prickly cacti, is one of the better ones. Cheeky sense of humor too.
That is some really, really bad math.
60 clones over the course of 96 hours comes out to approximately 1 clone every 1.5 hours, not every 24 minutes. There would have to be around 200 clones over the course of 4 days for them to come out every 24 minutes.
I understand the grand scheme of this Flappy Bird thing: First Dong Nguyen makes a game that obviously uses Nintendo assets, then he discontinues it at the height of it's success. Then, a thousand clones of the game are born. Next, he sues all those developers who made the clones, and make a huge pile of money, and finally Nintendo sues him for all the cash he made for using their assets...
...And that's how Nintendo survives the current generation of consoles! Well played, Iwata-san!
Flappy Bird clones make up one-third of newly released iOS games.
Pathetic devs.
While the original did make alot of cash, clones will only be clones and wont get anywhere near that. Most of these dev;s will see the 5k a day cash stream and want some, but they are just too many clones appearing that its gonna kill off the game for good...Ppl are gonna get sick of the same old stuff and find something else to play.
They should spend some time thinking up a new game, something unique that could be brilliant if done right. Making clone after clone is only wasting time...
90% of mobile phone games are tumor that should not exist...
@XboxGuy1537
I doubt that you would complain if a game that you like gets plenty of articles. ;)
@nurnberg You know what impress me most of all of the "the future" crap talk, is that the same company that screams digital only is the future screams "mobile is the future", then "streaming is the future", it has been seven years that people that use the "is the future" excuse, and the most stupid part is they always end saying "in 10 years" for the last seven years.
@Cryio who said anyone else read the article?
@devilsandgods The math was right, but it was done for 24 hours. Whoops.
@devilsandgods It seems Gamespot is not really good at math. Major fail.
@devilsandgods bad math is a running theme in gs articles. maybe they are just trolling us.
@devilsandgods I just looked at the author, I'm not surprised. lol
@Ereheru So Nintendo cloned itself so it could sue itself for the money??
@Gelugon_baat @XboxGuy1537 This isn't even an actual game. It's a timekiller when your waiting in line somwhere
@thetravman @devilsandgodsYeah, Eddie has poor comprehension skills. According to the pocket gamer article, 60 clones PER DAY were added (on average).
@XboxGuy1537
You can say that, but don't freak out when someone says that something that you like is not a game and does not deserve articles.
As an example, you won't like it if someone uses the argument that you used to say that Skyrim mods don't deserve coverage, will you?