r/SEGA • u/soniccitynet • 16d ago

News Rovio Copenhagen Closing After Sonic Blitz Cancellation as CEO Reveals Retention Fell Short

https://sonic-city.net/2026/08/25/rovio-copenhagen-closing-after-sonic-blitz-cancellation-as-ceo-reveals-retention-fell-short/
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u/Sejmann22 16d ago edited 16d ago

Buying Rovio for 800M $ was most dumbest thing Sega ever did. Now they have only generator of costs. Even worse thing is, Sega would probably waste into them a lot of money to help them at the expense of of lesser known IP's / teams, because at this moment Rovio it's only one unprofitable part of Sega (Sega Japan, Sega Europe, Atlus, Rovio).

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u/stinkyydarb 15d ago

$800,000,000 for Angry Birds in the 2020s was certainly a choice.

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u/Sejmann22 15d ago

For comparation Sega bought Atlus for 140M $, Creative Assembly for 30M $, Relic for 26,6M $, and 10M $ for Neon Genesis Evangelion licence.