More Copies of Angry Birds Than People In The United States. Fantastic.

How is this for a stat: there have been more copies of Angry Birds downloaded than there are people in the United States. Well then.

Kotaku:

Most games are happy selling 1-2 million copies. For mobile gaming sensation  Angry Birds, 1-2 million is but a grain of sand upon its beach of money.

The game’s creator, Rovio, announced yesterday that  Angry Birds  has moved  half a billion copies. Sure, it’s cheap (and sometimes free!), but still. Moving 500,000,000 copies of a game is one hell of an achievement, regardless of the cost.

Angry Birds  usually costs around $1 (if you’re paying for it at all), and is available on platforms as diverse as mobile, PC, Mac, and PlayStation 3. It involves birds and…ah, who am I kidding, you’ve all played it by now.

That’s a lot of fucking copies. Lots of dead piggies, flying bloat, and tomfoolery.