Facebook: Getting Inspiration from Console Games

Facebook wants to entice more users on their network by looking at console games for inspiration.
Social network giant, Facebook, wants to offer a wider range of games and taking cue from console games like sports title and first-person shooters. The network’s Global Head for Game Partnership, Sean Ryan, stated that featuring a broader selection of games will attract more users to the platform.
He noted that Xbox, PlayStation and Wii have hundreds of games — making it an issue that Facebook doesn’t. Another concern that Sean Ryan addressed is that the social network does not make games of their own or invest in them.
However, he argued that Facebook casual games does not threat console games.
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