With close to 1 billion downloads, it's safe to say Angr൲y Birds is a moderate success for Rovio. Now, Nintendo's star producer Shigeru Miyamoto has gone on record to say he, too, is among the game's many fans, telling he regrets not thinking of it himself.

“There aren’t many games that I’ve played recently that have been truly convincingﷺ to me,” he admitted while catching a breather from his 3DS promotion tour at the Louvre Museum in Paris. “But that said, I have very much enjoyed Angry Birds, especially the way in which it combines traditional and new game elements in exciting ways. Angry Birds is a very simple idea but it’s one of those games that I immediately appreciated wheꦚn I first started playing, before wishing that I had been the one to come up with the idea first.”

Miyamoto further praised the game's controls, admitting that while they take a little practice, their intuitive design and precision make for a comಌpelling experience. That said, he added Angry Birds could have been pull𒁃ed off better on Nintendo's own hardware, noting, “Obviously, if the developer had created the game for Nintendo DS the controls would have been even better, but what can you do?”

Touche, Mr. Miyamoto. Perhaps we'll see a version 📖of Angry Goombas on the Wii or Wii U eShop?