Zynga launched CityVille on Google+

Zynga - developer of the most popular games for Facebook - today announced the launch of CityVille for Google+. Zynga launched its first game for Google+ at the same time as the launch of the Google gaming platform itself, but CityVille is the first really popular game Zynga, it ranks first in the ranking of Facebook games.

Zynga social games have over 146 million users, but they are almost completely played inside Facebook. However, in July 2010, Google quietly invested more than $ 100 million in a gaming company, ensuring the emergence of the main Zynga games on its platform.

CityVille - a kind of crossbreed between FarmVille and Sim City - boasts over 72 million Facebook players , which is 30 million more than, according to recent estimates , Google+ users in general.
')


Nevertheless, Zynga has long expressed dissatisfaction with Facebook - for example, it takes 30% of Zynga’s significant revenues from its platform. According to reports, Google+ offers more favorable conditions for developers. Presence on different platforms will allow the company to grow faster and make its income less vulnerable from one platform.

Notable in this regard is this chart, published today in AllThingsD:



This is a great illustration of the Web 2.0 era, explaining why Google considers competition with Facebook to be important. (It's funny that just a couple of years ago there would have been a lack of Myspace.)

via ReadWriteWeb , Mashable