“Rocket League” has raked in nearly $50 million in revenue and amassed more than 8 million registered players since its July launch on PCs and Sony's PlayStation 4 console, Psyonix Inc., its developer, said.

On Dec. 5, “Rocket League” was named the best sports/racing title at the Game Awards, beating out big-budget releases such as Electronic Arts' “FIFA 16.” It also won best independent game.

Psyonix was founded in 2000 and has been profitable since 2005. It stumbled in 2008 with “Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars,” a spiritual ancestor to “Rocket League” made by a team of 10 with no marketing budget. The game, originally priced at $14.99, didn’t gain traction even after Psyonix cut it to $9.99.

It wasn’t clear “Rocket League” would be a success, either. Psyonix spent about two years and a little less than $2 million making the game in between doing contract work for larger companies, the studio’s founder and chief, Dave Hagewood, said.

They are in talks to bring other famous vehicles to “Rocket League,” possibly including KITT from “Knight Rider,” according to Bill Kispert, an executive vice president at Comcast's Universal.

It next plans to release “Rocket League” on Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox One early next year.

Entire article: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/12/17/how-rocket-league-became-2015s-surprise-videogame-hit/

Well I thought they got even a bigger revenue but still DAMN, that is impressive, it's well deserved for such a strange idea, I hope to see it releasing on NX too :D

Something I'm a little curious about is who the Xbox players will be able to play against. Will they have cross-platform with PC via Win 10 integration even though RL will have already sold around 3 million copies on Steam? To rephrase that, I don't think PC players would be on board with that. Or will they join the PS4/PC servers (which tbh I consider to be doubtful)

That's incredible! Rocket League is a really fun and great game and Psyonix keeps giving content updates frequently both free and paid. I am happy they made good money from RL.

it was already announced,.. no cross play on xbox.  xbox players get to play other xbox players and not join the existing ps4/pc community.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/12/07/no-crossplay-for-rocket-league-on-xbox-one

Thx for link, I kinda figured so

They are going to have to play with themselfs, eeeerk.

Definitely the sales success of 2015. Over 8 million players and counting! can't wait until they announce the 10m mark!

It's gonna get higher, with Xbox 1 launch and the continued support Psyonix is showing the game.

Makes me again wonder how much Sony paid for it to be on plus, Psyonix won't mind if it went cheap because it got so many people talking about the game.

It's an excellent funny game, there's 1000s of players 24/7, the drop in drop out works perfectly and it's very easy to get in a game.

Psyonix devs deserve their success for bringing us this gem.