TaroSarask on 08 November 2007
| mrstickball said: Taro - As it is right now, a board game company can send their IP to Microsoft to develop for *around* 50% revenue. Carcassone is a little bit lower in revenue, but it was released 2 months later than Catan: Total Revenue $801,123 Total Sales: 80,112 All the #'s are on the main page. I *think* with a bit of work tommorow, even without a parser or any sort of automated program to farm the data, I can wind up putting a weekly chart together of each and every title. And remember: I am almost certain that my numbers, overall, are low by about 10-30% in terms of downloads/revenue. So we could even see those games have a decently higher revenue |
50%!? Microsoft does the work? Seems like a no brainer for most board game companies to me. This is enlightening as Wizards of the Coast is rolling out a service on their "Gleemax" community to play electronic versions of board games. Seems like they probably would be better off to just port things over to the 360. Well, maybe not... but perhaps do both.
Really for any board game that is moderately successful, this seems like an excellent extension of their IP and brand.
