Global HW & SW Up! 19th January

[Mnementh]

maximrace said:

Soleron said:

maximrace said:
I think it's easy to understand. There is a marketshift towards apps.

Oh really? Show me the big app game company's balance sheets.

Look at games like fruit ninja, temple run and angry birds. They are far more profitable than a 64€ core game that sells below 1m

Rovio (Angry Birds maker) had 2011 a revenue of 75.4 million €: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rovio_Entertainment

THQ (recently bankrupt core-game maker) had 2011 a revenue of 665 million US$: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THQ

So even with a ultra-hit-game like Angry Birds (around 1 billion times sold) Rovio wasn't able to get as big as a core-game-maker. And Rovio is one of the biggest app-game-makers, Angry Birds is the exception, nothing common. And THQ is on the lower end of core-game-makers.