"Journey Becomes Profitable, ThatGameCompany Starts Receiving Royalties"

[HikenNoAce]

Barozi said:

HikenNoAce said:
If a game sells well but don't recoup their development costs, then something went wrong in the management of the team and development somewhere.

Retro City Rampage sold 35,000 on PSN, making $600,000 on PSN, and sold 40,000 on PC (including Steam) and made $400,000 there.

Clearly, PSN yields more money.

Retro City Rampage made at the time $600k, but on both PS3 and PSV combined.

Overall the PC indie market is far far larger than PSN and XBLA and lifetime sales/revenue will show that even more.

But don't forget that the Vita version was free for those who bought the PS3 version. And the VIta version was free for PS+ subscribers too.

Overall, more money was made on PSN than on PC.