outlawauron said:
Look at dem sales charts? The revenue that the game brings in would be put in the top 10 sales every week. |
Thats revenue...not profit. Platform holders get a sizeable % from that revenue. Apple, Facebook and Google all take their share.
Secondly, most mobile game franchises have a very limited lifespan. In 1 or 2 years time people would have moved on from Candy Crush and their publisher might have the same fate as Zynga who are struggling at the moment.
And without exact numbers and hard evidence it will be really hard to prove that it makes more that every other video game out at the moment. I would imagine that Riot games gets a decent amount of profit for LoL as well...considering that they dont have to pay a % of their revenue to platform holders.
In any case it wasnt my intent to start a debate about which game brings in the most profit with my initial post. Kirby claimed that Candy Crush was bigger than Zelda and Uncharted...using sales numbers to determine this. I was merely pointing out that Candy Crush is free...competely free. While Uncharted and Zelda retail for 40 - 60$. Thats a major contributor to why the game has those huge numbers.
