Candy Crush Saga developer: revenue $1.88 billion, profit $568 million

[NiKKoM]

Soleron said:

NiKKoM said:

Release more games? Candy Crush is their biggest moneymaker but still 22% are because of the other games.. which is also impressive if you look at the stuff other "regular" publishers release and stlll don't make any money..

Is there any regular publisher where a single game brings in 78% of revenue for a period? REVENUE, not profit. Losing money on a game still brings in revenue.

The other games also seem quite tied to the success and publicity of the first. If the popularity of the genre/format goes down, won't they all collapse at once?

To people saying this is low risk: they clearly have ONE BILLION DOLLARS in expenses for last year. Looks like a huge risk if CCS fails, they'll still have that same salary bill to pay.

none.. but WoW is probably at 30% and CoD the other 70% (does activision even release other games?)
But the expensives are probably a few accountant tricks to get the profit and tax down.. thats not uncommon..
and if CCS drops like a stone suddenly within a few months they still would have billions to develop a next game.. sure it's a bubble that can deflate slowly any time but its not a Zynga.. Zynga had the trouble of converting their succesfull games to Mobile.. Farmville was in a time when Tablets / Smartphones didn't capture the casual market... a problem which King.com doesn't have..