Shovel Knight profit analysis

[Samus Aran]

Conina said:

Samus Aran said:
If someone can provide me with a decent source on how high the royalties are for indie games on Steam and Nintendo Eshop I'd be grateful. :)

Valve has a "flexible" royalty system (and Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft probably too), but you can be sure, that bigger publishers get much better deals at the negotiation table than "insignificant" small indie studios.

http://www.develop-online.net/news/steam-dev-revenue-split-flexible-but-fair/0109256

I would be very surprised if indies get better conditions from Steam, XBL, PSN and eShop than from the AppStores. It's business, and the ones with leverage will try to fuck the other party.

Ok, I included a source that says the royalties are about the same on Steam and Eshop than the Appstores. So I did the calculation with 30%. Still a very big profit if you ask me!

Thanks.