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Conina on 11 November 2018
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Miyamotoo said:
Conina said:

Well, in a chart with profits, Apple & Google will gain a few places. Since they don't make their own games, around 90% of their revenue will be profits, so ~$4 bn profits for Apple and ~$2.5 bn for Google.

No risks with expensive game developments turning out to be a flop, just ka-ching.

You do realise that Apple and Google share profit from their revenue with devs that releasing games on their platforms? And no, 90% of revenue is not profit.

I mean they have very good profit, but we talking with platforms with hundreds of millions devices on those platforms.

You do realize that the $4.4 billion and $2.8 billion are already their 25 - 30% cut, not the whole 100% revenue?

Their total app revenue in the first half year were $22.6 billion and $11.8 billion, but that includes non-gaming apps.

Their estimate total gaming app revenue in the first half year are $16.3 billion and $10.3 billion:

https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/16/apples-app-store-revenue-nearly-double-that-of-google-play-in-first-half-of-2018/

And yes, ~90% of that software revenue is their profit. Plus crazy profits for their hardware in the case of Apple.