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Stories from your activity What are the typical earnings/profit of a AAA game? Diogo Neves, works at Muesly Answered October 18, 2014 There isn't a typical earnings unfortunately. It's a high risk business and earnings decrease exponentially as you go down the charts table. Read more » How much is considered a successful video game sale? Daniel Super, Professional Game Programmer & Designer Answered September 24, 2015 A net revenue that exceeds its total budget by more than a factor of at least three. It's hard to make a general answer that covers games at all levels, indie games with ver... Read more » How many copies must a game sell in order to be considered "popular"? How many copies have to sell before a game is considered "profitable" to the developers? Steve Whipp, Enterprise Infrastructure, Sci-Fi and General Geekery. Answered April 28, 2020 Unfortunately, the answer to that is hard to pin down and somewhat subjective. You see if a single person or small team developer releases a game and it sells 1 million copi... Read more » How much do game companies make from each game they sell if each game costs 60 dollars? Andrei Streche, 11 years in the industry; lead programmer, production manager. Answered November 15, 2017 In 2010, OnLive did a breakdown for game price (retail games only): And for retail games, this pretty much still holds true - maybe with smaller retailer margins and higher ... Read more » How do you start a video game company from zero? Shahmeer Chaudhry, 17, Made games for Steam, Android, Windows Phone, Oculus Rift. Partner at Valve. Updated April 24, 2017 I'm currently 17 and have dozens of mobile games and 1 Steam game published. I am aiming towards have a full time team working within a few months, hopefully. I made my first... Read more » How many people are needed to create a game like PUBG? V Sood, Pro gaming zone Updated October 15, 2021 A team of 100–1000 people or maybe more. It's not that easy as it looks like. There's a lot of work like designing buildings, effects, editing, sound sprites, graphical int... Read more » What are basic requirements to become a video game developer? Mauvia Modi, Hey, listen! Answered October 21, 2016 Let's assume your objective is to make a 2D RPG. You would need to… Pick a platform. Let's go windows PC. Read an introductory book on Python. Python The Hard Way is fine. Ge... Read more » Is it possible to form an Indie Game Studio and make a living? Alex Newman, former Director of Mobile Gaming at NAMCO BANDAI (2006-2014) Answered October 4, 2017 I must say, these days are really, really tough, except if you plan to go the work-for-hire route (see below). All the app stores are saturated, be it on mobile or Steam. I ... Read more » How is the gaming industry profitable, if the titles are only sold once per user? Corey Cole, Small Business Owner at Transolar Games (2012-present) Answered August 13, 2017 I'm not sure the "gaming industry" is profitable. Some games are profitable, and some game industry companies are profitable based on those profitable games. Many other game... Read more » How much money, on average, do indie games earn? Corey Cole, Independent game software developer/entrepreneur Answered September 8, 2020 If by "earn" you mean gross revenues, the average indie game on Steam sells 2000 - 5000 units. If we assume $10 retail price, and take out Steam's 30% cut, that's gross rev... Read more » Search More on Quora

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