Listing of Public Sales Numbers

[milkmangames]

It's always fantastic when developers share their stories, and better when they share their revenue charts. It's not hard to find articles about how much top 10 games earn per day, or breakout successes, but while they make much better news stories they aren't the norm.

I'd like to start a thread to compile data on revenue expectations for games that aren't breakaway hits (99.9999% of them). Another data point (though a moving target) that would be interesting to compile is a chart > sales ratio, ie, 'the #3,924th ranked Strategy Game makes about $2 a day').

I'll start us off with an old one - Dapple.

http://www.streamingcolour.com/blog/...s-post-part-2/ [date: 2009]
http://www.gamesbrief.com/2011/06/sp...n-iphone-game/ [date: 2011]
http://overpoweredgames.com/?p=203 [date: 2011]
http://www.gamesbrief.com/2011/08/se...res-in-detail/ [date:2011]
http://bartoszciechanowski.com/2011/...l-post-mortem/ portaball (2010)
http://www.cascadiagames.com/images/...ales_ranks.png cavorite (2011)
http://strayrobotgames.com/2011/08/o...the-app-store/ wooords (2011)
http://www.thundergameworks.com/ranking.tgw trenches (2011)

[milkmangames]

http://www.gamesbrief.com/2011/06/sp...n-iphone-game/ [2011] (and wooh to another milk themed game co!)

[JTown]

FishMoto http://overpoweredgames.com/?p=203 (2011)

[Sinecure Industries]

Thanks for sharing! My charts all look like that too

[Hollyweird Zombies]

Thanks for sharing. Interesting info.

[Aruki]

Great thread!!! and thx for sharing!!!

[Rubicon]

Great Little War Game: Also from gamesbrief

EDIT: Was reading some of those links. Who the hell gets half a million signees to a newsletter? OMG! We have about 1200 and there's a subscribe button in the main menu!

[Stroffolino]

Thanks Paul,
That's a fascinating read, and shatters some myths!

There's definitely a lot to be said for word of mouth, once an app with lots of fans has achieved a certain level of saturation.

Phil

Originally Posted by Rubicon

Great Little War Game: Also from gamesbrief

EDIT: Was reading some of those links. Who the hell gets half a million signees to a newsletter? OMG! We have about 1200 and there's a subscribe button in the main menu!

[Attollos Technologies]

Originally Posted by milkmangames

It's always fantastic when developers share their stories, and better when they share their revenue charts. It's not hard to find articles about how much top 10 games earn per day, or breakout successes, but while they make much better news stories they aren't the norm.

I'd like to start a thread to compile data on revenue expectations for games that aren't breakaway hits (99.9999% of them). Another data point (though a moving target) that would be interesting to compile is a chart > sales ratio, ie, 'the #3,924th ranked Strategy Game makes about $2 a day').

I'll start us off with an old one - Dapple.

http://www.streamingcolour.com/blog/...s-post-part-2/ [date: 2009]
http://www.gamesbrief.com/2011/06/sp...n-iphone-game/ [date: 2011]
http://overpoweredgames.com/?p=203 [date: 2011]

I know $200 odd a month isn't that much, but if you get a few games out and they're all consistently netting that much, income could build up?

Interesting read though thanks for sharing!

[Aruki]

This one is quite old, but nevertheless interesting!

http://struct.ca/2010/the-story-so-far/