So Apple want to enter the games industry and apparently the way you do that is to hire a two-person indie team and then release the game on a platform which has limited access.
I wouldn’t say it’s to enter the games industry. It seems to just integrate into Apple the flagship game of their existing Apple Arcade distribution service and guarantee the indie devs some stability.
Sony has sold approximately 150 million PS4/5. Assuming they’re ALL being played, and that Microsoft sold roughly the same number, that means that if roughly one in every five iPhone owners play games, there are equal numbers.
But A lot of it, I’m sure, comes down to what everybody considers gamers/games. Balatro? Unquestionably a game, does it count for your statistics? I don’t know. From my phone on a brief search, the total market was somewhere around 180 billion last year, and $90 billion of that was mobile, and Sony made $17.5 billion in services, though I’m not sure if that includes the actual consoles.
So Apple want to enter the games industry and apparently the way you do that is to hire a two-person indie team and then release the game on a platform which has limited access.
Oh they’re going to do reall well
I wouldn’t say it’s to enter the games industry. It seems to just integrate into Apple the flagship game of their existing Apple Arcade distribution service and guarantee the indie devs some stability.
There are more iPhones in the world than Xbox or PlayStation.
Yes but how many iPhone users are gamers Vs Xbox/Playstation users? 🤔
Capital G-amers on consoles are a smaller market than Mobile thanks to Gacha and Casuals.
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Sony has sold approximately 150 million PS4/5. Assuming they’re ALL being played, and that Microsoft sold roughly the same number, that means that if roughly one in every five iPhone owners play games, there are equal numbers.
But A lot of it, I’m sure, comes down to what everybody considers gamers/games. Balatro? Unquestionably a game, does it count for your statistics? I don’t know. From my phone on a brief search, the total market was somewhere around 180 billion last year, and $90 billion of that was mobile, and Sony made $17.5 billion in services, though I’m not sure if that includes the actual consoles.
2-person-studio
and?
Many great games have been created by 2-person studios