Re:Things Apple Isn’t Doing
by _venkatasg on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @06:37PM
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I don’t know much about servers and cloud, so I’ll just stick to the first point: gaming. Apple is already in one of the largest gaming markets(if not the largest) - handheld gaming. The number of people playing candy crush and fortnite is much, much more than Red Dead Redemption 2, and Apple is more than happy to take in 30% of all those in app purchases. Yes, it would be nice if Apple made a PlayStation class console, but I’m pretty sure they won’t. The people at Apple are interested in serving casual gamers, and it already makes more money than most AAA gaming, so why invest in making a serious console when you could make that money from pay-to-win games?
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Apple doesn't make nearly as much money from gaming as the big-dogs in gaming (XBox and ilk) make. Apple's 30% cut of app-store revenues for 2018 was about $12.5B, and I'm sure most of it is not from gaming. While Xbox raked in $10B for MSFT
Re:Things Apple Isn’t Doing
by 1123581321 on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @05:48PM
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50-75% of Apple’s App Store revenue is gaming. That’s a lot. Apple expands the gaming market with their products, so they don’t need to be as big as Microsoft and Sony because they aren’t fighting “the console wars.” Besides, comparing Apple’s software revenue to Microsoft’s hardware plus software doesn’t make sense. Surely some fraction of iPads, Macs, Apple TVs and potential new hardware should count as gaming purchases.
By that definition, Microsoft also makes a ton from gaming on the PC, as both a publisher and distributor of games.
One could argue that a large percentage of premium desktops and laptops choose windows for gaming compatibility and attribute a part of Windows revenues to gaming too. But that would be gaming numbers!
I think it fair to compare app store gaming revenues to consoles, as NO ONE buys an iPhone for gaming. They happen to (casual) game on the device they have on them in bed, or on the train, or everywhere.
Re:Things Apple Isn’t Doing
by EduardoBautista on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @01:36AM
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A few years ago games were around 75% of the app store’s revenue.