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What? The video games is nearly a $200 billion dollar industry[0] and Unity is one if the most popular engines, if not the most. How is that a “mountain with no

• chowells 4y ago
  There's lots of money, but it doesn't go to developers. The big profits go to publishers. If you're selling tools to developers, you'd better hope they're able to pass the cost along to the publisher. If they can't, they're not going to be able to pay anything significant for your tools.
• foobiekr 4y ago
  That may be true, but you just need to look at Unity's financials to see what fraction of the games market flows to them. https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/U/key-statistics?p=U https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/U/key-statistics?p=U It's not _terrible_ but it's not great.
• yywwbbn 4y ago
  However most users of Unity don’t make very much money if any at all. So unless they switch to a revenue share based model (instead of fixed license pricing) $200 billion is not that meaningful.
• pjmlp 4y ago
  Just like in any kind of arts, it might be worth millions, but only for a selected few. There are plenty of street performers that can hardly play the rent.
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• munificent 4y ago
  There's a lot of money in games, yes, but much of that flows into large game studios using their own engines and the production costs are also high. Unity is primarily used by smaller game developers and there is much less money available there.
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