How much money has ConcernedApe raked in so far?

[Roadster]

I and my friend are having a debate over whether ConcernedApe has made more than 50,000,000$. I'm on the side insisting that no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ way nowhere near that whereas ma friend saying its beyond the sum.

Anyone has idea?

[Vroomi]

http://www.gamerevolution.com/features/13384-stardew-valleys-single-developer-has-made-over-30-million#/slide/1

Over $30 million, apparently.

[Roadster]

Originally posted by vroom vroom:

http://www.gamerevolution.com/features/13384-stardew-valleys-single-developer-has-made-over-30-million#/slide/1

Over $30 million, apparently.

AND U SAYIN ITS A YEAR AGO?

now that the game has made its way into N. Switch as well.....

50 million, what do you say folks

[Vroomi]

Originally posted by crclim:

Originally posted by vroom vroom:

http://www.gamerevolution.com/features/13384-stardew-valleys-single-developer-has-made-over-30-million#/slide/1

Over $30 million, apparently.

AND U SAYIN ITS A YEAR AGO?

now that the game has made its way into N. Switch as well.....

50 million, what do you say folks

Maybe 40m.

[Nakos]

Originally posted by Riedy:

Steam gets a cut for putting it on their website and Chucklefish gets another cut for publishing it (and other companies for console sales). On Steam, there have been 3.4m sales for the game. On average a purchase should have cost $10. So the game should have made at least $34m on Steam alone and console sales could bring that number up to $50m.

Yeah, Riedy has an important point there. The sales don't all go to CA. Steam gets a cut, so does Chucklefish. And do do the feds.

And the game isn't always selling for "full retail". A non-trivial quantity of the purchases are during sales, when the price is about $10. I believe SDV has been part of the Humble Bundle too.

Has CA made a huge pile of money from the game? Sure. Does he have $35 million? I'd guess probably not. I wouldn't want to specualte how much he has, but do keep in mind that "sales" and "profits" aren't the same thing.

[wilco64256]

The trick here is that you're talking about how much ConcernedApe has made. Assuming standard profit splits with distributors and Chucklefish, ConcernedApe probably only gets around 50-60% of the gross sales of the product. So even if it has grossed around $50 million, he's only going to walk away with around $25-$30 million of that before the tax collector shows up.