97% of Epic Games revenue
From the documents of the trial, it appears that Fortnite brought in 5,477 billion dollars in 2021 and 3,709 billion in 2021, that is to say 9,186 billion in turnover in two years on a single game. Comparing these figures with the results of Epic Games , we understand that the game represents almost all of his income.
Indeed, the publisher earned 5,628 billion dollars in 2021 and 4,221 billion in 2021. A quick calculation allows to conclude that Fornite accounted for 97,32% of Epic Games revenue in 2021 and 87,87% in 2021.
Remember that Epic Games is also the publisher of Rocket League since the takeover of Psyonix in 2021 and especially the developer of the Unreal Engine, a game engine used by a huge part of the video game industry. Unreal Engine revenue was only $ 124 million in 2021 and $ 97 million in 2021.
The Epic Game Store is not close to being profitable
We know that Epic Games is spending a lot of money to make its PC game store more popular. The Epic Game Store spent $ 11 million to offer games to users for 9 months and it is several hundred million dollars that the company has spent on exclusives and other offers to developers to continue this growth in 2021. Obviously , with so much investment the store is not yet profitable for Epic Games.
“Is the Epic Games Store currently profitable?” asks lawyer.
No, says Sweeney. It’s “hundreds of millions of dollars short of being profitable” because of the upfront costs of setting it up.
“We have a general expectation of becoming profitable within 3 or 4 years."
— Adi Robertson (@thedextriarchy) May 3, 2021
On the subject, Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney was pretty clear during his testimony at trial. The Epic Games Store isn't profitable today, and the publisher doesn't expect it to be for at least 3 or 4 years. See you in 2024 to discover the future of the store.
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