Microsoft Store for PC games to increase take home share for developers

Later this year Microsoft will follow in Epic stores footprints and provide developers a higher take home rate of games sold in their Microsoft Store for PC games
Microsoft Store for PC games to increase take home share for developers

Microsoft Store for PC games will increase developers share on sales to 88%, from 70% on August 1st

When Epic Games Store released in December 2018, they put their share of sales to 12%. Down from 30% which was the the common rates for stores at the time

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From 30% to 12%

Most digital stores have taken a 30% cut on everything sold through their stores, but the last few years we've seen more and more stores lowering this percentage. At least for developers who sell for less than a certain amount yearly. Microsoft is now going down to 12% for Microsoft Store for PC games (no word for Xbox games)

Apple lowered their rates for smaller developers to 15% last year, for developers with a revenue below US$1 million in annual net sales. Apple still takes 30% of the sales for the ones above this revenue. Google is also lowering their rate to 15% for developers with less than US$1 million in annual net sales starting July 1st, beyond that will still be on 30%



Source: Xbox

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