Blizzard: most profitable games studio: makes > RM4.5 billion yearly
The creators of the wildly popular online role playing game (RPG) World of Warcraft (WoW), Blizzard Entertainment, is the world’s most profitable games studio.
World of Warcraft has more than 10 million subscribers worldwide – an incredible number; for sure they communicate via live chat software during gameplay.
Blizzard’s revenues is more than USD1.34 BILLION (more than RM4.5 billion) every year.
Trailing behind in the profitability game is
- Nintendo
- Rockstar North (of Grand Theft Auto fame)
- EA Canada (this is the highest placed amongst 14 of Electronic Arts’ developer studios which made the top 100 – EA is the world’s 2nd biggest games publisher)
- Capcom
- Ubisoft Montreal
- Treyarch
- Infinity Ward (this and Treyarch alternate the creation of Call of Duty games)
- Epic Games
- Bethesda Softworks
Develop Magazine’s editor-in-chief Michael French said of WoW:
… truly penetrated pop culture, inspiring everything from web memes to episodes of The Simpsons, showing Blizzard’s ability to not only create compelling experiences but also court user expectations.
The highest mobile game developer in the list is PopCap at 35th.
Source
The BBC, 11th May 2009
