Most games, however, do not make a great deal of money. Each month, thousands of new games are made available on Steam and in the App Store, and, although Apple boasted in 2012 that it had paid out a billion dollars to app and game developers the previous year, Forbes estimates that the average game earns just four thousand dollars. Nevertheless, if your game becomes a hit…
The Guilt of the Video-Game Millionaires – The New Yorker
This is an upbeat article about the lucky ones, I’ve extracted the paragraph that is the majority cloud to the sliver-of-silver lining.