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Does Nintendo take a 50% cut if you publish on their eShop?



It's most likely around 30% which seems to be the norm for stores like this


Epic’s store is 12%. Tim Sweeney tweeted that Epic take 5% as profit and the rest are costs[1].

Puts the other stores’ 30% in context, though Xbox/Playstation/Nintendo do significantly more QA than Epic.

[1] https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/112044179501033881...


Also, physical retail distribution is likely around the same 30% ballpark.


And is why Apple chose 30% when they launched the app store; it was already an acceptable charge, and could be justified with storage/bandwidth costs and the suite of tools/services built for it.

That doesn't seem to line up in my books, but we'll see how the next few years go while the 30% commission standard still has a target on its back.


For a console game you'd have to pay a 10-20% title fee and then the retailer also takes 30-40%.




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