The Epic Games Store lost $131 million in exclusive games

across the Epic vs. a lawsuit against Apple She revealed some financial details we might have never known otherwise. We now know Epic better thanks to publicly available court documents. So far, the company behind Fortnite and Unreal Engine and Co has spent about $444 million to secure exclusive deals with game publishers — including minimal guarantees that Epic will have to cover if the game doesn’t generate the required revenue.

We didn’t even know how much money Epic was getting, though Simon Karls document Twitter Posted. It seems that the loss on the investment is 131 million dollars.

Epic Games Store: Document shows what you’ve earned from exclusive games

The Carless joint document shows different games released on the Epic Games Store since 2019. You can see how much revenue the game has generated and how much Epic is expected to earn.

Putting the totals together, Epic spent $217 million on minimal warranties but only got back $86 million. That equates to a $131 million shortfall, so Epic has only recovered about 40 percent of its investment in exclusive games.

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Due to the joint document, we don’t know which games lost Epic the most. Game titles are withheld, so we don’t know which games are Epic’s biggest winners or losers, but there are release dates for them.

This was invited by a Reddit user named MrBubbaJ on the scene, who added the necessary cross-references.

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Epic Games Store exclusives: Was Metro Exodus a fiasco?

brave And illness The big winners should be on this table. However, Epic put a lot of money in their hands in two games – and apparently lost: subway displacement And Section 2. The latest Metro segment was wasted $22.2 million, and The Division 2 topped it with $24.5 million.

Ubisoft’s last title probably didn’t bring in the hopeful margin either: year 1800. There may be another 14 million dollars grown there.

Suspension

The future will determine whether Epic will stick to the exclusive games. However, it would not be possible to stop Steam’s dominance of the PC platform without investments. With Fortnite, you currently earn a lot of money, as well as with Unreal Engine. So it will be “in”, as the saying goes.