sixteen-bit
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Impressive numbers.
You want to pay for Tetris when there are thousands Flash based copies for free?
You want to pay for Tetris when there are thousands Flash based copies for free?
I can't recall the exact details but I think Tetris on Gameboy was the first version of the game in which the rights- the proper rights- unlike the one Tengen had of the game- to publish the title with Atari. According to the Wiki Nintendo sued Tengen but the water was still muddy about where Tetris was.
I'll have to look up the exact details.
He could be a billionaire before that.
Did Pajitnov get any of that? He could be a billionaire.
Even if it's actually a quarter of that number, that's still 100 million+ idiots who bought a twitch puzzle game that has no buttons. It boggles my mind how people can buy these classic games designed around buttons in their touch phones. Makes zero sense to me.
EDIT - according to Wikipedia he's the co-owner. He must have hundreds of millions of dollars from the game by now. I wonder if he's lived off it ever since the Game Boy days.
The version on iPhone is an abomination, I feel bad for my nearly half a billion brothers and sisters.
"Mobile" probably includes the feature phone releases. Tetris was really one of the few playable games on those old things.
425 million * $0.99 purchase from App store = $420.75 million in gross revenue * 70% goes to the publisher = $294.5 million in revenue from purchases
GamesBeat: How much of that is really recent? It sounds like a lot of it would be on smartphones?
Rogers: It’s really spread over the whole period where phones have become able to play games. That first happened in Japan. Then it sprang up in the U.S. and Korea and other places. That’s a total number over the last 14 years or so.
And it probably doesn't come close to how popular it was when it first came out. I never heard of seen anyone playing Tetris Mobile.
There were probably billions of these and other clones around
Holy shit nostalgia brick!And it probably doesn't come close to how popular it was when it first came out. I never heard of seen anyone playing Tetris Mobile.
There were probably billions of these and other clones around
425 million is super cool - Tetris is definitely one of the pillars of the puzzle game franchise.
Although it should be noted that this figure includes ALL mobile releases of Tetris, including stuff pre-iPhone:
425 million * $0.99 purchase from App store = $420.75 million in gross revenue * 70% goes to the publisher = $294.5 million in revenue from purchases
We even have a Tetris game show here in Flanders.
there are way too many mobiles around....
It should be more of a mystery when Tetris does not sell. Everyone loves Tetris. Your mom loves Tetris. Even your dog loves Tetris.
We even have a Tetris game show here in Flanders.
It's been on the air for over 20 years (over 4000 episodes) and counting, and the show has a market share of 45%!
There's also a Korean game show as well (referred as Hangame Tetris) in co-operation with NHN Corporation and an online game based on it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo_iZKiupMc
The game shut down on December of last year.