So, while Snail Games competes with Sony and Microsoft in video game sales, the two platforms are also essential to keeping the developer afloat, with Snail Games making $13.6 million on Xbox and $9 million on PlayStation in the first half of 2022 alone. These platform partners " retain between 12% - 30% of the gross revenue" generated by Snail Games' titles, with the rest divided between Snail Games and their contributing developers. In December 2021, Snail Games registered 91% of its revenue through third-party platforms such as Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network. The sequel, ARK 2, starring Hollywood actor Vin Diesel is currently slated for a 2023 release and in October 2022 developer Snail Games USA (which bought original ARK developer Project Wildcard in 2015) provided insight into the ongoing war between PlayStation Plus and Xbox Game Pass and demonstrated firsthand how much these streaming platforms mean to Sony and Microsoft respectively. Xbox and Sony have been compared since the launch of the original Xbox in 2001 and the two brands are now the leading lights in an industry worth over $50 billion.ĪRK: Survival Evolved is a multiplayer survival game where the player characters wake up naked on a prehistoric beach with a high-tech crystal embedded in them. In January 2022 Xbox Game Pass surpassed 25 million subscribers, while still someway off PlayStation Plus' 47.4 million subscribers ( as of March 2022), this figure continues to rise and is a sign of Microsoft's consistently growing success in the video game streaming service market.
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