The cherry that keeps on popping. Nope, nope that sounds wrong. But a Silksong expansion and a Hollow Knight update for free is beyond gratuitous. Those figurines also look crisp for that price...
The cherry that keeps on popping. Nope, nope that sounds wrong.
But a Silksong expansion and a Hollow Knight update for free is beyond gratuitous.
Those figurines also look crisp for that price point.
Hard to believe Silksong launched at a $20 price point and continues to grow like this. Though with 7 million sales plus whatever they make on game pass they're swimming in money and likely don't need more (I guess?), and it sounds like they're going to use that pool of cash give back more instead. Somewhat rare.
I researched how much money the original Hollow Knight made for another thread. Looks like it made $89 million! All that split among only 3 developers! Anything extra they do is just for fun at...
I researched how much money the original Hollow Knight made for another thread. Looks like it made $89 million! All that split among only 3 developers! Anything extra they do is just for fun at this point.
Yeah theirs is a success story. It's how they were able to turn a DLC for the original Hollow Knight into a full game taking 7 years to make. They had more than enough money and trust to take...
Yeah theirs is a success story. It's how they were able to turn a DLC for the original Hollow Knight into a full game taking 7 years to make. They had more than enough money and trust to take their time.
I'm not going to say that they aren't each likely to be independently wealthy, but probably each of them was left with less than $10 million out of that. Between a 30% platform cut, operating...
I'm not going to say that they aren't each likely to be independently wealthy, but probably each of them was left with less than $10 million out of that. Between a 30% platform cut, operating costs (including likely a percentage of revenue cost for using Unity as the programming language), subcontractor costs (note that the credits are much longer than the list of three people at that link) business revenue taxes, personal income taxes, etc...
The founders are certainly in a place where they can work at their own paces for the rest of their lives without a lot of financial concerns, but they're definitely only in the seven digits apiece.
All very good points! But I doubt this: The $89 million number for all platforms was as of last year, and when I checked the article's source (vginsights), they've made $23 million from just Steam...
All very good points! But I doubt this:
they're definitely only in the seven digits apiece.
The $89 million number for all platforms was as of last year, and when I checked the article's source (vginsights), they've made $23 million from just Steam in the past year! As CptBlueBear mentioned, besides from selling units, they're also getting some money from Game Pass. Then there's also merch, which as George Lucas knew, and Spaceballs famously satirized, is a great revenue source. Then you can't forget the soundtrack. You might not think a ton of people buy those game soundtracks on Steam, but I just checked and I have 3 friends who've bought it. They even have a separate soundtrack available for one of the DLCs.
All this without saying, they just released another massive hit, Silksong, which was the #1 most wishlisted game on Steam, and crashed all the big storefronts at once. If they didn't have $10 million before, they probably do now.
Blog article here:
https://www.teamcherry.com.au/blog/holiday2025
The cherry that keeps on popping. Nope, nope that sounds wrong.
But a Silksong expansion and a Hollow Knight update for free is beyond gratuitous.
Those figurines also look crisp for that price point.
Hard to believe Silksong launched at a $20 price point and continues to grow like this. Though with 7 million sales plus whatever they make on game pass they're swimming in money and likely don't need more (I guess?), and it sounds like they're going to use that pool of cash give back more instead. Somewhat rare.
I researched how much money the original Hollow Knight made for another thread. Looks like it made $89 million! All that split among only 3 developers! Anything extra they do is just for fun at this point.
Yeah theirs is a success story. It's how they were able to turn a DLC for the original Hollow Knight into a full game taking 7 years to make. They had more than enough money and trust to take their time.
I'm not going to say that they aren't each likely to be independently wealthy, but probably each of them was left with less than $10 million out of that. Between a 30% platform cut, operating costs (including likely a percentage of revenue cost for using Unity as the programming language), subcontractor costs (note that the credits are much longer than the list of three people at that link) business revenue taxes, personal income taxes, etc...
The founders are certainly in a place where they can work at their own paces for the rest of their lives without a lot of financial concerns, but they're definitely only in the seven digits apiece.
All very good points! But I doubt this:
The $89 million number for all platforms was as of last year, and when I checked the article's source (vginsights), they've made $23 million from just Steam in the past year! As CptBlueBear mentioned, besides from selling units, they're also getting some money from Game Pass. Then there's also merch, which as George Lucas knew, and Spaceballs famously satirized, is a great revenue source. Then you can't forget the soundtrack. You might not think a ton of people buy those game soundtracks on Steam, but I just checked and I have 3 friends who've bought it. They even have a separate soundtrack available for one of the DLCs.
All this without saying, they just released another massive hit, Silksong, which was the #1 most wishlisted game on Steam, and crashed all the big storefronts at once. If they didn't have $10 million before, they probably do now.
True, true. That was definitely a pre-Silksong calculation.
... did anyone else go straight to the Silksong subreddit to spy on the silksanity?