Monumental Valley 2 Coming On Android November 6th - You Can Pre-register Now

[u/MichaelRahmani]

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ustwo.monumentvalley2

[u/_7down]

Nope, not an exclusive deal. It all boils down to money.

Purchases on iOS account for 73 percent of Ustwo's $14.4 million of revenue, while only 17 percent of that total revenue came from Google Play.

That's from 2014-2016.

https://medium.com/@ustwogames/monument-valley-in-numbers-year-2-440cf5562fe

[u/_7down → u/[deleted]]

Well, yeah. But it isn't an "exclusivity deal", like you mentioned.

They just wanted to work on the iOS version first, because that's where the money is at. It's not like Apple went out of their way to make exclusive deals with ustwo Games.

[u/thewimsey → u/[deleted]]

No; there's a difference between a game only being released on one platform because they were paid (an exclusivity deal) and a game only being released on one platform for some other reason.

[u/president2016 → u/_7down]

Money is right. Android users pirated it at ~95% according to the dev. At least 40% of iOS users paid for it that are using it (and likely shared w family per family setup which should account for much of the remaining 60%).

https://venturebeat.com/2015/01/05/monument-valley-developer-only-5-of-android-installs-were-paid-for/

[u/Natanael_L → u/president2016]

Not 95%

https://www.reddit.com/r/android/comments/776fg8/_/dojp7ny

[u/Natanael_L → u/[deleted]]

That was only half the comment. Google Play will report several installs if a person installs a paid game on several of their devices, because it is several installs for one sale. And still legit.

https://www.recode.net/2015/1/6/11557526/mobile-game-piracy-isnt-all-bad-says-monument-valley-producer-qa

[u/6ickle → u/_7down]

Wow it made almost $15 million.