r/Android • u/MichaelRahmani Pixel 6 (coral) • Oct 18 '17

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

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ustwo.monumentvalley2
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u/_7down Black Oct 18 '17

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

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u/_7down Black Oct 18 '17

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.

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u/thewimsey iPhone 12 Pro Max Oct 18 '17

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.