Unity - 47% of Developers use Unity
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Untiy - 47% of Developers use Unity
What do you think to those statistics?
Source: - Vision Mobile, Developer Economics, State of the Developer Nation Q3, 2014
What do you think to those statistics?
Source: - Vision Mobile, Developer Economics, State of the Developer Nation Q3, 2014
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On mobile ? seems plausible to me ... unreal on mobile is pretty heavy AFAIK
Let's be honest, Unity is great for mobile games (and way better than Unreal in this area), because it's so flexible.
But if it would be "AAA-Developers using Unity" this chart would look a lot different.
It's obviously skewed, and this is why. People who develop generic apps lean towards generic solutions; for mobile games that means custom code and unity. It also massively depends where these app developers are being surveyed and how many of them were actually developing games (heck, it could be a sample of less than 100).
Developers working on hardcore mobile titles (like those that might use Unreal) are probably not hanging around whereever they survey app developers.
I'd expect custom solutions to be more popular than Unity, and those stats actually state that it is, but it looks like it has been deliberately biased by breaking 'native code' and 'custom solution' into two categories when they're usually effectively the same thing...
That poll is uselessly biased.
it would be more interesting to know what percentage of developers who released top 20 selling console or pc games used unity in the past 3 years? its probably half that percentage.
Either way, there hasn't been a better time to get into game dev then now, so many great tools available!
Now stop reading and make something!
Excluding, you know... More than maybe 10 or 15 years back.
I'm happy using Unity or Unreal or any other modern engine.
Plus tools like Blender, Artrage, Krita, TexturePacker, XNormal, Sketchbook...the list goes on and on. So many fantastic tools for free or dirt cheap.
:thumbup:
Excluding, you know... More than maybe 10 or 15 years back."
Yeah..awful..Clash of Clans is only pulling in a daily revenue of $1,412,270...and that's just the iphone, and that's just US..there is plenty of profit to be had..
the biggest problem seems to be the saturation, because every wanna be game dev can pump out horrible games..and the quality games get lost in the shit tornado.
Here's some numbers on daily revenue from the top grossing iphone games:
https://thinkgaming.com/app-sales-data/
It shouldnt be a suprise that devs use Unity more than Unreal in this instance, they've been in this market longer
Not to mention, the majority of the games you listed are AAA titles with massive marketing.
I've been wondering for a while if the situation will get better in coming years or not. I don't see the barrier of entry growing any time soon, so I guess it comes down to whether publishers like Steam improve their system so good games get more attention or continue letting them be lost in the shitnado.
You: You can't make money from Mobile games!
Me: Here's some people making money!
You: That's completely irrelavant
Would you tell someone there's good money to be made developing a brand-new operating system, just because Bill Gates and Steve Jobs got rich off of it? It's insane.
Games like Clash of Clans had a lot of money invested into them, their staff and their infrastructure - they were also not new players (Clash of Clans was something like their fifth game, which is unusual; companies like Rovio produced loads before hitting it big). New startups rarely hit it big in mobile, you often have to have the cash at bank to survive.
You may have also noticed a trend where a lot of the super-successful mobile studios only really have one game. Even with millions of dollars at their disposal, they still fail to replicate their own success - that in itself should tell you something about the mobile market.
It's famously easy for devs to switch between the two and if you're an indie shop that needs to pick its battles, it becomes a no brainer. It also means you have a potentially larger talent pool to draw from.
Blueprints are awesome, but they don't do everything, there's not a lot of documentation on them, they're proprietary to UE4 and can become a nightmare to maintain.
Unity's still doing the best job at balancing power and accessibility.
PS. By the way according to online poll - 100% of people use internet
I dont think this reaction is due to elitism, its just a reaction to sly marketing, If the article read "the unity game engine is far more popular amongst mobile app developers than any other game development software" then I doubt anyone would be offended.
In this case it really is bad; it almost feels like it's deliberately presenting Unity as a wider used choice than it really is for the following reasons:
1) The survey is of 'App Developers' and not 'Game Developers'. We also do not know where this data was collected, but we presume the survey was largely advertised within app development communities.
2) The chart claims '47% of game developers', but as well all know there's more out there in terms of game developers than just mobile games. This is likely a problem of context rather than the chart itself, so I'll mention it but let it slide.
3) We don't know the sample size for this chart, it could be too small for the data to be meaningful. It could be less than 100 people.
4) The chart doesn't show 16% of responses, so a sixth of the data is missing entirely.
5) For some reason 'Native Code' and 'Custom Solution' have been split into two distinct categories when they are largely the same thing, making them appear more insignificant than they are.
There are about 6000 games on Steam total. As it turns out, I got my numbers wrong, it's 500 games on iOs per day, not per week; that difference is astronomical when you compare it to Steam's 60 per week / 9 per day.
There are a lot of games releasing on Steam each day, and many of them don't fare well. I think we need to be honest about those games and why they fail - it is usually because they are not that great, and / or they are poorly presented or marketed. On iOS you can have a great game, but it's entirely possible nobody will ever even see it, because it's utterly buried in a torrent of shit from the moment it goes live.
As it happens, the data this chart is from also claims that 57% of mobile games failed to make any real money.