
Of the games that do actually make it through to production, however, an astoundingly low 20 per cent of them actually make a "significant profit".
EEDAR blames the lack of profits on the fact that game developers and publishers tend to spend over 60 per cent of the allotted game-making budget on redesigning aspects of a game until deemed ready for action. EEDAR co-founder Geoffrey Zatkin even went as far as saying developers had "gone in blind as to which features would sell the game better".
Perhaps, however, in times of economic turmoil, developers would do better to turn their attention more to the task of making games profitable, rather than face a possible game over.