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Should I ship a Split Screen Shooter?
Shooter + Split Screen
Of 45 developers who shipped a Split Screen Shooter in the last 2 years: 3 in 10 made under est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., the middle one made est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 4 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 20 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 70 more are announced, ×3.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $660, level with the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $150; 1 in 20 cleared $44k, ×71 the market median. Revenue is down 70% on the market; 70 games are announced against 23 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $150 (exactly $150) |
|---|---|
| Median | $657 (exactly $657) |
| Top 25% | $3.3k (exactly $3,297) |
| Top 5% | $44k (exactly $44,426) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 45 |
| Released games | 170 |
| Announced | 70 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $7.99 |
momentum: how a niche's revenue percentiles and developer count moved between two equal, adjacent periods, divided by the market's own move. See method., 12 months: revenue down 70% on the market, supply as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 9%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Shooter
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Split Screen
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Shooter, Split Screen; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Local Co-Op, Local Multiplayer
- Price point
- $7.99 typical · top 25% priced $12.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 3D
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $12.99 or above; the middle game at $7.99.
The top 10 games average 88% positive over 1,466 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $150. Nearly all of the 24 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 70 games are announced against 23 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Call of Duty®: Black Ops III 2015 · $284M 
Resident Evil 6 2013 · $31M 
Resident Evil 5 2009 · $29M 
Serious Sam 3: BFE 2011 · $20M 
Gears 5 2019 · $19M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Call of Duty®: Black Ops III | older | $59.99 | 157,694 88% | 4.7M | $284M (exactly $283,801,892) | Treyarch, Aspyr (Mac) |
| | Resident Evil 6 | older | $19.99 | 51,420 77% | 1.5M | $31M (exactly $30,836,574) | Capcom |
| | Resident Evil 5 | older | $19.99 | 48,521 87% | 1.5M | $29M (exactly $29,098,044) | Capcom |
| | Serious Sam 3: BFE | older | $29.99 | 21,834 87% | 655k | $20M (exactly $19,644,050) | Croteam |
| | Gears 5 | older | $29.99 | 21,210 72% | 636k | $19M (exactly $19,082,637) | The Coalition |
 | The Ascent | older | $29.99 | 19,235 74% | 577k | $17M (exactly $17,305,730) | Neon Giant |
 | EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 | older | $59.99 | 9,375 93% | 281k | $17M (exactly $16,872,188) | SANDLOT |
 | Stick Fight: The Game | older | $4.99 | 99,952 93% | 3.0M | $15M (exactly $14,962,814) | Landfall West |
 | STAR WARS™: Battlefront Classic Collection | older | $35.01 | 7,125 23% | 214k | $7.5M (exactly $7,483,388) | Aspyr |
 | Amazing Frog? | · EA older | $19.99 | 11,169 94% | 335k | $6.7M (exactly $6,698,049) | Fayju |
 | Together: Moon Escape | $9.99 | 868 90% | 26k | $260k (exactly $260,140) | CarlosGameDev | |
 | Escape From Mandrillia: Local Asymmetric VR+PC | $12.99 | 181 95% | 5.4k | $71k (exactly $70,536) | German Bandera | |
 | MeowGun: Hell Denizen | $12.99 | 114 98% | 3.4k | $44k (exactly $44,426) | SusaDeBastet | |
 | Containment Initiative 2 | $14.99 | 89 85% | 2.7k | $40k (exactly $40,023) | Gwyn Games LLC | |
 | Lurking Danger | $11.99 | 49 65% | 1.5k | $18k (exactly $17,625) | Farelas | |
 | Spaceflux | $4.99 | 73 57% | 2.2k | $11k (exactly $10,928) | Calin Ardelean | |
 | Chaos on Wheels | $9.99 | 34 67% | 1.0k | $10k (exactly $10,190) | Acodeon Development | |
 | Exo Wanderers | · EA | $11.99 | 22 100% | 660 | $7.9k (exactly $7,913) | 什工坊SueStudio |
 | Animosity | $14.99 | 15 93% | 450 | $6.7k (exactly $6,746) | Red River Studio | |
 | The Henchmen | $9.99 | 21 76% | 630 | $6.3k (exactly $6,294) | Alex Von Bronx |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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