However, Sweeney says that Google's 30% cut is "disproportionate to the cost of the services these stores perform, such as payment processing, download bandwidth, and customer service."įortnite for Android Downloads Could Put Users Security At Risk Sweeney argues that profit-sharing, such as Microsoft or Nintendo's cut of Fortnite in-game purchases, is OK on gaming consoles "where there's enormous investment in hardware, often sold below cost, and marketing campaigns in broad partnership with publishers." Why not just make the game available directly to users, instead of having the store get between us and our customers and inject all kinds of cruft like that? It's a general criticism I have of the smartphone platforms right now." Whoever bought that ad in front of us is the top result when searching for Fortnite," Sweeney said in an interview with GamesBeat. "When you search for Fortnite on iOS, you'll often get PUBG or Minecraft ads. Moreover, one should not forget, by covering Android, Epic Games is targeting the other 85 percent of the world's smartphone audience with the release of Fortnite for Android. This should not be shocking as Fortnite on iOS made $15 million in just first three weeks.
Second, since Google takes a 30 percent cut of revenue each time a user makes an in-app purchase through its Play Store, the decision will allow the company to save millions.
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