Playdate developers have collectively earned over $500,000 by selling their titles on the console's Catalog marketplace Come from Soccer 13 pools and matches . Panic shared the news to celebrate the first anniversary of the storefront.
The Playdate maker sold over 150,000 titles via Catalog over the past year, generating precisely $544,290 in gross revenue for developers after taxes, processing fees, and Panic's 25 percent distribution fee.
Playdate owners in the USA, UK, Germany, Canada, and Japan contributed the bulk of those sales. 1,500 purchases were made during the recent Catalog Anniversary Sale, during which the average game price dropped to $4.50 from $5.36. Offering some other interesting tidbits, Panic revealed the average size of catalog titles is currently 5.03MB. The smallest game weighs in at just 30.1KB, while the largest currently stands at 107MB.