Meta Quest income figures for VR video games and apps revealed

Throughout the Meta Join keynote, the corporate offered vital insights into how a lot income VR software program is producing on the Quest retailer.

In response to the corporate, the Meta Quest retailer has earned $1.5 billion in income on video games and apps since Could 2019. Which means throughout 40 months, the shop has averaged $37.5 million in income. In response to Meta’s monetary reporting, the corporate earned roughly $242.6 billion in income throughout this time interval. This implies VR software program gross sales accounted for about 0.6% of Meta’s whole income throughout the final 40 months.

Meta highlighted the efficiency of its prime titles. Blade & Sorcery: Nomad reached $1 million in income in two days. Each Zenith: The Final Metropolis and Resident Evil 4 bested that, making $1 million and $2 million respectively in beneath 24 hours. Nonetheless the not too long ago launched BONELAB outperformed all of them, incomes $1 million in lower than an hour. That’s about 25,000 gross sales in 60 minutes.

In fact, Meta additionally wished to emphasise that their titles have endurance. Because it’s October 2020 launch, The Strolling Useless: Saints & Sinners has introduced in over $50 million in income. The Meta Quest retailer accounted for almost half of the sport’s lifetime income, displaying the worth {the marketplace} can ship for VR publishers.

This stage of success can be not completely out of the unusual for titles on the Meta Quest retailer. Of the almost 400 apps, one in three have made a minimum of $1 million in income. Additionally, 33 titles have revamped $10 million in income, up from 22 in February 2022.

To construct on this momentum, Meta additionally introduced a number of studio acquisitions to develop extra software program for its VR platform. Camouflaj, Twisted Pixel and Armature Studio are set to affix Meta’s rising record of owned VR studios.