Alright, because I don't know much about these games, I'll go as high as $300,000 in revenue every day. But no way it makes more than $200,000 every day.

Ok so assuming Candy Crush Saga is basically like the cocaine of smartphone games, MAYBE it makes like $100,000 a day, right? Or, maybe I'm ignorant and it makes like $200,000 per day. This sounds an awful lot like how cocaine and heroin are monetized. The levels get harder and harder and therefore more addictive. The game is free at first but players can use real money to purchase extra lives and new levels. The object of the game is to match three or more same-color candy icons in a row by swiping your finger around obstacles. The game board is a giant screen filled with candy icons of varying colors. Well, apparently I'm a complete idiot.Ĭandy Crush Saga is sort of like a combination of Tetris and Connect Four. That would still be and absolutely mind numbing $16.425 million per year from a silly little smartphone app. So, considering their respective rankings, hopefully you understand how a reasonable person like myself might guess Candy Crush makes a little bit less money per day than Flappy Bird, right? Maybe Candy Crush makes $40,000 a day. Admittedly, I have never played Candy Crush or Flappy Bird but I'm a fairly intelligent person who is pretty well informed when it comes to digital technology and news. As of FebruCandy Crush Saga is the sixth most popular game on Android and the 27th most popular game on iTunes. Just to re-iterate, Flappy Bird was making $50,000 a day as the number one game in the world on both iTunes and Android. Apparently the game's creator, a 29 year old developer in Vietnam, was sick of dealing with the headaches and hassle of having such an enormously popular property. It was pretty obvious that Flappy Bird had stolen the core of its game from a few competitors. Before being shut down, Flappy Bird was the number one game on both the iTunes and Android platforms. Candy Crush Revenues Per Day / PHILIPPE HUGUEN/AFP/Getty ImagesĪ little more than a month ago we posted an article about how the creator of a game called Flappy Bird had decided to shut down his app despite the fact that it was generating $50,000 a day in revenues.

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