Infinity Blade Epic's 'most profitable game'

Someone in the near future will be speaking a voice recorded message talking about the rise and fall of electronic gaming.  Maybe they will have it on barns and noble for 5 bux release date 2025...

$30mil for the who franchise.  Heck--call it $40 mil now since it is several months later.  And that was total revenue.  Gears of War franchise has had about $1000mil in total revenue.  only 25x as much. 

The thing about mobile games is that they're quickly becoming "good enough" that it's difficult to justify purchasing and carrying a portable as well.  Super Street Fighter IV 3D got great reviews, but I'm really impressed with Street Fighter IV Volt on I-phone.  Of course it isn't AS good...but it's $7 and my I-phone is always on me anyway.  Is it worth it to spend $40 and cart around a whole other device?

The game is bundle with together on iphone 4S maxis launch, but currently I'm holding it off cause I'm gonna get myself the upcoming Iphone 5 :P

Kinda sad, I wanted a PS Vita, but my Dad is watching, on the other hand, when I'm playing Real Football 2012 on my HTC One X, my dad doesn't even flinched, he smashed my PSP 3 years ago which made me very cautious on buying a handheld console, seeing this brings me comfort that the upcoming Iphone is my primary target due to its multi-function, slick design, small size and pretty games like Infinity Blade. Is not that I don't support PSP or Vita, its the fact that my background don't allow such devices.

On the other hand, my dad have a fond for Infinity Blade since its on his Iphoen 3GS :|, ironic considered he doesn't know hoe to jailbreak it in the first place.

i think it's pretty OK since they can always use the profit they made in Infinity Blade to develop new AAA+ titles PC games.

And yet if Epic goes iOS only, they will never get a sale from me.

if game companies are sinking $100 mil into development for what they call AAA titles, then where the hell is the other $90 mil going to?

Mobile gaming will never take over the market, Sony  microsoft, nintendo etc. wont allow it, think by yourself do you want to play BF3 on a tiny screen ?  or the new GTA games ?  BTW if they really build a mobile phone with a GE-FORCE Nvidia graphics, still after playing  3 hours that pore smartphone will explode.

Do many realize purchasing mobile games will force you to give your phone info and other details. Ios and android. Ios at least you can choose to turn it off. Android i have yet to see an option. I I have tons of games on my ipad. I buy them only to play them either on the treadmill or while commuting. I just cant be sucked into it for more than 30mins. Just to shallow. Another developer trying to change the industry. If you stop listening to what these developers want and at least try to dictate them wisely with your wallet perhaps we have a brighter future for the core gamers. Casual gamers I dont have time to care about them. Let them spend on IAPs and F2P games. Happy gaming.

Mobile, social and F2P gaming is cancer, nothing will ever change that.

I'll prefer tablet free to play games over High end AAA PC titles in the near NEVER.

yet to see a good F2p, period.

perfect for the vita 

I didn't know it was 1983 again.

Oh...Come on guys

He said only 2 game out millions available in appstore.

What about the rest...huh?

So please just end it here.

is it just me or does every article this guy writes 2 sentences long? I see a topic that sounds interesting click on it only to find that there really isnt anything more to read than the title itself...

Its starting to sound like those of us who play the big budget games aren't really the "Core" of gamers anymore. So when Nintendo said they wanted to get the core gamers back with Wii U, they just meant they wanted to get those who play mobile games? :P

good game, certainly an achievement in terms of graphics and easy to play gameplay, but still fall way behind real portables with a huge difference in terms of replay value

Welcome to the generation of mobile games. Mobile devices are catching up quickly, with newer technology always coming out. Consoles on the other hand come out and stick around for years. Not saying I think console gaming or hardcore gaming is coming to an end, not at all. But instead I think hardcore gaming is having to move over and give it's little brother (casual games) some room.

Great!!! I hope devs and publishers realize tablet and phone gaming is where its at!! Can't wait till devs ditch consoles for tablets and phones.

Wow. Lots of hate towards Infinity Blade. Though its on the iphone its still one of the best games i played in a while. 

Meh, all I can say is if the gaming industry dumbs down to infinity blade like games being the main stream, I don't see myself buying many new games.  I have like 5 games on my iphone, two of them are what I would consider non-typical cell phone games.  Even though I have them, the only games I actually really play on my phone are tetris and solitaire. 

I don't really have down time in a setting where playing on my phone or a tablet comes up often but even if I did, I just can never really get into gaming on those.  Field Runners is probably the only other game I ever put any kind of time into.

Whatever happened to the phrase... "If I was doing something I love for the money... then I wouldn't be happy doing it..." ?

This bums me out.

Mobile gaming is only so successful at the moment because it is new/fresh. It wasnt that long ago that snake on a mobile was considered revolutionary. I cant see Free to Play lasting in the long run as its only guaranteed income is from advertising ingame etc. Due to it being new, there is very little to suggest that this advertising is actually drumming up business but big companies are willing to take a punt on it. Give it a couple more years and there will be fact and figures either that show the effectivness of these ads and im guessing they wont be pretty as a majority of users (myself included) avoid the adds at all costs.

Why isn't ever about how happy the dev's games are making the players?, all only seems to be about REVENUE. I would think everyone is well aware that title alone could sell a game "RE: ORC and Diablo 3". Im playing old classic greats for w/e system lately, the new games is all about the money "mostly". It seems every game is about graphics, its all about eye-candy and taking your fking money...

This sounds like what we were hearing back around the turn of the century - only it was PC games vs. console games.

Some of these developers are so ridiculous sometimes. You can't use the same business models that you're using for mobile devices and apply it towards consoles. They are nothing alike. The mobile device market (read: smartphones) is much bigger than the regular game industry. About 60% of all phone users in the U.S. are now carrying smartphones (this is a fact). So the potential install-base is much higher. Not to mention, the entire mobile gaming community is casual. There are no hardcore smartphone gamers out there, lol. Even if you're a hardcore console gamer, you're still gonna be a casual mobile gamer. Therefore, you can't use the same philosophy with mobile and console. They're so far apart and so different that I feel these publishers are gonna throw a big wrench into our gaming industry as we know it and basically try to make mobile-style games on the home console, which will fail miserably, along with free-to-play (ftp).

This doesn't mean that it make the more money than other epic games, what they mean is that Infinity blades make more dollar for each dollar invest in this game than other games.

On other notes, Infinity blades might be successful for Epic, but it didn't mean that it is a good game, there are many better games on PSP, gameboy advance, and even gameboy colour that is better than this game in my experience. 

not surprising...  that game surely didn't cost too much make. I tried it and then deleted it 30 mins later. Boring as hell, finicky controls and damn did it waste a lot of my 8GB iPhone's memory.It is quite worrying though how a mobile phone game is making more money for Epic than Gears of War or any of their other console titles. I really hope this isn't happening to many more publishers because they will end up just making mobile games from now on since they can make one cheap and makes millions! 

That's not really surprising to hear, mobile phone gaming revenue will eventually outgrow any other hardware (consoles, pc, handhelds) in the near future. 1. 90% of ppl will have a smart phone 2. Mobile gaming piracy is virtually non existant 3. Biggest games are usually under $15.

I just hope that all phones will have a Xperia Play style controls in the future, that would be dope.

Too bad it's one of the worst games i've ever played, which proves once again smartphone and tablet gaming isn't real gaming. SNORE.......

I think the most important thing to note here is that the author links a picture that is not even related to Infinity Blade. I don't know what game it is, but the "Infinity Blade has been a boon for Epic" picture is definitely not IB. Is it perhaps IB II? I don't know what game it is, with the isometric view and killing spiders.