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Incredible. Who could have anticipated this small game would make tens of millions of dollars (more than any single app in the iOS app store)?

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It was revealed [the week of March 9th] that Rovio's hit mobile title Angry Birds cost only $140k to create and has already generated an estimated $70 million.

http://www.industrygamers.com/news/angry-birds-one-of-the-mo...

I thought maybe Angry Birds was more; tough to say though.

I can guarantee you that there are apps who make far in excess of 10m in the app store.

Which apps have made that much in the app store?

Minecraft has made somewhere around 30 million U.S. dollars, with incredible growth (7 million U.S. dollars in the past month) and they'll probably sell millions more. And since they do their own distribution (Amazon Web Services, I believe), they don't give Apple 30%.

There are games that make more then a million dollars a day through the two major platforms. At this moment.

Minecraft is incredible but the mobile platform is actually giving the blockbuster console titles a run for their money (literally). Let that sink in. Console blockbusters have seen 300m+ opening weeks.

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