{"id":10353,"date":"2024-01-17T16:46:22","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T23:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=10353"},"modified":"2024-01-07T16:57:34","modified_gmt":"2024-01-07T23:57:34","slug":"unity-loses-almost-1-billion-per-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=10353","title":{"rendered":"Unity loses almost $1 billion per year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Unity game engine is a beast in the marketplace, holding the majority market share in the (number) of games made with the engine. But what if I told you that Unity was running an almost $1 billion per year deficit<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This seems like quite a shock for a big company that is clearly dominating the marketplace – but the reason is likely strategic. Unity has been on a tear acquiring lots of tool and support companies in the last few years to make Unity the engine that has everything you need – from rendering, to marketing, to authoring, to storefronts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, as the economic reigns tighten, this likely can’t continue. There was already a disastrous attempt to start charging fees for this once free engine, as well as announcing 3% layoffs<\/a> on some of it’s more speculative VFX division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.macrotrends.net\/stocks\/charts\/U\/unity-software\/net-income<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unity game engine is a beast in the marketplace, holding the majority market share in the (number) of games made with the engine. But what if I told you that Unity was running an almost $1 billion per year deficit? This seems like quite a shock for a big company that is clearly dominating the marketplace – but the reason is likely strategic. Unity has been on a tear acquiring lots of tool and support companies in the last few…<\/p>\n

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