如何才能知道哪些應用程式開發商是真正賺大錢的呢?除了透過應用程式商店排行榜臆測之外,應用程式分析商App Annie提供排行榜讓大家參考──2012年52家「全明星」開發商排行榜。
其實這是承襲去年的調查,App Annie去年列出了2011年全球iOS平台最賣座(營收高低)的50家開發商,事後還十分有創意地為此製作50張卡片;今年再度進行調查,並且加入Google Play應用程式商店的營收數據,列出真正猶如52張撲克牌的全明星收集卡(All-Star collection trading cards),執行長在4月1日就要走人EA,獲得黑桃A(第一名),越來越顯疲態的Zynga則是得到黑桃K(第二名),日本遊戲開發商GREE則是登上第三名寶座。榜上其它我們比較熟知的開發商,蘋果雖然是平台業者,但推出的多元應用程式也在此排行榜上獲得第五名;Rovio以憤怒鳥系列遊戲得到第十四名。
請參考完整榜單(名次/開發商/國家)
1:Electronic Arts/United States
#2:Zynga/United States
#3:GREE/Japan
#4:Gameloft/France
#5:Apple/United States
#6:Storm8/United States
#7:Supercell/Finland
#8:DeNA/Japan
#9:CAPCOM/Japan
#10:Playtika/Israel
#11:Kabam/United States
#12:Backflip Studios/United States
#13:GungHo Online/Japan
#14:Rovio/Finland
#15:Pocket Gems/United States
#16:Glu Games/United States
#17:NHN/South Korea
#18:Disney/United States
#19:SQUARE ENIX/Japan
#20:COLOPL/Japan
#21:Game Insight/Russia
#22:SEGA/Japan
#23:TinyCo/United States
#24:NaturalMotion/United Kingdom
#25:CyberAgent/Japan
#26:Mojang/Sweden
#27:KAMAGAMES/Russia
#28:Com2uS/South Korea
#29:GAMEVIL/South Korea
#30:Big Fish Games/United States
#31:Z2Live/United States
#32:Ateam/Japan
#33:TomTom/Netherlands
#34:comiXology/United States
#35:Namco/Japan
#36:Quickoffice/United States
#37:Badoo/United Kingdom
#38:Halfbrick Studios/Australia
#39:Chair Entertainment/United States
#40:Bash Gaming/United States
#41:Dragonplay/United States
#42:WhatsApp/United States
#43:KLab/Japan
#44:Pandora Media/United States
#45:DataViz/United States
#46:Rockstar Games/United States
#47:Activision/United States
#48:com.digitalcloud/China
#49:Ludia/Canada
#50:MLB.com/United States
#51:wooga/Germany
#52:Tap4Fun/China