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GDC 2024 | HTC VIVEPORT unveils new, industry-leading Developer Revenue Split

VIVEPORT has a new deal for developers. (Source: HTC)
VIVEPORT has a new deal for developers. (Source: HTC)
HTC touts VIVEPORT as the "best place" for developers to make and market their virtual/augmented reality (VR/AR) games or apps, not the least as their earnings from doing so are slated to increase "significantly" very shortly. The new revenue share percentage, freshly unveiled at 2024's Game Developers Conference (GDC), applies to new and existing games alike.
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HTC's VIVEPORT is already touted as the "leading gaming and app store" for extended reality (XR) content, which encompasses PC-linked VR (PC VR) titles compatible with headsets such as those of the Meta Quest line (via Quest Link) as well as those for the first-party VIVE XR Elite (via VIVE Streaming).

Accordingly, it stocks games ranging from the PC VR version of SUPERHOT to Fracked and The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners, available "unlimited" (albeit for a monthly fee) via the VIVEPORT Infinity subscription. Now, HTC also backs it to be as good a deal for those who make the games as well.

The OEM has confirmed that it has settled on a new 90/10% revenue split in favor of developers at GDC 2024. Then again, the new remuneration model is only valid for PC VR/VIVE XR Elite games and apps that are sold as one-time downloads in the store, and not those streamed via VIVEPORT Infinity.

The new deal takes effect on April 1, 2024 for new titles; however, it will also be retroactively applied to sales of older titles from March 1 onward.

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Deirdre O'Donnell, 2024-03-18 (Update: 2024-03-18)