HTC’s Viveport rolls out a 90% revenue split in favor of developers

HTC announced today at the Game Developers Conference that it’s rolling out a new revenue split for the Viveport store. More specifically, Viveport offers a 90/10 revenue split, with developers keeping 90% of revenue for games and apps sold as a one-time purchase for PC VR or Vive XR Elite. The new split goes into effect for new games and apps on April 1, and it applies retroactively on March 1 for existing games and apps.

This revenue split is unusual for the games industry — other storefronts, such as Steam and the PlayStation Store, offer a 70/30 split. Even Epic Games, which has publicly criticized this split in the past, offers a slightly less attractive split than HTC at 88/12 in developers favor. HTC has previously increased the revenue to developers as high as 100%, albeit for a limited time in 2020.