Metaplay did a survey on backend gaming technology.
Metaplay did a survey on backend gaming technology.
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Mobile game publishers spend $21M on backend tech | Metaplay

Metaplay said its survey of top-tier mobile game publishers revealed that they each spend more than $21 million to build and maintain internal backend technology.

Metaplay said the survey reveals true cost of tech needed to scale hit games, including the hidden impact on game programmers asked to work on backends. The survey shows there is a big human cost in the time of game programmers who are diverted to work on tech instead of gaming content.

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Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.