Samsung offers 80/20 revenue share for games on the Galaxy Store

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 13, 2025
Updated June 18, 2025
4 min

Samsung Electronics announced that it will share 80% of revenues and keep 20% for itself for games on the Samsung Galaxy Store.

The big South Korean tech company made the announcement ahead of the Game Developers Conference next week. It’s big news, as both Google and Apple charge as much as 30% to developers who sell their goods on the big platforms’ app stores. It’s been the subject of litigation, as Epic Games has highlighted it as monopolistic behavior — and Epic only charges 12% to developers on the Epic Games Store.

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Dean Takahashi

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.