Limited Run Games
 |
|
| Division of Mighty Rabbit Studios | |
| Industry | Video game industry |
| Founded | 2015 |
| Founders |
|
| Headquarters | Raleigh, North Carolina, United States |
|
Key people
|
|
| Owner | Mighty Rabbit Studios |
|
Number of employees
|
2 (2016) 10 (2017) |
| Parent | Mighty Rabbit Studios |
| Website | limitedrungames |
Limited Run Games, LLC is an American video game video game distributor based in Raleigh, North Carolina and a division of Mighty Rabbit Studios. The company specializes in the release of digital games in physical media, with the games being sold on their website. The company, founded by Douglas Bogart and Josh Fairhurst, was based on the preservation of video games, as well as catering to players who prefer physical discs and cartridges opposed to game downloads. Limited Run Games releases games exclusively on their website, and deliberately creates small print runs. With this, the team maintains a pledge to refuse creating reprints of past titles, even if there is high demand. The company name itself is a reference to this business model, as their games are available in a firm, limited printing for a short time.
Being attached to Mighty Rabbit Studios, the company's first two releases were both in house productions, in order to test the market and see if there was demand for physical releases. However, the company did hint before release of their first game, Breach & Clear that their first official collaboration was in place (which would go on to be a printing of Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty!). Limited Run Games began expanding to projects with other developers following the success of these two in house test games.
In order to attract developers, Limited Run finances all costs of a game's print run, and handles all other necessary steps. In return, the developer is charged with the same fee asked by digital distributors. Additionally, titles are released exclusively through their website as mail order titles. Fairhurst says this is done in order to "minimize incurred costs and maximizes the end revenue for our developers."
Currently, Limited Run Games primarily releases games for the PlayStation family of systems. This is due to communication difficulties with Microsoft and Nintendo's minimum order quantities for games being "too high." However, according to an interview, Douglas Bogart expressed interest in publishing for the Nintendo Switch, saying "It’s looking very positive and we hope to have our first title out this summer [2017], fingers crossed!"
...
Wikipedia