The game industry has been growing by leaps and bounds for the most part but a research firm claims that only 4 percent of games that make it to store shelves actually end up being profitable. This info from a Forbes.com article comes from the research firm Electronic Entertainment Design and Research.

Founded in 2006, the firm says it has worked with a number of major game publishers to determine if their upcoming games will become profitable. It uses a database of 6,000 games and a number of variables to figure out sales of a game, including genre, rating, projected release dates, the quality of a game's development team and more. According to EEDAR president Geoffrey Zatkin, "About 60 (percent) of a game's budget is spent reworking or redesigning a game. Armed with all this data, companies can make those tough calls early in the development process."