Game news Genshin Impact, PUBG: these mobile games that generate billions of euros
The video game on mobile has now changed a lot and is getting closer and closer to that on home consoles: you only have to see the production of certain titles to notice it. Some titles enjoy an absolutely insane community and the latest figures for PUBG Mobile and Genshin Impact command respect.
PUBG, the eldest
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is a seminal battle royale that’s done wonderfully well on mobile. It was in March 2018 that the application was launched for the first time and yes, it is a great success : the time is now is assessment and this one is provided to us by SensorTower, thereafter relayed by GamesIndustry.biz.
PUBG Mobile has therefore reached an incredible nine billion dollars in spending by players, in just five years of activity. It’s simply gargantuan and yet, it’s not better than before: with 1.6 billion dollars generated between January and September 2022, the drop in income is 27% compared to the same period in 2021.
Whatever, other figures come to establish the popularity of the game. Imagine that PUBG Mobile now has 1.1 billion downloads via the App Store and Google Play. There, it causes, especially when we know that there are 7.8 billion humans on this planet. And yet, with 104.4 million installations between January and September 2022, the slope is downward with -27% downloads compared to the previous year.
Genshin Impact, the arrow
The success of Genshin Impact is all the more impressive as the title is cryingly beautiful for free to play, released a bit out of nowhere and not so long ago, on September 28, 2020. A little over two years after his arrival, the title of MiHoYo is also a huge hit.
Therefore, to say, total revenue just topped $4 billion since launch. 1.4 billion dollars were recorded between the first and third quarters of 2022 and 37.3 million downloads for this same period (-7% compared to 2021 nevertheless).‘ In total, there are 126.4 million installations on mobile.
True titans of video games, whatever one may say. These figures are there to remind us.
