The “Zelda Clone” that conquered the world: the audience of Genshin Impact is growing by leaps and bounds

According to the first estimates, successfully launched on PS4, PC and mobile platforms September 28 shareware role-playing game Genshin Impact in the first week of availability could bring developers from a Chinese studio MiHoYo about $ 50 million

App Annie analytics platform claims mobile only (iOS and Android) Genshin Impact In just four days, downloaded over 17 million times in total. If we assume that this dynamics has been preserved, then we can already talk about overcoming the indicator of 20 million downloads. The numbers are impressive.

Recall that the production budget (development + marketing) of the role-playing game was $ 100 million.

“This is a huge achievement not only for the game developed in China, but for the new original IP as a whole,” said analyst Daniel Ahmad.

After the announcement Genshin Impact often compared to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, eventually calling her “Zelda’s clone”, but in reality they are completely different games. The similarities are primarily in the aesthetics and visual design of some elements.

The authors themselves confirm that they were inspired by the flagship Nintendo… An RPG version for Nintendo Switch is currently being prepared. Its release date has not yet been announced.

It was recently revealed that the developers were also inspired by NieR: Automata – they completely copied part of the animations into their game…

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