Role-playing action Genshin Impact from chinese studio MiHoYo the last month managed to earn more than any other game. Such data research company SuperData presented in its report on the digital games market for October.
The so-called “clone The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild“managed to take second place among all mobile projects and ninth place on consoles. On PC, the game did not make it into the TOP-10, but its relative popularity on all available platforms allowed it to be higher than the leaders of the three categories presented in the rating: League of legends, NBA 2K21and Pokémon GO…
If we take the final indicators, then in October, players’ expenses in figures compared to last year’s indicators increased by 14% to the value $ 10.6 billion On an annualized basis, the costs of console gamers were 18% higher. And this despite the fact that in 2019 the data of the shooter Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, released at the end of August, was taken into account. This year, Activision’s annual franchise has returned to its November release window. Players spent 15% more on smartphones and 10% more on PCs.
New major releases include hacker action Watch Dogs: Legion, which in digital managed to disperse in circulation 1.9 million copies… Despite the fact that the Ubisoft game was on sale only for the last three days of October, it turned out to be many times more popular than the action movie released on November 15, 2016 Watch dogs 2 (431,000 digital copies)… The French publisher has probably managed to attract a chunk of the audience with a few free sequel giveaways earlier this year.
Electronic Arts managed to implement in October this year 1.5 million digital copies football simulator FIFA 21 (FIFA 20 could boast of circulation 1.2 million copies).
Sales Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time in digital format were 402,000 copies… The results of past releases featuring Crash are as follows:
- Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy – 520,000 copies in June 2017;
- Crash Team Racing Nitro Fueled – 552,000 copies in June 2019.
Sales revenue Star Wars: Squadrons became the lowest in comparison with their predecessors in the face Star Wars: Battlefront II and Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, which is mainly due to the lower release cost compared to previous franchise projects. However, the sales of a new game in the Star Wars universe with a circulation of 1.1 million copies found itself between the above titles. (Battlefront ii – 1 million; Fallen order – 2.8 million).
In the final part of its report, SuperData announced that from now on, the company will report on the success of subscription services: Xbox Game Pass, PlayStation Now and EA Play… Taken together, the aforementioned trinity increased revenue by 142% compared to October last year and increased its subscriber base by 113%. At the same time, according to the research firm, the main growth in both indicators was provided by the subscription service from Microsoft.
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