Games & Numbers (August 24 - September 3; 2024)
A bi-weekly report of milestones that PC/Console/Mobile games reached.
PC/Console Games
Steam set a new record with 37.2 million concurrent users on the platform.
Crime Scene Cleaner sold over 200,000 copies in less than 2 weeks.
Valve’s Deadlock is gaining popularity. The game hit a new peak of 171,000 concurrent users. It’s still in closed beta. According to VG Insights, the game has over 1.5 million wishlists.
GameDiscoverCo estimates that Black Myth: Wukong has 3 million buyers on PS5, with 2 million in China.
Over 19 million people have played Control. This doesn’t reflect sales since the game has been available on subscription services.
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The mobile game CarX Street has launched on Steam. The game had 600,000 wishlists at release. Unlike the mobile version, the game is sold for $19.99 with no microtransactions. The mobile version has been downloaded over 50 million times.
Mobile Games
Sensor Tower reports that Coin Master has surpassed $6 billion in revenue. The game has an interesting history. It was nominally released in 2012 but didn’t receive any support until February 2016. By December 2018, the game was making $10 million a month. In August 2020, Coin Master had a total revenue of $1.37 billion. By August 2024, the developers managed to increase it more than fourfold.
Merge Mansion by Metacore has earned $500 million in 4 years of operation, with 55 million downloads during that time.
Sensor Tower reports that Zenless Zone Zero reached $100 million in revenue faster than any other game released in 2024. The main regions are China (39.7% of revenue), Japan (27.7%), the USA (10.1%), and South Korea (9.1%). The RPD in South Korea is $14, second only to Japan. Note that Sensor Tower does not account for PC and console sales, so the actual revenue of the game is even higher.
Goddess of Victory: Nikke launched a collaboration with Evangelion, resulting in the project’s revenue doubling on the day of the update's release. According to AppMagic, the peak gradually normalized afterward.
Other
More than 335,000 people from 120 countries attended Gamescom ’24 this year, which is 4.6% more than last year.