Games and Numbers (December 25, 2024 - January 7, 2025)
A bi-weekly report of milestones that PC/Console/Mobile games reached.
PC/Console Games
In December 2024, Stardew Valley sales surpassed 41 million copies. The developer announced this on the website. 26 million copies were sold on PC and Nintendo Switch accounted for another 7.9 million.
NieR: Automata has been sold over 9 million times. The game was released on February 23, 2017.
Sales of the Resident Evil 4 remake have reached 9 million copies. Only 3 games in the series’ history have sold more than 10 million copies - Resident Evil 7 Biohazard, Resident Evil 2: Remake, and Resident Evil: Village.
The indie horror game MiSide from a small Russian studio (2 people) became a December hit on Steam. According to VG Insights estimates, the game has already earned almost $15 million.
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Mobile Games
Scopely has earned over $10 billion in its history, as the company wrote in its blog. The company’s games have been downloaded more than 1 billion times, with users spending 15 billion hours playing them.
Pokemon TCG Pocket has earned more than $300 million, according to Sensor Tower. 41.5% of the money comes from Japan, 21.7% from the USA, and 7.3% from France.
ARK: Ultimate Mobile Edition launched on mobile devices on December 18, with over 1 million downloads in the first 24 hours after release. Currently, AppMagic shows almost 2 million installs and $500 thousand in revenue (after taxes and platform fees).
Transmedia
The box office for the Sonic movie trilogy has exceeded $1 billion. The third installment of the film has grossed more than $336.3 million since its release on December 20. The fourth part of the film is already in development.