Games & Numbers (July 11 - July 23)
A bi-weekly report of milestones that PC/Console/Mobile games reached.
PC/Console Games
Terraria is a super hit. The game has sold over 58.7 million copies in 13 years. Out of this, the last 23.7 million copies were sold from 2021 to the present.
More than 2.2 million people purchased early access to EA Sports College Football 25 for $100. Additionally, 600 thousand people played the game through the EA Play subscription. Analysts did not expect this result and have already doubled their sales forecasts for the project.
The summer sale on Steam helped Arma 3 increase its sales by 500 thousand copies. 100 thousand people bought the game on the first day of the discounts. The game is already more than 10 years old.
The First Descendant launched successfully with 10 million players in the first week. The peak concurrent users (CCU) on Steam reached 264 thousand.
Sales of Pacific Drive exceeded 600 thousand copies. The game was released in February this year on PlayStation 5 and PC.
The cooperative horror game Murky Divers sold 100 thousand copies in the first two weeks after its release in Early Access.
The crime scene cleaner simulator, Crime Scene Cleaner, has over 490 thousand wishlists. This great news was shared by the head of PlayWay, Krzysztof Kostowski.
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Mobile Games
Wuthering Waves’ revenue exceeded $100 million in its first two months. 23% of it came from Japan; 22% from China; 17% from South Korea; and a similar percentage from the USA.
Zenless Zone Zero earned more than $50 million in gross revenue in the 11 days after its release. The figures were shared by AppMagic. 47% of the revenue came from China; 27% from Japan. And yes, this is only about mobile devices - the game is also available on PC and PlayStation 5.
The second attempt at a global launch for Honor of Kings helped the game achieve more than 50 million installs outside of China in its first month. However, revenue figures are not as encouraging yet.
Mobile downloads of Loop Hero exceeded 1 million copies. The publisher called the percentage of purchases "significant," without specifying the exact number.