Games & Numbers (July 24 - August 6)

A bi-weekly report of milestones that PC/Console/Mobile games reached.

PC/Console Games

• The cumulative sales of Pokemon Scarlet and Violet have reached 25 million copies. The game was released in November 2022 and has become the third game in the Pokemon series to achieve this milestone.

• EA has released a new hit - EA Sports College Football 25. Over 5 million people bought the game at launch, with another 500,000 joining through the EA Play Trial. Of these 5 million, 2 million purchased the $100 version to get early access to the project.

• Sales of Armored Core VI have reached 3 million copies. The game achieved this mark in less than a year.

• Manor Lords earned $60 million in 3 months of early access. The publisher is very pleased with the result.

• The Fallout series has influenced how much time users spend playing the series' games. The number of hours in Game Pass for the Fallout line increased 5 times in the second quarter of 2024 compared to the first, according to Satya Nadella.

• More than 500,000 people have played Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn by Kepler Studio.

• The free Silent Hill: The Short Message has been downloaded over 3 million times.

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Mobile Games

• Revenue from MONOPOLY GO! has surpassed the $3 billion mark, as reported by Hasbro in its report. The game achieved this in 473 days, faster than any other in the history of the mobile market.

• Games in the Talking Tom series have been downloaded over 23 billion times. The projects’ MAU is at 470 million. The company has more than 20 projects in its portfolio, with 70% of the audience accounted for by the Tamagotchi-like games - My Talking Tom and My Talking Angela.

• Hero Wars: Alliance has earned more than $1.5 billion since its launch in 2017. During this time, the game has been downloaded over 150 million times. In the fall of 2023, GDEV reported revenue of $1.2 billion.

• According to Sensor Tower, Whiteout Survival has reached $1 billion in revenue. Among games released in 2023, it trails only MONOPOLY GO! and Honkai: Star Rail in revenue growth. 35% of the revenue comes from the US, followed by South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan. Interestingly, Saudi Arabia is second in downloads.

• GachaRevenue reports that Zenless Zone Zero earned $99.8 million on mobile devices in its first month. The portal relied on Sensor Tower data and calculated revenue from Chinese Android stores by multiplying the Chinese iOS revenue by 1.75. The methodology is understandable, but I cannot vouch for its accuracy.

• Sensor Tower reports that Solo Leveling: Arise earned over $100 million in the three months after its release. South Korea accounts for 33% of the revenue, while the US accounts for 19%.

• Game of Thrones: Legends by Zynga earned its first million dollars in revenue. The game took 11 days to achieve this, and its current daily revenue is $100,000. The data is based on AppMagic figures.

• The daily audience of ROBLOX reached 79.5 million people in the second quarter of 2024, a 21% increase from the previous year.

• Blood Strike by NetEase has received over 50 million installations in less than a year. The game was released in soft launch on October 28, 2023.

• Seekers Notes by MYTONA has been downloaded 43 million times in its 9 years of operation. AppMagic notes that in the second quarter of 2024, the game earned $8.7 million in IAP (figure after store fees and taxes).