Games & Numbers (June 4 - June 17, 2025)
A bi-weekly report of milestones that PC/Console/Mobile games reached.
PC/Console Games
Global sales of Street Fighter 6 have reached 5 million copies.
Within 4 days of release, Elden Ring Nightreign sold over 3.5 million copies. This was officially announced by the developers.
Stellar Blade sales have surpassed 3 million copies. In the first 3 days of sales on PC, the game was purchased over a million times. Published by Sony, Stellar Blade became the company’s most successful single-player game on Steam by CCU, with over 192,000 people launching the game simultaneously.
The story-driven Under the Waves, published by Quantic Dream, has sold over a million copies. It took the game almost two years to reach this milestone.
9 Kings from Hooded Horse sold over 250,000 copies in its first week.
MindsEye – a game from a former GTA producer – approached release with 300,000 wishlists. The launch flopped, the game has 38% positive reviews, and the online player count dropped to 200.
Mobile Games
Sensor Tower shared that by mid-June, users had spent more than $650 million in Love and Deepspace. Only the App Store and Google Play are counted. In May 2025, China accounted for 48% of the project’s total revenue, with the US in second place at 19%.
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According to AppMagic, Wuthering Waves earned $317.3 million on mobile devices in its first year. The first $100 million was reached in less than two months.
AppMagic reports that daily revenue for mobile Zenless Zone Zero increased 31-fold on June 6, up to $5.95 million in Net Revenue, thanks to the anniversary celebration.
In the first 7 weeks after launch in China, Squad Busters earned $472,000 Gross Revenue in the Chinese App Store. Figures from AppMagic. In the first week, the game earned 64% of that – $303,000.
Magic Chess: Go Go from Moonton Games surpassed 30 million installs. By launch, the project had over 20 million pre-installs.
After Fortnite returned to the App Store, the game was downloaded 2.8 million times in 19 days.
Platforms
Nintendo Switch 2 sold 1.1 million systems in the US during its debut week. This figure does not include sales from the My Nintendo Store. This is a historic record; the previous one belonged to PlayStation 4.
Since its launch in August 2024, the Epic Games Store has been downloaded 40 million times. The company aimed to reach 100 million installs by the end of 2024.
Other
Summer Game Fest 2025 was viewed over 50 million times. The main show peaked at over 3 million concurrent viewers, up 89% from last year.