Games & Numbers (November 27 - December 10; 2024)

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

PC/Console Games

• Users have donated over $750 million for the development of Star Citizen.

• Dave the Diver has been purchased more than 5 million times.

• Over 5 million people have played Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine II. Considering the game hasn't appeared in subscriptions, this number equals sales.

• Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake has sold over 2 million copies since its release on November 14. More than half of the sales were in Japan.

• Phasmophobia sold 1 million copies on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S|X a month after release. Total sales of the project have exceeded 22 million.

• Path of Exile 2 has been purchased more than 1 million times in Early Access.

• Crime Scene Cleaner sold 500,000 copies in less than four months. The first 200,000 copies were sold in less than two weeks.

• Drug Dealer Simulator 2 has been purchased more than 200,000 times. The game was released just over 5 months ago.

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• Dungeon Clawler was purchased 100,000 times in two weeks.

• Over 10 million people played Marvel Rivals in the first 3 days after release.

Mobile Games

• Dungeon & Fighter: Mobile earned over $1 billion in 6 months of operation in China on iOS.

• Monster Hunter Now's revenue exceeded $250 million according to AppMagic estimates.

• Pokemon TCG Pocket's revenue in the first month was $208 million according to AppMagic.

• Balatro's revenue on mobile devices reached $4.4 million in two months. The game is sold for $9.99 in the App Store and Google Play, and is also available on Apple Arcade.

• Infinity Nikki earned $4 million on mobile platforms alone in 4 days. 77% of the project's revenue came from China. The game was downloaded more than 10 million times across all platforms.

• Royal Kingdom earned $2.4 million in 14 days after release. During the soft launch, the project earned $21.2 million. All this is Net Revenue according to AppMagic.

• CrazyLabs games have been downloaded more than 7 billion times.

• Matchingham Games Group also reported download figures for the group. The company's games have been downloaded more than 750 million times.

• Block Blast's DAU reached 40 million users.

Hardware

• Global sales of PlayStation 2 have surpassed 160 million units. Sony announced this on its website dedicated to PlayStation's 30th anniversary.