Games & Numbers (October 30 - November 12; 2024)
A bi-weekly report of milestones that PC/Console/Mobile games reached.
PC/Console Games
Call of Duty series games have been purchased over 500 million times. Only Mario has more (879.4 million copies).
Hogwarts Legacy has been bought by more than 30 million players. It took less than two years to achieve this; Warner Bros. reported 22 million copies sold at the beginning of this year.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance has been bought more than 8 million times. The game was released in 2018. The sequel is set to release on February 11, 2025.
Over 19 million people have played Death Stranding. This doesn’t refer to sales, as the game was distributed for free through subscription services.
Despite mixed player reviews, Dragon Age: The Veilguard showed the best concurrent user count among all EA’s story-driven games - 89,400 people. Only multiplayer games like Apex Legends, Battlefield, EA Sports FC, and The Sims 4 (after transitioning to the F2P model) had higher numbers.
The Sims 4 has gained over 15 million new players in the last year.
Mod support in Baldur’s Gate III was warmly received by the audience. Mods have been downloaded more than 50 million times.
The open beta testing of Monster Hunter Wilds reached 463,000 concurrent users. It took place from November 1 to 4. The game will be released on February 28, 2025.
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Mobile Games
Call of Duty: Mobile has been downloaded over 1 billion times in 5 years.
On October 26, Honor of Kings repeated its own DAU record. Over 100 million people logged into the game. This was due to the project’s ninth anniversary.
Goddess of Victory: Nikke earned $890.6 million in Gross Revenue two years after release. 58.4% of all revenue was generated by Japanese users.
GDEV reported that the browser game Hero Wars: Dominion Era has earned more than $650 million since its release in October 2016. This figure includes revenue from mobile platforms. Apparently, this is the highest-earning browser game in the world.
Reverse: 1999 earned $98.7 million in Net Revenue in its first year after Western release, according to AppMagic. In reality, this figure is likely higher.
Pikmin Bloom earned $63.1 million in Net Revenue over three years of operation, according to AppMagic. $33.1 million (53% of total revenue) was earned in the last year. 68% of revenue comes from Japan.
Pokemon TCG Pocket, launched on October 30 this year, has already surpassed $50 million in Net Revenue, according to AppMagic. 43% of revenue comes from Japan, 27% from the USA. On November 9, the game’s daily revenue was $5.56 million. The game has been downloaded more than 17 million times. This is the second most successful mobile game launch in the franchise after Pokemon GO.
Royal Kingdom has earned more than $20.5 million during its soft launch since April 2023. 74% of this amount was paid by British users. The game will be released worldwide on November 21.
Since its release on October 17, the mobile Age of Empires has earned $13.89 million (as of November 11), reports Chinese publication GameLook. According to AppMagic, the game has more than 5 million installations worldwide.
Ludus: Merge Arena from Cypriot Top App Games has reached a monthly revenue of $2 million. Since its release in October 2023, the game has been downloaded more than 3 million times.
DAU in Roblox has exceeded 88.9 million people. The biggest growth is due to people over 13 years old.