Chinese tech large Tencent stated on Thursday its cellphone motion sport PUBG Mobile has surpassed 1 billion collected downloads outdoors China, making it probably the most profitable video games worldwide.
PUBG Mobile, the cell model of Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds, during which a gaggle of gamers combat each other till solely a single combatant is left alive, has been massively standard because the so-called battle royale type sport was launched three years in the past.
The newest obtain figures would put it behind solely Kiloo Games’ Subway Surfers and King Digital Entertainment’s Candy Crush Saga, each informal titles which can be comparatively simple to play and attraction to a broad viewers, in response to information analytics agency Sensor Tower.
“PUBG Mobile achieving 1 billion downloads shows that core games, in this case a AAA Battle Royale title based on the PC IP of the same name, can achieve the same scale in the mobile space,” stated Daniel Ahmad, an analyst with Niko Partners. Tencent, the world’s largest video video games firm by income, has one other battle royale title in China referred to as Peacekeeper Elite. The announcement got here as Tencent reported its on-line video games income rose 29 p.c within the fourth quarter, pushed by a surge in paying customers for video video games in China and worldwide markets.
Its two hit video games, Honor of Kings and PUBG Mobile, continued to prime the rankings in China and internationally, respectively, in the identical quarter, it stated.
Tencent has stated it goals to derive half its video games income from abroad.
Both its LightSpeed and Quantum Studios and Timi Studios have opened outlets in Los Angeles, with the purpose of “creating content with original intellectual property that has global appeal.”
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