Nintendo’s Japanese colossus can open champagne. The company is doing great not only in the main console market. Nintendo’s fourth mobile game is the company’s second most successful smartphone release.
The three-dimensional role-playing game Dragalia Lost earned $23.5 million in the first 30 days on the market in the USA and Japan only on iOS. This is slightly more than Super Mario Run earned in the same period in the same countries, whose release was accompanied by much more attention from the press and players.
Comparison of Nintendo game revenue in the debut month
However, this is half as much as the main mobile locomotive of Nintendo, Fire Emblem Heroes, collected in the first 30 days.
The heir to the portable tactical game series generated $48.2 million in its debut month.
But there is a nuance. In terms of downloads in the first 30 days, Dragalia Lost also lagged significantly behind Fire Emblem Heroes. For this reason, her ARPU reached a staggering $25 in the first month in Japan. Fire Emblem had an ARPU of $5.8 for the same period in the same country. By the way, the ARPU in the USA at Dragalia Lost is also good. It reached the $8.5 mark.
It’s funny that in the first days after the release of Dragalia Lost, when the game had not yet had time to pick up the pace, there was information that the project might be the least profitable of the Nintendo line. Forecasts are not coming true yet.
Dragalia Lost
Recall that Dragalia Lost is a high—budget role-playing project for smartphones.
The core is built on action-packed battles. The player’s hero enters the arena, through which he moves freely, dodges enemies and aims on impact.
The game was released on September 27 in a limited number of territories (in addition to the USA and Japan, users from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and Puerto Rico can download it). It is unknown when its world release will take place.
Dragalia Lost is a joint development of Nintendo and Cygames studio, famous for the Rage of Bahamut mobile battler, which at the beginning of the tenth for a long time sat in the top of the highest—grossing US games on Android.
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