Another achievement has been submitted to the Chinese hit Genshin Impact. According to Sensor Tower analysts, the revenue of the mobile version of the game has already exceeded $ 4 billion.

PUBG Mobile‘s revenue has crossed another billion-dollar milestone, the VentureBeat portal reports with reference to Sensor Tower data. This is despite the fact that recently the game has started to earn less than before.

In the first three quarters of 2022, mobile RPGs earned a total of $15.6 billion, according to the analytical company Sensor Tower. More than any other mobile genre.

The most money-making game was Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, which earned $401 million since its release in April 2018.

The mobile gaming market is going through hard times. According to the analytical company Sensor Tower, its revenue for July-September 2022 fell by 12.7%.

Genshin Impact turned two years old on September 28. In honor of this, Sensor Tower analysts shared updated figures about the game.

It took the game a little more than a year to do this, according to Sensor Tower.

The figure was named by Sensor Tower analysts. They looked at the performance of the game from the release date (September 28, 2020) to August 2022.

Sensor Tower and Homa Games looked at how things are going with the so-called arcade idlers (arcade idle). This is a young subgenre of hyper-casual games in which low-poly little men collect resources.

Sensor Tower has published a detailed report on the situation with mobile games. We share facts from it.

Tencent alone earned over $2.7 billion, which is 10% of the total revenue of the largest publishers. Such figures were shared by Sensor Tower analysts.

Almost the entire amount went to the games. According to Sensor Tower calculations, they accounted for 94% of user spending in such applications for the first half of 2022.

According to Sensor Tower analysts, in January-June 2022, American gamers spent $11.4 billion in mobile games, which is 9.6% less than at the same time a year ago. As a result, the revenue of almost all genres decreased.

The mobile version of Diablo Immortal took eight weeks to overcome the milestone of $100 million in revenue. According to Sensor Tower analysts, among IP—based games, only Pokémon GO was able to earn such an amount faster at one time – it took her only two weeks.

The new record of the game was reported by Sensor Tower analysts, who took into account only the spending of Google Play and App Store users. According to their calculations, over half of the amount was brought by gamers from the USA — $595.5 million (59.4%). The second and third places went to residents of Germany (5.8%) and the UK (4.5%).

There has been a decline in mobile. User spending on mobile games fell by 6.6% year-on-year. If by the end of January-June last year they amounted to $44.1 billion, then for the same period this year they reached $41.2 billion.

TikTok‘s parent company receives a good income from mobile games, despite problems with the gaming business. Sensor Tower analysts estimated that for the period from June 21, 2021 to June 20, 2022, the total revenue of its titles exceeded $ 1 billion, and downloads — 139 million.

Last year, Netflix started adding mobile games to its platform. According to Sensor Tower analysts, at the moment their total downloads have exceeded 13 million.

Mobile games will soon cease to be a category that accounts for more than half of App Store users’ spending. According to Sensor Tower’s forecast, already in 2024, non—gaming applications will overtake games at the box office – by about $ 1 billion. And by 2026, the difference will be $21 billion.