Tencent s Honor of Kings, PUBG Mobile top-grossing mobile games in January
The game revenue estimates were released by Sensor Tower s Store Intelligence platform
BusinessToday.In | February 19, 2021 | Updated 15:30 IST
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Honor of Kings became the top-grossing mobile game worldwide for January 2021 with $267.3 million in player spending. The Tencent game generated approximately 97% revenue from China and 1% from Thailand.
Honor of Kings registered a growth of 22% compared to January 2020. The second-highest grosser PUBG Mobile, also from the Tencent family, earned more than $259 million in gross revenue. Approximately 60 percent of PUBG Mobile s revenue was from China and its localised version of the title, Game For Peace, followed by 9.8 percent from the United States