PUBG Mobile loses to China s Honor of Kings in chart for top-grossing mobile games for March
PUBG Mobile loses to China s Honor of Kings in chart for top-grossing mobile games for March
Last month, PUBG Mobile was the highest grosser with total revenue of $250 million.
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PUBG Mobile slipped to the second spot in the revenue charts for March.
Both PUBG Mobile and Honor of Kings are owned by Tencent Games.
PUBG Mobile seems to be losing its shine. According to a new report, China’s blockbuster title Honor of Kings has emerged as the top-grossing mobile game worldwide for the month of March. But while PUBG Mobile has slipped one spot to end up being the second-highest grosser, the parent company Tencent Games saw no loss. That is because the owner of Honor of Kings is also Tencent Games. Honor of Kings raked in a revenue of $257.5 million, representing 63 per cent of total revenues from mobile games in March 2021.
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
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