Recently, sales data was revealed from Respawn Entertainment's newest game, titled Apex Legends Mobile. Where the great success earned revenues of up to USD 4.8 million.
This battle royale game, managed to top the standings as the most downloaded game category on iPhone in more than 60 countries, since launching on May 17, 2022. The United States (US) itself, became the country with the most installations, followed by India and Brazil.
Not only being the source of the most players, the US is also the highest supporter when it comes to player spending in the game. This is because they spent up to USD 2.1 million, as reported by us from Games Industry, Wednesday (2/6/2022).
Where it is 44% of the total revenue earned by Apex Legends Mobile, in the first week since its release. Then its existence was overshadowed by Japan in second place and Thailand in third.
This amount beats the revenue of the battle royale game from Tencent, namely PUBG Mobile, in the monetization determination week which was estimated at USD 600 thousand. It's just that Apex Legends Mobile's notch has not been able to compete with the popularity of Call of Duty: Mobile.
The figure even tripled, from game revenue made by Respawn Entertainment and Electronic Arts in the same week. It was calculated that the competitor collected up to USD 14.8 million .
Even though the battle royale genre is a revenue hitter in 2022, it hasn't been able to break down the most impressive streak in 2021. The data revealed, subgenres ranging from puzzle, casino and strategy are the leaders.
Respectively earned USD 5.1 billion, USD 4.8 billion and USD 4.3 billion.