Despite being on a decline, PUBG still brought in over $1 billion
According to SuperData’s end-of-year report, PUBG earned over $1 billion in digital revenue worldwide, putting it ahead of juggernauts such as FIFA 18, GTA 5, and even Red Dead Redemption 2.
This figure covers the PC, PS4, and Xbox One versions, not PUBG Mobile. This is particularly surprising, because the game’s concurrent player numbers on PC have been declining since February.
PUBG spent almost the entire year bleeding thousands of players, and has only recently started recovering. In fact, according to the report, PUBG’s earnings jumped by 19% in 2018 compared to 2017.
There were a few other success stories in the premium segment in 2018. Red Dead Redemption 2, despite only placing at number five ($516M), broke records for highest digital revenue in a single quarter. Rockstar’s latest released very late in the year, of course, and its online component, Red Dead Online, even later.
Considering how well GTA Online, and GTA 5 continue to do years from release, the order of the list may look different by the end of this year.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 earned $612 million, landing it a spot at number four. SuperData’s report says player numbers at launch were similar to Call of Duty: WW2’s, but only on consoles. On PC, they more than doubled to 1.4 million compared to 594,000.
The biggest winner in the premium segment, however, has to be Monster Hunter World. Though it’s only managed the number eight spot ($467M), it’s not an annualised franchise, or a recurring live-service game. Red Dead Redemption 2 shares these same properties, of course, but it’s ultimately a Rockstar game, which almost always break records.
That said, seeing Monster Hunter World make it this big in the West after spending years as a niche, only-relevant-in-Japan series, is nothing short of staggering.
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Source: https://www.vg247.com/2019/01/17/pubg-tops-digital-revenue-paid-titles-in-2018/
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JasonPosted:
Hitting a decline is normal for video games. Games eventually will all get old. I'm not surprised they hit 1 billion, because they were booming for a while.
40Posted:
That's crazy they made a billion dollars on a digital copy. They probably saved a bunch compared to producing discs
MazePosted:
Numbers were declining because of numerous AAA games getting released the last months of 2018. $1 billion proves that the "decline" isn't very true
XboxPosted:
They still making insane money so guess it's not going that bad, yea it could be better but it could also be a lot worse.
ReckzXPPPosted:
Pubg fell hard but these past few months the player count jump back up. I guess bc it's free with game pass on Xbox one and it released on PlayStation
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