PUBG Mobile exceeds $5 billion in sales and 1 billion downloads

Marketing company Sensor Tower announced that the total sales of PUBG Mobile, a popular battle royale game for smartphones, exceeded $5 billion, and at the same time, the official page of PUBG Mobile also announced a breakthrough of 1 billion downloads.

According to Sensor Tower, PUBG Mobile and Game for Peace, the Chinese version of this work, posted sales of $2.7 billion in 2020 alone, with total sales reaching $5.1 billion. In terms of sales in 2020, it is estimated to be 7.4 million dollars a day, exceeding that in the first quarter of 2021. Looking at the sales trend from the first quarter of 2020 to the first quarter of 2021, there was a temporary slump in the fourth quarter of 2020, but the trend was regained in the first quarter of 2021.

Like other games, it was the Corona 19 virus that brought the good news of PUBG mobile. As the COVID-19 outbreak caused a global pandemic, PUBG mobile sales increased significantly, and monthly sales exceeded $300 million in March 2020, when restrictions or bans on going out in many regions were first enforced.

By country, China is driving the strong PUBG mobile. Since China regulates brutal in-game expressions, PUBG mobile operator Tencent is providing an alternative game called Game Forpis, and this game is recording sales over PUBG Mobile. Game Popece is almost the same as PUBG Mobile, but it is set as a military training of the People’s Liberation Army Air Force.

According to Sensor Tower, the sales of Game Four Pieces are $2.8 billion, which is 55.4% of the total, and PUBG mobile sales are $2.3 billion. Outside of China, the United States ranked second with 12.7%, followed by Japan with 4.8%. On the other hand, PUBG Mobile said it recorded 1 billion downloads, and this figure is a calculation that earns 5 dollars per PUBG mobile download. Related information can be found here.