SuperData has released its worldwide digital video games stats for October 2017. According to the stats, the total revenue across console, mobile and PC in October was $8.5 billion, up from $7.4 billion in the same month last year. This growth is mainly due to a 28% jump in premium PC sales.
The overall PC sales were boosted by Destiny 2’s successful BattleNet launch, and the continued success of PLAYERUNKNOWN’S Battlegrounds. As SuperData pointed out, PLAYERUNKNOWN’s Battlegrounds had its best month, selling another 5 million units.
Furthermore, SuperData’s stats prove that single-player games still have legs. In October, South Park: The Fractured but Whole, Middle Earth: Shadow of War, and Assassin’s Creed: Origins generated over $160M through digital full game sales. Obviously these games won’t be able to compete with online games, however it’s obvious that single-player games still generate a lot of money.
SuperData also revealed that Epic’s Fortnite: Battle Royale’s MAU has grown larger than PUBG’s in October across PC and console. However, PLAYERUNKNOWN’S Battlegrounds still generates a higher revenue. After all, PUBG comes with a $30 price point, whereas Fortnite is a F2P game. SuperData believes that Fortnite may get close to PUBG in the long run. After all, Epic’s game has already introduced cosmetic microtransactions through an in-game cash shop in October. On the other hand, PUBG will hit consoles in 2018 and will fully release this month, something that will obviously boost its sales.
Overall, it will be interesting to see what will happen in December. SuperData also expects Fortnite to leverage their cash shop and introduce Christmas-themed cosmetics.
Last but not least, SuperData revealed October’s top 10 selling games by platform, and you can find them below!
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“Single-player games don’t sell.” *Adds a single-player campaign to Battlefront 2017.* Yeah….. EA at their finest, as usual.
Oh, by the way, as it turns out, EA was planning to add cosmetic microtransactions to Battlefront 2017 later down the line, so “Pink Vader” was a blatant lie.
Am I the only one who thinks we’d all be better off if Disney just bought out EA completely? They’d gain a worldwide distribution method for some of the most valuable IPs in the world and we’d be finally rid of this toxic megac*nt forever. Basically a giant win-win for everyone.
We would be better off and Disney could easily afford it from cash on hand but I doubt Disney wants the exposure that producing a lot of violent video games would bring on them. From time to time activists and politicians still try to pin violence in video games on encouraging real-world violence in kids and teens and Disney makes a fortune from their family oriented parks and media.
True, but at the same time, it’s not as if EA actually has that many non-EA Sports titles left to its name these days.
I mean, yeah, they’ve recently added Titanfall and they also have Battlefield, the latter of which is a high-profile title, but other than BioWare only has the upcoming Dragon Age 4 and Anthem to its name, but between Andromeda and Inquisition, I have no faith in DA4, so that just leaves us with the question of how badly EA is going to screw us over with Anthem microtransactions.
Need For Speed is all but dead, and everything else they have currently announced is seemingly non-violent indie titles, so I suppose it really just comes down to figuring out what to do with Respawn, BioWare and DICE.
OF COURSE THEY DON’T AS YOU CAN SEE ON THE PC AND MOBLIE
Disney buys EA… then closes it… it would be the world’s most expensive irony.
lol ALL I SEE IS FREE TO PLAY BULLSH~T ON THE PC DAMN!!! SAD!!!
Do you have an argument as to why it shouldn’t be other than your own opinion? If so can’t wait to hear it. lol
Block the troll, my man. It’s easy to do.
I know but the amount of retardation is just too funny with this guy.
I hear ya. He entertains himself more than he does me, though, so I had to block. lol
DUDE NOT EVERYONE IS A PU##Y LIKE YOU
WHAT’S YOUR ARGUMENT TELL ME I WILL TELL YOU WHY IT’S WRONG
It’s like talking to a child, pretty sure my 11 year old daughter can come up with something better, so you must be, 8? Also she knows what caps lock is, clearly you don’t, your dad left it on.
Single player games sell well on PC, it’s just that F2P is doing better in revenue.Besides, AAA is nothing to cheer about now anyway, in fact it’s somewhat worse than F2P, atleast F2P you don’t have to pay out $60 for the starter price. I mean why do you think AAA industry is using F2P like transations, because it earns them more money, PC it ahead of the curve.
Nevermind that a lot of the games grossing on consoles on that list are multiplayer oriented
PC IS THEY REASON THE SINGLE PLAYER IS DYING
Go play Uncharted bore and Horizon Zero Yawn then.
Yeah I know what you mean but ultimately it seems it’s going where the tread is and it seems F2P games are the biggest money makers on PC. We’re not responable for greedy companies, we just buy what we like playing, plus also F2P and multiplayer has been a thing on PC way before console, that’s why I said PC is ahead of the curve. Online MMO’s, F2P has been a big thing with PC players for a long time now. Note that console is even treading in that direction and digital sales when people claimed it wasn’t.
it’s great that we have plently of indie single player games and they’re selling well on PC, contridictory to what the AAA industry say to the point it’s dead and don’t make money, probably because they spend too much and market the hell out of them. Consoles are stuck on AAA and will be for a while, it’s what sells the console.
YES BUT ACCORDING TO THE VISITOR OF THIS IT IS COMPLETELY FALSE IT IS SAD TO SEE SINGLE PLAYER DIE ONLY BETHESDA AND FEW ARE PROVIDING WITH SINGLEPLAYER ONLY AAA
Plently of single player games on PC indie and they can sell a million copies, F*Ck AAA rubbish and what they say.
I am not sure how many copies it sold but Fallout 4 always has 20k to 30k players on Steam, beating out some multiplayer games like Borderlands 2.
“Fallout 4 Has Sold More Than 3 Million Copies On Steam” Feb 2016.
The problem is that the big publishers aren’t happy with anything less than 5 million sales. They also don’t want to make games that people play for less than a year. It’s all about long-term, persistent revenue these days and multiplayer games monetize much better in that regard. Bethesda is really the only AAA publisher still making traditional, non-open-world SP games and the sales of said games haven’t exactly been great.
When I think of a SP game, I think of one that’s literally a single player game, not a multiplayer game with Sp tacked to the side of it.
KEEP THINKING THAT IS NOT HOW BUSINESS WORKS lol COMPANY HAVE TO PAY EMPLOYEES AND STILL GENERATE PROFIT FOR THE FUTURE INVESTMENT WHY WOULD A INVESTOR INVEST IF HE MAKES NO MONEY LOL
None of what you said in caps lock made any sense as to what I was saying…
Block the troll, my man.
I’d rather the mods do their job.
They’ve known this user for a while now, and how the user offers nothing towards this site, but to troll others.
There is freedom of speech, and then there is being a gnat.
I cherish the guy’s ability to be a troll but have no need to read his inane comments so I just blocked him. Now he gets to screech in the dark and I don’t have to hear him.
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John may be just giving us what the majority asked for. The majority voted for this in the editorial:
“Unrestrained Policy: Our readers can comment about anything they want. They can leave political or racist comments, and they can insult other members (who can defend themselves via the Comment section. Moderators are not required to protect them and they can leave all users to fight each other).”
I knew that too much leniency can turn the comment section into chaos because I’ve witnessed it and voted and posted accordingly but people cried out “NO CENSORSHIP” and here we are.
Well, seems like there is a loophole, because there isn’t anything said about attacking the mods or the site itself, which I know the mods and owners of the site wouldn’t like to see, so I know they have a set threshold somewhere along those lines.
There will be a form of censorship somewhere down the line. Something they dislike seeing will be taken down.
If I remember correctly, everyone voted for freedom of speech on this site’s new policy. So basically everyone voted to protect trolls. Sure you can block, but anyone new visiting might be put off by the cancer.
WHAT TROLL YOU WEAK PU##Y LOL IT’S CONSTRUCTIVE ARGUMENT GTFO
LOL DUDE MULTIPLAYER IS WHERE THE MONEY IS DOES THAT MAKES SENSE NOW LOL THIS WHY THEY STICK SINGLE PLAYER WITH IT
YOU DON’T HAVE FRIENDS YOU MAYBE YOU DON’T LIKE TO BUY OR THEY DON’T LIKE TO BUY GAMES
I would not count Destiny as singleplayer (in the sense of having all of it be soloable), but singleplayer games are still made. If there was no demand, they would not be made.
single-player ? You mean . Hey this is the big bad badguy . Now pissoff and do some random shooting on open areas ?
Sort of the same, I like to solo in multiplayer, lone wolf like, haha
Not sure why those two things are placed in the same article. Destiny 2 is not a single player game. And obviously single player is still prevailing. All that Desinty 2 selling well on PC shows is that there are too many casuals on PC.