SuperData Arcade has shared its monthly report, stating that Overwatch has surpassed $1 billion revenue thanks to its in-game micro-transactions. As such, Blizzard’s MOBA shooter became the 64th game on either console, PC or mobile to generate over $1 billion from in-game content alone.
Overwatch is also Activision Blizzard’s sixth IP to hit this mark, after World of Warcraft, Call of Duty, Destiny, Candy Crush and Hearthstone.
June 2019 was also Rainbow Six‘s best month for Monthly Active Users and sixth-best month for in-game spending on the back of the Operation Phantom Sight update, despite the title being well into its fourth year. Total in-game revenue rose to $36.8 million across console and PC in June, an increase of 50% from May and 9% from June of last year.
According to SuperData’s report, publishers are also experimenting more with steep discounts.
“As the free-to-play business model continues to take mindshare in the industry, publishers seem more open to significantly lowering unit prices for catalogue AAA franchises in order to expand the player base. EA’s Sims 4 and Take-Two’s NBA2K19, two franchises that benefit immensely from add-on content purchases, both saw huge spikes in unit sales after prices were brought down below $5.”
Last but not least, here are the world’s most popular digital games across PC, console and mobile for June 2019.
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Thats how you kill creativity and good games, my god braindead people
Well what do you expect. Anyone that plays PVP all damn day long is quite brain dead. Spawn, shoot, get shot, rinse & repeat. I’d say that’s about right. Why are we surprised by these numbers. they gotta Git Gud somehow,
sad
Yup!
I can see the world ending in a few centuries…and understand who/what the root cause will be!
Well good job to those people, now in next 10 years we will have those sh#tty multiplayer copy paste games with thousands of microtransactions LOL
Well it’s been a decade already. Whats another decade?.. HAHA, we are so FUQ’d.
Excellent
Blizzard are nothing but rotten pile of trash… Just like Epic… and what about those braindead losers who give their money to these bastards… this is uuuuuuuuuuuunbeleivable… -__-‘
Humanity is such a failure.
Really isn’t all that impressive considering the game came out over 3 years ago.
Earning 333 million dollars per year, year after year for 3 years from the same game is not impressive? Boy, your parents sure put some unrealistic expectations for their children huh.
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GTA 5 is number 5 on that list, Overwatch isn’t even on the list despite being a newer game. I don’t know why you seem to think I have some personal stake in the success of a multi-billion dollar company.
I think he was just calling you dumb.
I find this rather depressing.
Extremely depressing!
This is why developer afraid to make single-player games. Only Sony, Nintendo and Bethesda still care about single-player games.
Where’s the get woke go broke guy that keeps creeping up? I want to hear his take on this.
He said disingenuously.
In other news, the human race continues to be the dumbest race on the planet.
And the only race on the planet.
LOL Overwatch fanboi here.
Yes, I’m proud Overwatch hater.