Just as it looks like the Apex Legends bubble may have burst - at least, on Twitch - it seems the old dog of the battle royale genre is still fit and healthy. PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds made $920 million in revenue during 2018. That's up on 2017 - the year it blew up - by around $220 million. The news comes to us via industry analyst Daniel Ahmad on Twitter, who cites a report by Naver Sports (Naver is a South Korean online platform and search engine). $310 million of that revenue is profit, and $790 million of it comes from PC players. Astonishingly, mobile is a drop in the ocean at only $65 million - Ahmad explains that this is because Tencent has the licence to make and publish the mobile version, whereas Naver Sports is citing a report from PUBG Corp. Considering PUBG mobile has more downloads than Fortnite - across all its platforms - it's mind-boggling to think how much money the mobile version might have made Tencent.
Syndicated from here: PUBG made nearly a billion dollars last year (and that barely includes mobile)
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