PUBG Mobile won more than GTA V
PUBG Mobile has benefited greatly from being the first major PC-based battle royale to come to smartphones. Since its launch, App Store and Google Play users have downloaded PUBG Mobile 1.1 billion times and spent an average of $5.2 million per day, according to Sensor Tower. On the other hand, although PUBG Mobile has reached a saturation in the market and experienced a decrease in its growth rate, it continues to be among the most successful mobile games of all time. This is supported by more than $9 billion in income over his lifetime.
To put the success of PUBG Mobile, which is free-to-play (F2P), into perspective and to understand its magnitude, we need to compare it to another very popular game: GTA V. Since the launch of GTA V in 2013, the income of the entire GTA series has been provided by Take-Two Interactive. 7,68 billion dollars according to the figures.
In fact, there is another situation that we should highlight. PUBG Mobile data shared by Sensor Tower does not include such a large market as India and BattleGrounds Mobile India in this market. So the $9 billion earnings level may actually be much higher. Meanwhile, another popular mobile game, Genshin Impact, has earned a whopping $4.1 billion since its release in 2020, according to Sensor Tower.