Apex Legends Mobile’s new season clearly didn’t help the game beat Genshin Impact’s record for revenue.
Domestic and foreign publications like to measure numbers. For example, Apex Legends Mobile made $12.4 million. Is that a lot or a little? Actually it is very little – even Diablo Immortal, which gamers and the media consider a failure of the year, brought the developers $24 million for two weeks. But if those numbers aren’t impressive either, let’s remember the first month after the launch of Genshin Impact – MiHoVerse got $245 million, and Pokemon GO brought in a whopping $283 million for Niantic.
But you can tell that the comparison is with games from different genres and even weight classes. Okay, then let’s compare revenue for the first week – Apex Legends Mobile earned $4.8 million, while Call of Duty Mobile earned $14.8 million for the week of release. But it’s not all bad – Apex Mobile earned more than PUBG: New State – the Krafton brainchild brought in only $2.6 million for the first week. I should note that data is not collected in China, and looking at the top regions by revenue, it’s mostly the US and Japan.