Genshin Impact estimated to have the highest first-year gaming revenue of all time (~$3 billion)

Genshin Impact estimated to be the highest first year gaming revenue of all time at 2.5 - 3.7 billion USD

One sad list… why make good games when you just can make glorified mobile game with loot boxes and cash in!

Out of the three console manufacturers only one is in that list. 😂

This is the future but with NFT's added on.

Is the Fortnite figure accurate? Because BattleRoyale was patched in later in Fortnite which was originally quite a different game.

A gatcha game that censors in the name of the CCP.

Gaming is turning into shit.

@pc_rocks: The BR mode was added a few months after release. So the BR revenue is included for Fortnite.

Not a single good game on the list other than RDR2.

@hardwenzen: If there is a good game on this list, it sure as shit ain’t RDR2.

Damn, does RDR2 have that popular of an online mode?

Thought real games had no chance against phone games in that department. Very surprising to see Animal Crossing there. And that high up too.

The power of the weebs.

Imagine for a second if this was an M rated game with a bunch of nudity in it. 100% of weebs would be all over it. Free idea for Genshin2. Thank me later, China.

I tried it, but definitely not for me.

Genshin Impact is without a doubt the most popular Chines game on the PC and hey, I'm happy it's doing well too. I really hope to see Genshin Impact get's an Anime adaption in the future cause it's Anime worthy:

To be fair, I am not a gacha fan myself, but the visuals are good and the game is well made. It is hard to believe this is mobile friendly and the amount of content early on is great IMO. I think the game is fine as it is free after all and the modeling and animation is top-notch even as a PC game. This is as close to getting BOTW MMO as we're ever gonna get lol.

This is the first I have ever heard of this game.

3 billion in its first year is absolutely insane though.

At first I was interested in the game due to them ripping off the Breath of the Wild look, but then I saw what the game actually was and then I was like... Fuk No!

Probably most of that is in China. I'm a reminded of how people acted like Wondering Earth making $700 million in China was reason to watch it (**shit movie BTW**). Anyhow, are we going to start celebrating games for their achievements in aggressive monetization? Man how times have changed.

What is even the gameplay loop in this game? All i see is them adding 4-13 years old children that don't wear appropriate clothing. And i've heard a streamer spent over 250k (and he is actually dumb enough to do it, so i believe it) on this shit game. Imagine spending 250.000.00 instead of 60.00. This is dumb as shit.

I honestly don't know why people keep bring this up? You either like it or not😑

@davillain said:

@hardwenzen said:

What is even the gameplay loop in this game? All i see is them adding 4-13 years old children that don't wear appropriate clothing.And i've heard a streamer spent over 250k (and he is actually dumb enough to do it, so i believe it) on this shit game. Imagine spending 250.000.00 instead of 60.00. This is dumb as shit.

I honestly don't know why people keep bring this up? You either like it or not😑

Who brings it up? I was curious about my original question, and i did hear a twitch streamer spending over 250k in one game.

I wish this would come out on the Xbox platform. I’m interested in checking it out.

Wow, Animal Crossing just straight beast mode.

Genshin Impact reaches $3 billion in player spending on iOS and Android

Gross revenue breakdown on mobile devices:

1. China - 30% (~$900 million)
2. Japan - 23% (~$700 million)
3. United States - 20% (~$600 million)
4. Other markets - 27% (~$800 million)

It's not at all comparable to Chinese movies like The Wandering Earth which only ever do well in China. Genshin Impact is the first genuine global smash hit video game to come out of China.

Its international success can partly be attributed to it appearing Japanese. It's a Zelda BOTW clone with a Japanese name, anime characters and gacha mechanics. It's a heavily Japanese-inspired game developed in China. Japanese games have a much wider global appeal than Chinese games, so Genshin was able to break that "Great Wall" by making itself appear Japanese rather than Chinese.

You should get your ass into Genshin. I see you getting heavily addicted, and that's very good tbh.

@hardwenzen: No thanks, its not made by Nintendo, so ill pass.

But it looks like a Nintendo made game. I think you can get over that, no? It gives you something to play until BOTW2.

image is spot on for meme comment.

@davillain said:

@hardwenzen said:

What is even the gameplay loop in this game? All i see is them adding 4-13 years old children that don't wear appropriate clothing.And i've heard a streamer spent over 250k (and he is actually dumb enough to do it, so i believe it) on this shit game. Imagine spending 250.000.00 instead of 60.00. This is dumb as shit.

I honestly don't know why people keep bring this up? You either like it or not😑

Those are some very impressive numbers.

Just what I was thinking as well. Fortnite started as quite the dud. And only got huge because of Battle Royale.

Edit: I see, BR came out way sooner than I recall.

The gameplay loop is mostly swapping between characters to apply elemental combos.