What can it have to do with Avengers Endgame with Fortnite; The superhero movie may have grossed $ 2.8 billion in revenue, but Fortnite, a free game, grossed $ 1.8 billion.
Σin fact according to Superdata, the top 5 free games managed to pocket more than $ 1.5 billion each, in 2019.
The table above The report of Statista shows the other big names at the top: Dungeon Fighter Online, Honor of Kings (Arena of Valor), League of Legends and Candy Crush Saga. The other top 10 games include Pokemon Go, Crossfire, Fate / Grand Order, Game for Peace and Last Shelter: Survival. They all had more than $ 1,1 billion in revenue last year.
Compare now the free second-place game ($ 1,6 billion Dungeon Figher Online) to The Lion King's second-highest-grossing film of the year, which grossed less than $ XNUMX billion. It's obvious: The gaming industry is on top.
At the same time, and taking a look at the other platforms, we see some more interesting information. Free games had a total of 87.1 billion in revenue. Free mobile games alone grossed $ 64.4 billion and $ 1.5 million came from console free games.
If you do not know what the "freemium" model is, then we must tell you that we are talking about games that you can download at no charge. But to provide additional content, such as characters and new levels, then you have to pay. However, compared to 2018, the previous year saw a 6% increase in revenue from free games.
Of course, the comparison between movies and games is not fair, but we do not believe that Disney will soon release a movie for free and base its spending on merchandise sales.
In conclusion, it is worth mentioning that the publication of SuperData (named 2019 Year In Review: Digital Games and Interactive Media) says that in 2019, other games and interactive media such as Twitch and Mixer as well as virtual reality headsets secured $ 120.1 billion worldwide. Of course, there was a drop in the revenue of premium paid games, compared to 2018, but this is due to the much larger range of excellent AAA games we saw then.
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