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Top 5 highest-earning mobile games: Honor of Kings, Genshin Impact, PUBG Mobile

Top 5 highest-earning mobile games: Honor of Kings, Genshin Impact, PUBG Mobile

Top 5 highest-earning mobile games: Honor of Kings, Genshin Impact, PUBG Mobile|sensortower.com

The 2020 pandemic has majorly affected the world with the largest economic shock. All industries were directly or indirectly affected by the impact of COVID-19. And the gaming industry is not an exception. However, with the growth of top-notch smartphone hardware and other technical enhancements, there is still decent growth in the mobile gaming industry. The last month’s revenue statements generated by Sensor Tower’s Store Intelligence platform prove that the big players in mobile gaming are taking advantage of the opportunity by acquiring a major chunk of the mobile gaming audience.

Here are the top-grossing mobile games between 28 Sep – 28 Nov 2020, with a analysis of the reasons behind their win.

1 Honor of Kings:

Top 5 highest-earning mobile games: Honor of Kings, Genshin Impact, PUBG Mobile|www.tap.io
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Studios’s multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA), Honor of Kings generated $467M ($6M+ per day) i.e. the highest revenue between 28 Sep – 28 Nov 2020.

Chinese publisher Tencent Games published Honor of Kings.

The popular lucrative game was released on 26 November 2015 and in October 2017 (Internationally as Arena of Valor) the publishers entered the international market. And within a brief span, this multiplayer has developed a lot. In celebration of their 5th anniversary, Tencent announced that the game has gained 100 million users worldwide.

In Honor of Kings, your task is to kill opponents and non-player characters to gain power, gold, and experience.

2 Genshin Impact

Top 5 highest-earning mobile games: Honor of Kings, Genshin Impact, PUBG Mobile|genshin.mihoyo.com
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Genshin Impact ranked in Sensor Tower’s ranking with a revenue of $393M. The game was released on 28 September 2020 and within a short period; the game has massively ruled the industry.

It’s an action role playing genre game published by Chinese video game developer miHoYo.

Genshin Impact is an open-world ARPG and free to play. But it nowhere looks like a free to play, instead, it’s a well-designed game and is more rewarding than typical full-priced games.

Genshin Impact’s perfect combination of treasure, puzzle, and challenge!

3 PUBG Mobile

Top 5 highest-earning mobile games: Honor of Kings, Genshin Impact, PUBG Mobile|genshin.mihoyo.com
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It’s another big news that irrespective of being banned from its major revenue country India, PUBG Mobile has grabbed the third position in the highest-earning mobile games. Last month PUBG Corporation’s PUBG generated revenue of $384 M.

The multiplayer battle royal surpassed ($238M) and Coin Master ($229M) with over 100 Million dollars.

After the relaunch of PUBG Mobile, we can aspect an increase in the revenues. By the way according to The Times Of India, PUBG generates only 1.5% revenue from India.

4 Pokemon Go

Top 5 highest-earning mobile games: Honor of Kings, Genshin Impact, PUBG Mobile|pokemongolive.com
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Pokemon Go is a fun game with a very different concept of exploration. This augmented reality game attracted a lot of players to perform the unique task of capturing Pokemon’s.

No shoot or loot, just move around your locality to discover Pokemon.

Niantic and The Pokémon Company released this game in 2016, and the unusual concept is performing well and attracting new users daily.

The game holds 4th position in the Sensor Tower’s list with a revenue of $238M. With the majority of United states users, the game is still a sensation in 2020.

5 Coin Master

Top 5 highest-earning mobile games: Honor of Kings, Genshin Impact, PUBG Mobile|moonactive.zendesk.com
Source: moonactive.zendesk.com

With maximum market capture in the US and Germany, Coin Master is progressively increasing its user base. The Casual Genre game has over 100M+ downloads on the Playstore with a 4.3 rating.

The game is holding the fifth position with a revenue of $229M. As the name suggests, your task is to become a COIN MASTER with the maximum loot and strongest village.

Coin Master is a collection of raids, attacks, spins, and fun!

Here is the complete list of the top 5 highest earning mobile games with their revenue (between 28th September 2020 and 28th November 2020).

#1 Honor of Kings – $467M

#2 Genshin Impact – $393M

#3 PUBG Mobile – $384M

#4 Pokemon Go – $238M

#5 Coin Master – $229M

Note: This article is based on the statistics by Sensor Tower.
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