30 million people play PUBG Mobile daily, and about 50 million play Game for Peace.PUBG Mobile was the highest grossing game in 2021, generating $2 billion in revenue.We have collected data and statistics on PUBG Mobile. That has been somewhat dampened by India’s recent ban of the title. In March 2020 when the world went into its first lockdown, PUBG Mobile made $270 million a month in revenue.Įpic Games spat with Apple and Google, which resulted in the removal of Fortnite from both app stores, has added more fuel to PUBG Mobile’s fire. PUBG Mobile was already starting to ascend in 2019, but with the coronavirus pandemic, the game has skyrocketed in both downloads and revenue. That has come back to bite the organisation however, as India recently banned PUBG Mobile in the country, due to its connections to Tencent Games. When it launched on iOS and Android in 2018, PUBG Mobile managed to surpass Fortnite in downloads, through its large userbase in China and India, but it still lagged behind Fortnite in revenue.ĭue to Tencent’s involvement in PUBG, as an investor in the developer Bluehole, it managed to pass China’s censors.
While PUBG garnered global popularity, it struggled to compete in the United States, as Epic Games’ Fortnite overshadowed it.
