Analytics: The nine top mobile shooters earned $186 million in September, with PUBG Mobile leading the pack
The MobileGamer portal has examined the current state of the mobile shooter market. It referred to data from the AppMagic service and compiled a top-9 revenue ranking of games in this genre on the App Store and Google Play as of September.
PUBG Mobile
Important: The revenue for the games listed below includes IAP, after publishers have paid commissions to mobile stores and taxes.
1. PUBG Mobile — $95.37 million;
2. Call of Duty: Mobile (excluding the Chinese version) — $21.09 million;
3. Free Fire — $17.33 million;
4. CrossFire: Legends — $15.28 million;
5. Free Fire MAX — $14.35 million;
6. Knives Out — $8 million;
7. Arena Breakout — $5.36 million;
8. War Robots — $5.24 million;
9. Hunting Sniper — $3.94 million.
MobileGamer noted that almost all the games in the top list are published by Asian companies. The two exceptions are War Robots by MY.GAMES and Call of Duty: Mobile by Activision Blizzard. However, the development of the latter involved TiMi Studios, a subsidiary of the Chinese giant Tencent.
