Evening Digest: Hearthstone and $660 Million, Black Ops 4 scandal, 3DS Sales
About the main thing for November 2: the mobile version of Hearthstone earned $660 million; Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 risks repeating the fate of Star Wars: Battlefront II; Nintendo sells one million 3DS in six months for the eighth year of the console’s existence.
Sales
The mobile version of Hearthstone earned $660 million
Since the release of Hearthstone on mobile devices in 2014, it has earned $660 million. This is without taking into account Chinese Android stores.
The main market for the game is the Celestial Empire. Here on one iOS game Blizzard generated $161 million.
Scandals
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 risks repeating the fate of Star Wars: Battlefront II
A scandal is breaking out on Reddit in connection with new microtransactions in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. The user of Refractions on Reddit noted that in order to get all the content, the player is invited to either spend 250 hours of play, or spend $ 200 and get everything at once.
In a post on Reddit, he criticized Activision and Treyarch’s approach. Now under his post there are already more than 2500 comments from other users who are also dissatisfied with the situation.
Consoles
Nintendo sells one million 3DS every six months in the eighth year of the console’s existence
Despite the success of the Switch, the Japanese colossus Nintendo is not going to stop producing and selling the portable 3DS. The company sees the latter today as a device that, given its low cost and high portability, can be an entry into the Nintendo ecosystem for a wide audience.
And, of course, apart from that, it still sells great. One million every six months. This is a very good figure for a console that has been on the market for eight years.
Published publications
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