Evening digest: Arena of Valor and DeNA, revenue from subscriptions
What we didn’t have time to write separately for November 7: Arena of Valor will publish DeNA in Japan, the quarterly revenue of game subscriptions is $273 million.
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Arena of Valor will publish DeNA in Japan
Tencent decided not to launch Arena of Valor (aka Honor of Kings) in Japan on its own. The Chinese giant has announced a partnership with a local mobile veteran — DeNA. The latter will publish a mob in the Land of the Rising Sun.
The move looks logical, given that Arena of Valor failed in the American market, where Tencent published it itself. The company does not want a repeat of the situation in the Japanese gaming market, whose turnover by the end of 2018 may amount to $ 19.2 billion.
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Quarterly revenue of gaming subscriptions — $273 million
The gaming subscription market is not yet significant when compared with the turnover of the entire industry. However, he now earns significant amounts. In the third quarter of this year, it generated $273 million.
Most of the revenue came from PlayStation Now. Sony’s subscription share in the segment is 52%. Another 33% is accounted for by various Electronic Arts offerings. Microsoft’s Game Pass acts as a catch-up.
Revenue of gaming subscriptions for Q3 2018Published publications
The following materials have also been published on our pages today:
- The Minister of Education of the Russian Federation wants to limit the time working with gadgets, and the ombudsman compares games with drugs
- Glu almost went to zero thanks to a game about home design and baseball simulators
- Riot Games sued for sexual discrimination
- Vacancies of the week (November 7)
- Video: Belka Games on how to grow income from the game
- Selling user data is a new way to monetize games
