Gamers Spent $8.3 billion on Digital Games in September

September turned out to be hot. The players have shaken up their money by $8.3 billion. Most of the evergreen presidents went into the pockets of the developers of League of Legends, Destiny 2 and Fantasy Westward Journey.

Consoles

A year ago in the same month, noticeably less was spent on games – $ 7.2 billion. Analysts attribute the growth to a 25% increase in revenue from sales of console games.

First of all, we are talking about the crazy sales of Destiny 2. Bungie’s new game has sold a record digital edition for consoles. SuperData does not specify how exactly, but it is definitely more than 1 million copies (in the first weekend after the start of sales of the online game was 1.2 million).

Powerful support for the shooter on consoles in September was the almost one-time release of FIFA 18, NBA 2k18, as well as the appearance of Madden NFL 18 a little earlier.

PC

On PC, League of Legends still holds the lead in monthly sales, as well as a couple of Chinese MMOs sharing second and third place. But PLAYERUNKNOWN’s BATTLEGROUNDS is rapidly approaching them, which overtook World of Warcraft and Crossfire in September at the monthly box office.

The main surprise of the month is Divinity: Original Sin 2. The step–by-step isometric game managed to sell 660 thousand copies on PC in September. This placed the game on the 8th place in the top of the most profitable PC titles.

Against the background of this success, SuperData puts it on a par with other single hits of the year – Nier: Automata and Horizon Zero Dawn and concludes: single games can still earn well.

Mobile

Here SuperData dispenses with comments. The changes in the top were mostly of a rotational nature. Instead of Honor of Kings, Fantasy Westward Journey took the top place in sales among all mobile games.

The sales tops in one plate look like this:

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Source: SuperData