A mobile game is jointly launched by the Palace Museum and NetEase on December 28, 2018 in Beijing. (Xinhua/Jin Liangkuai)
BEIJING, Feb. 2 (Xinhua) -- A total of 37 Chinese mobile games each raked in over 100 million U.S. dollars from overseas in 2020, a big increase from 25 ones in 2019, reported Shanghai Securities News Tuesday quoting Sensor Tower, a mobile app data analysis platform.
Data from the platform show that the top 30 Chinese mobile games by overseas revenue generated a total revenue of 9.24 billion U.S. dollars in App Store and Google Play in 2020, growing by 47 percent from the 6.3 billion U.S. dollars in 2019.
PUBG MOBILE, an online multiplayer battle royale game developed by Tencent Games, ranked first in the 2020 domestic mobile game overseas revenue list with 1.06 billion U.S. dollars.
Statistics show that since its launch in early 2018, the game has grossed 2.1 billion U.S. dollars in overseas markets and been downloaded more than 690 million times.
Other leading game makers such as Lilith Games, NetEase, FunPlus and miHo Yo have all seen their products included in the list.
The ever increasing revenue data has further tightened confidence of domestic game manufacturers to go global.
Taking Tencent as an example, the company's third-quarter report for 2020 show that its mobile game revenue in the quarter registered 39.173 billion yuan, up 61 percent year on year.
It's noteworthy that Tencent's popular mobile game King of Glory realized a daily active users exceeding 100 million throughout the year of 2020, becoming the first game product with such daily active users worldwide.
A securities firm has said in its research report that overseas business is expected to be an important growth point for domestic game companies in the future, and thus their potential revenue space may continue to improve.
(Edited by Gu Shanshan with Xinhua Silk Road, gushanshan.1987@163.com)
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