Tencent's Honor of Kings, PUBG Mobile top-grossing mobile games in January
The game revenue estimates were released by Sensor Tower's Store Intelligence platform
BusinessToday.In | February 19, 2021 | Updated 15:30 IST
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Honor of Kings became the top-grossing mobile game worldwide for January 2021 with $267.3 million in player spending. The Tencent game generated approximately 97% revenue from China and 1% from Thailand.
Honor of Kings registered a growth of 22% compared to January 2020. The second-highest grosser PUBG Mobile, also from the Tencent family, earned more than $259 million in gross revenue. Approximately 60 percent of PUBG Mobile's revenue was from China and its localised version of the title, Game For Peace, followed by 9.8 percent from the United States