‘PUBG Mobile’ revenue surpasses ‘Fortnite’ for first time on iOS platform


  • TECH
  • Tuesday, 04 Dec 2018

LOS ANGELES: PUBG Mobile is still going strong. On the week of Nov 19, the smartphone iteration of the popular battle royale game saw a 166% jump in revenue, which allowed it to surpass Fortnite for the first time on iOS. 

According to Sensor Tower’s Store Intelligence data, estimated worldwide player spending across both the App Store and Google Play was up 2.7x last week in comparison to the past seven days. This represented a 166% boost from just US$4.5mil (RM18.59mil) to an estimated US$12mil (RM49.58mil) for the mobile version of the battle royale title. 

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