Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Tops Digital Best-Sellers List
According to statistics (of October, 2019) presented by SuperData, the latest installment of Call of Duty turned out to be the best-selling digital title among games released in 2019. Also, October was the best month in the history of Apex Legends.
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SuperData service has shared data on digital game sales in October this year. Only in last month, s of PCs, consoles and mobile devices spent a total of $8.84 billion on all kinds of digital products (most of this profit was earned from the in-game micropayment systems).
This result is 3% lower than in the previous year, mainly due to a decrease in the console segment. On the other hand, digital distribution on mobile devices has increased by 7%, which only indicates that this market is slowly becoming a leader in this field.
Among the PC titles there was a primary leader - League of Legends. However, the SuperData service did not provide accurate information in the case of this game. The 2019 Championship , which offered almost two months of collecting exchangeable tokens for valuable prizes, probably had a significant impact on the earnings.
mobile version of CoD generated $57 million of pure revenue.
FIFA Ultimate Team at the same period of time.
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