Like every week, the major Japanese retailer Tsutaya published its chart to give you a glimpse on what games achieved the best sales in Japan last week. This time around the chart is interesting as it sees the release of two massively anticipated games: Super Smash Bros. for 3DS and Destiny.
Destiny has made over $160 million in MTX revenue, and these numbers only account the data from late 2017 to early 2019.
That's extremely low for microtransactions, especially for a game that's essentially designed around it
This was back when the game wasn't free to play.
The figures are from November 2017 to February 2019 (1 year and 4 months).
Based on that projection, the MTX revenue for Destiny 2 likely would have been closer to ~$240m for 2 years.
Not sure if premium expansions are included in that figure either although ... I'd hope that they are though and that most of the revenue was for actual content like Forsaken.
People spend way too much money on cosmetics.
Seasons($10 and just got bumped to $12) and dungeon keys($10 each, two a year) are through the eververse(micro transaction) store.
So for those two years, in order to play a season, you would pay through micro transactions.
Bungie Marathon will be worse since it's designed around it as well
It makes me sad to agree... but at the same time I am looking forward to giving it a go. Destiny 2 is so far in, I find it difficult to figure out what I am meant to do first.
Let's compare something similar. Apex Legends and its ridiculous $18/$40 skins make EA a billion each year.
For as much as ppl complain how much they hate microtransactions, they sure don’t act like it. No wonder they aren’t going anywhere.
By "people" you're referring to millions and millions of people. Obviously the ones complaining aren't necessarily the same as the ones spending all that money.
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SSB beat Destiny on PS4 and PS3 and every other game on every other system.
Japan has never been that big on FPS games (especially in the Western vein) so I am actually surprised Destiny did so well. Winning 2nd and 3rd place. SSB was always expected to be number one when it released in Japan no matter what the competition was except for maybe Monster Hunter which was the only game to have more preorders according to COMG rankings.
Also surprising is that Destiny on PS4 outsold the PS3 version as the preorder charts had predicted that the PS3 would win.
I'm glad to hear both games are doing well in Japan, but I'm really getting tired of all these console-war-inspired gloating articles...
Not surprised, Smash Bros is huge.
in japan
Just waiting for the NA launch already.