Sony's Fate/Grand Order Hits $3 Billion in Global Player Spending

To put Fate/Grand Order’s success into perspective, that figure is the equivalent of a PlayStation 4 title selling 50 million copies at $60. It’s also five times what the most successful PS4 game to date, Horizon: Zero Dawn, would have grossed on its 10 million copies at full retail price.

All this accomplished by a free to play anime game.

[AspiringProGenji]

GG whales 🐋 🐳

[TheColbertinator]

Hahaha neat emojis there

[Kribwalker]

Dem games as a service dollars raking it in big. No wonder everyone seems to be moving that way

[AspiringProGenji]

this is a mobile game

Nice try MS investor

[oasdada]

This is a free game

[bluefox755]

I'm confused, you seem to understand why it's bad, yet always defend it? Is the image of MS really that important in your eyes?

[The Wood]

Lol. . .smh Krib, .

[WelkinCole]

They look like Dockers icons to me lol

[Kribwalker]

“this is a mobile game”

it’s a free mobile game, that has raked in as much money as HZD would have if it sold 50 million copies. You can’t tell me sonys not looking at that.

It shows, SP games don’t have as big of an impact, as this FTP GAAS online MMO game has made more than any SP game sony has released for the PS4.......chew on that

[remixx116]

Maybe you should chew on the fact that you don't seem to actually care about gaming and feel some odd ass form of satisfaction from predatory consumer practices. All if this to defend MS current direction.

You're like a super shill

[The Wood]

Bro. . .you're starting to sound like Phil. . .'impact' ms and Sony aren't equal. No matter how hard you try to 'me too' Sony into your gaas party it won't work. You're injecting a false equivalent like Sony can't dabble in other areas and simultaneously focus more on the games that have helped them destroy Microsoft this gen. Sony has the best balance. .Microsoft have failed this gen on many levels that count. These two players are only equal or on the same path in your mind. Taking one game and using it as the barometer for 'where we should go' is a quick way to shoot yourself in the foot. . Just ask MS lol

[King_Noctis]

You are right. This is game as a service, or GaAS, but just in mobile form.

[Legatus]

"feel some odd ass form of satisfaction from predatory consumer practices. All if this to defend MS current direction."

I couldn't say it better myself. You know how much of a die hard fanboy you are when you are happy to pay full price for a bad, unfinished game that you will need to pay at least 3x the normal price to get full experience just because your favourite company is doing it. Phil should really consider to hire him, he would be a perfect company soldier.

[Nyxus]

Because Phil is always right, also when he said Crackdown 3 was 'coming along nicely'.

[CoinOrc]

Chew on the fact that MS can’t consistently make decent games, service games or otherwise. Crackdown 3, sea of thieves, state of decay, quantum break, etc. all suck.

[chris235]

these figures are depicting all that‘s wrong withe the industry today.

[SuperSonic91]

US$3 Billion?
Took Nintendo 2 years 2016 to 2018 to make that money

[King_Noctis]

As always, where is your source?

[bluefox755]

Even though one is kinda seeping into the other, I think it's important that we don't conflate phone gaming with console/PC gaming. There is some overlap, but they are massively different demographics.

[tontontam0]

Sadly, the investors are probably thinking why the hell are developers wasting their time making aaa games.

[solideagle]

kudos to Sony but thats sad that a game needed to sell 50 million copies to earn same amount of money....wow Mobile is huge no matter from which angle we look at :)

[SuperSonic91]

@solid
Like Guerilla Games said, for them to break even to sell twice their budget is already good.

USD$3 billion for a single game to make is too lofty a goal that no developer ever sanely hopes to make. Fate/Grand Order sales is considered a one in a million lucky phenomenon.

[Lennoxb63]

Its still way more common to reach goals like these with MP games than SP. Sure you got your huge SP franchises that do as well but that only happens about 3 or 4 times a gen. MP games don't even have to be established franchises to make this type of money.

[FallenAngel1984]

“It’s also five times what the most successful PS4 game to date, Horizon: Zero Dawn,”

I’m certain that Uncharted 4, God of War 4 & Spider-Man sold more than Horizon: Zero Dawn

[mandf]

Fallenangel

I'm not going to disagree but I would like to know the exact stats just out of curiosity.

[ORyanDeee]

google is your friend my dude

[mandf]

Just asking fallen a question. I not trying to be disrespectful or saying I know.

[Italiano1234567]

They did but most members of the video game media have no idea what there talking about. Ign is a great example.

[bluefox755]

It's not just gaming media, "journalism" has become a joke these days. It seems like most can't be bothered to even do 5 minutes of google searching before writing an article.

[conanlifts]

I don't see it being accurate but vgchartz has hzd at 5.84, god of war just over 6 million and Spider-Man and uncharted around 10 million.

The figures for GOW seem too low though as it sold over 3 million in the first few days.

[Dreamcatcher45]

GoW allready at 10 million.

[SamPao]

Remember its always only retail. We know HZD sold over 10million from their latest tweet

[elazz]

vgchartz stopped updating numbers and doesn't include digital

[Ratchet75]

VGChartz just track physical copies, not digital.
In 2018 digital sales were at 2/3 of physical so if GOW sold 10 million copies physically you can add around 6.6 million sold digitally.

[FallenAngel1984]

@ mandf

Well by the simple logic that Horizon: Zero Dawn took 2 years to reach 10 million while the other games I mentioned did that in less time, it should go without saying those titles sold more thus far.

Plus the most successful PS4 game to date overall is GTAV which has done over 20 million on the platform.

[Brazz]

That is the power of Waifus for you!

[Malice-Flare]

strange to me that Sony Music didn't put this out on the Vita/PS4. it could have saved the Vita and boosted sales in Japan...

[oasdada]

How have i never heard about this game

[TheColbertinator]

Real big in Japan and the rest of Asia. Not so much in the west.

[oasdada]

I live in asia

[TheColbertinator]

Then that is surprising. Most fgo fans I came across online are from China, Singapore, Korea, Vietnam.