Seemingly receding, PUBG still leisurely sold more than 10 million copies over the past 1 year

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PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has become a phenomenon and is the leader of the genre battle royale in the early stages of launch, however, some games that came later such as Fortnite, Apex Legends and Black Ops 4 have “taken down” PUBG. The game that once created a battle royale fever, although not as hot as it used to be, still achieved a breakthrough.

PUBG sold ten million copies in 18 months, on both PC and console. Analyst Daniel Ahmad said the total sales of the game has achieved 60 million unitsup from 50 million units reported by PUBG Corp in June 2018.
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The above numbers can be calculated across multiple platforms as the Xbox One version of PUBG entered early access in December 2017, the full PlayStation 4 version was released a year later, in December 2017. 2018. PUBG’s regular player count also makes the game one of the top three on Steam, along with CS: GO and Dota 2.

The above figures do not include PUBG Mobile. The mobile version has more than 600 million downloads and is about to surpass $1 billion in sales – excluding sales in China.
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The success of PUBG has guided the development of multiplayer games for the past few years and will even have a strong impact on titles released in the near future.​