Talk:List of highest-grossing mobile games

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• NetEase’s Ghost Story is also among the top ten highest earning mobile games of 2017 with revenue of $860m. [1] - thats more than the amount of money other games made in their entire life, so it deserves a place in this list, I think

Avram25 (talk) 01:12, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

Added Panda619 (talk) 13:24, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

Updated

PUBG Mobile made 259 million dollars in January 2021. Which makes it as $4,583,000,000. https://sensortower.com/blog/top-mobile-games-by-worldwide-revenue-january-2021#:~:text=PUBG%20Mobile%20from%20Tencent%20was,year%20growth%20from%20January%202020.

Please update the list immediately ! Game for Game (talk) 06:31, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

Update Brawl stars

Brawl stars revenue has surpassed 1 billion usd. It will need to be moved on the list.May someone do that? https://www.pocketgamer.biz/news/75658/brawl-stars-shoots-past-1-billion-in-lifetime-revenue/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by All good usernames are taken 1234 (talk • contribs) 17:39, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

This Page's Transclusion is confusing

I tried to update the list. But I cannot complete it because Transclusion is confusing me. So someone please make it easy to edit or update the PUBG Mobile's revenue to 5.1 billion.

Source - https://www.insidesport.co/pubg-mobile-crosses-usd-5-billion-lifetime-revenue-1-billion-downloads/ Game for Game (talk) 06:51, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

Regarding games with "gacha" genre listed

Is there any criteria for why some gacha games are listed with Gacha as part of their genre/type, but not all games which are gachas have that listed? Some of these games are very clearly gacha games but don't seem to have said label on this list, and I was wondering if there was any reason why. Yamakirisei (talk) 22:38, 3 June 2021 (UTC)

I don't see any reason why it should be listed as a genre. "Gacha" is a type of F2P business model, rather than a genre in itself. That would be like calling "loot box" games a genre. And most of the games on this list use some type of F2P business model or other. I don't think it should be listed under Genre. Maestro2016 (talk) 22:06, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

Problems with methodology and accuracy

There are some really big problems with methodology used to determine the values in the "Revenue" column. Take the "$8,578,340,000" figure for "Puzzle & Dragons" for example. This figure was apparently calculated by adding up the values in the notes section:

Up until October 2018 – $7 billion[1][16]

November 2018 – $52 million+[12]

December 2018 – $68 million+[13]

2019 (Japan) – ¥52.2 billion[17][18] ($479 million)

June–December 2020 (Japan) – ¥24,156.02 million[19] ($234.34 million)[20]

2021 – $745 million[15]

There are some obvious problems here:

1. This data is not comprehensive. There is a gap from January 2020 to May 2020.

2. The data is from multiple sources, which may use different means of calculating a game's revenue.

3. The information from some of the links is misrepresented. For example, for December 2018, the reference is https://sensortower.com/blog/top-mobile-games-december-2018. This site does not say that "Puzzle & Dragons" earned 68 million in December of 2018, but only that "Fortnite" earned 68 million that month in App Store revenue only. The person who added this number put a nebulous "68 million+" in the citation, presumably based on the "Puzzle & Dragons" out-earning "Fortnite" in overall revenue that month. This 68 million was added to the total revenue of "Puzzle & Dragons" even though the figure is likely inaccurate.

I've found at least one source that contradicts the information in this article. https://www.pocketgamer.biz/feature/77017/top-10-highest-grossing-mobile-games-of-all-time/entry/5/ estimates that "Puzzle & Dragon" had made $6.3 billion in lifetime revenue as of June 2022.

Compare this to the List of highest-grossing films article. This article clearly explains that it is using theatrical revenue, and is fairly consistent in using Box Office Mojo as its main source. It is disingenuous to claim that these revenue figure are accurate, and to even have the list sorted by them, when they are at best incomplete estimates. The article header should note that revenue figures are not comprehensive at the very least. 98.37.140.153 (talk) 01:29, 15 September 2022 (UTC)

Yeah, this page is a mess. The majority of this was Maestro2016's work who is now banned. I do agree there should be a note stating the figures are not comprehensive. Timur9008 (talk) 11:43, 6 December 2022 (UTC)

Update the top game

The top game should be Honor of Kings, not Mobile Legends. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.180.58.28 (talk) 03:30, 10 December 2022 (UTC)

Setting

I think we need to change layout similar to List of best-selling video game franchises we could do the following sections

at least $100 million

at least $250 million

at least $500 million

at least $1 billion

at least $5 billion

at least $10 billion

Fan Of Lion King 🦁 (talk) 16:32, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

@Fanoflionking not much of point I don't think given this page has been sent to Draft Timur9008 (talk) 09:39, 20 May 2023 (UTC)

So what the plan then are we going try to make it suitable for mainspace or just abandoned itFan Of Lion King 🦁 (talk) 10:41, 20 May 2023 (UTC)

The sources need to be checked first per the Jagged 85 maintenance template Timur9008 (talk) 10:46, 20 May 2023 (UTC)

Proposed redirect to list of highest-grossing media franchises

Timur9008 proposes to change this article to redirect to List of highest-grossing media franchises due to the sketchy nature most of the article was made under. I'm just not sure that directly cutting over to another article is necessary, especially since the page can still be salvaged (or perhaps is already).

I would personally be fine with the change so long as whoever wants the redirect puts in the work to move the properly-cited figures over to List of highest-grossing media franchises. TechKnight25 (talk) 15:45, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

pinging @Masem, @IceWelder, @Sergecross73, @QuicoleJR, @TheJoebro64, @Ferret Timur9008 (talk) 15:50, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

Why was I pinged? QuicoleJR (talk) 15:51, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

Would love your opinion. Timur9008 (talk) 15:56, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

Errr...why is it "sketchy"...? Sergecross73 msg me 16:05, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

Article is User:Maestro2016/Jagged 85 work hence the Jagged 85 cleanup template at the top of the article that was put by TheJoebro64 last year [2] Timur9008 (talk) 16:11, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

@Sergecross73 Jagged85 wrote almost all of it. -- ferret (talk) 16:11, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

Oh gotcha, nevermind. I misread the comment - I thought they were accusing the redirect move itself of being sketchy. Fully support merging any of Jagged's hack jobs. Sergecross73 msg me 16:37, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

Reading the context behind the banned user, I would also support redirecting this, with no prejudice against recreation by a different editor. QuicoleJR (talk) 17:24, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

User:TechKnight25 I'm gonna redirect the page if there are no objections given the consensus. Timur9008 (talk) 14:03, 8 December 2023 (UTC)