Of course, Android is more important in these Asian markets than iPad, but looking at the Google Play top grossing charts (which are much less spiky than iOS because of the way Google calculates chart position) doesn't provide a much better picture for Gameloft.
(Incidentally it didn't find any audience in Japan, which is why the country doesn't appear on any of this week's graphs.) It's a similar story in Taiwan and Korea the game has hit good peaks - #14 in Taiwan and #15 in South Korea but seldom experienced week-on-week consistently.
In contrast, the game's performance in the Hong Kong market has been very volatile, at some points matching China, while dropping outside of the top 150 at others. The game peaked at #9 on the Chinese iPad top grossing chart and has remained in the top 50 for six weeks, although it is now slipping down. To find Dungeon Hunter 5's best market, we have to look outside of the west to China. However, in recent days, it's slipped out the top 100 in all three, suggesting that Gameloft is going to have to work hard on events and update to maintain this good start. In Russia, it's been a consistent top 50 game (peak #15), and a top 100 game in France (#25) and Germany (#41).
The situation is different when it comes to France, Germany and Russia, though. Peak performance in the US was a weak #121 however. Neither in Australia, the UK or the US has Dungeon Hunter 5 managed to sustain its performance, although it has peaked within the top 50 in Australia (#9) and the UK (#24). In terms of some of the main English-speaking markets, our first graph demonstrates plenty of volatility. Perhaps this is because of its filesize, which is listed at around 700 MB on the App Store, and installs at 1.3 GB, is more suited to a longform play device than the everyday and generally always-full iPhone.įor that reason, we've decided to look at its iOS performance on iPad. Unlike many games, Dungeon Hunter 5 has performed better on iPad than iPhone, at least in terms of its peak download positions. Unfortunately, it didn't go any further in terms putting real numbers to that statement, so being the curious beancounters we are, we've decided to run the game through our Charticle engine to see exactly where in the world it's making money. As part of its FY15 Q1 financials, French publisher Gameloft called Dungeon Hunter 5 its "highest ever revenue-generating game at launch".
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