Monopoly Go becomes the fastest mobile game in history to generate over $1 billion in revenue in 7 months

Scopely , a game company under Savvy Games , a Saudi Arabian e-sports related company, has announced that its mobile game Monopoly Go has earned $1 billion (approximately 150 billion yen) in the market's fastest ``7 months since release''. is reported to have been achieved.

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Scopely is an American game company founded in 2011, and was acquired by Savvy Games for $4.9 billion (approximately 730 billion yen) in April 2023, and in the same month of the same year, the iOS and Android versions of Monopoly Go were released in 120 countries. Released for.

Monopoly Go is a game based on the American board game 'Monopoly'. The original Monopoly is a game where you aim to monopolize the city by purchasing cities and railways, building properties, and negotiating with other players, but in Monopoly Go, you simply roll the dice and earn money while building monuments in the city. It is a game called Iku, and it has a game system that is specialized for single player play.

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Monopoly Go is a basically free app that uses microtransactions to purchase in-game currency and dice. Even if you develop a city by rolling dice with a limited number remaining, buildings will be demolished if attacked by other players, so you will need in-game currency and new dice to rebuild them.

According to Scopely, Monopoly Go has already been downloaded over 100 million times at the time of writing. Additionally, players have passed GoMas over 40 billion times, friends have sent over 150 million invites, games have been completed nearly 2 billion times, and players have been sent to prison. It is said that the number of times it has been used is approximately 6 billion.

According to Scopely, Monopoly Go generates more than $200 million in revenue per month, and reaching $1 billion in revenue within seven months of its release is the fastest in mobile game history. I am reporting.

'The success of Monopoly Go highlights the power of the Monopoly brand to continue to captivate players and connect fans in unprecedented ways,' said Chris Cox, CEO of Hasbro, the company that sells Monopoly. 'We have developed a very fun and engaging game and set a record in the highly competitive mobile gaming market.'

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