• woelkchen@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Steam is peanuts compared to phone games. Candy Crush Saga has over a billion downloads on Android alone where it’s the #3 top grossing casual game. On Apple it’s still the #21 puzzle game.

    I know that a billion overall downloads is different from a billion daily users. This is just to put it into perspective that Steam is not the benchmark when it comes to the overall number of gamers out there. Mobile is.

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      2 hours ago

      yeah but that would mean xbox games would have to be more like mobile ones. thats a product destroying idea if I ever heard one.

    • KuroiKaze@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      Subway surfers have over three billion installs just from the play version I’ve seen somewhere. That said that means devices not daily active users but still it’s an insane number compared to console and PC.