Last week, Sensor Tower released data revealing the latest Nintendo-published game Dragalia Lost had grossed an estimated $3.5 million in the first five days. Its limited-size launch placed it behind every existing Nintendo mobile game including Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp.
New data now shows a more promising future for the Cygames developed title. In the first two weeks, the game grossed an estimated $16 million. $13.5 million of spending was predominantly linked to Japan and the US. This places it ahead of Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp over the same two week period, as can be seen below:
According to Sensor Tower, Japanese players are still the primary market for the game, totalling 69 percent of in-game spending. 16 percent of spending comes from the US, and Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau cover the remaining 15 percent. iOS users also make up 60 percent of the game's player base.
Compared to the first week, Cygames' release is the 10th ranked iPhone game in terms of revenue in Japan. It's moved up one place since last week. In the US it's dropped from the 55th to the 62nd place. In terms of Google Play revenue, it's dropped from 3rd to 5th place in Japan and in the US it's gone from 35th to 32nd place.
Have you played Dragalia Lost yet? Have you spent money in the game? Do you play other Nintendo mobile titles? Tell us below.
[source sensortower.com]
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That's pretty impressive. Can't say I've ever heard of the game though.
Oh, I see. My device isn't 'approved' to play this game :/
Whatever Nintendo, your loss.
The idea of playing an RPG on a phone with a touch screen only interface interests me only slightly more than visiting the dentist...
It's a bad promising sign.
It's a fantastic game! I hope they release a Switch port with actual button input. But the controls that it comes with is still decent.
As well it should. Dragalia Lost is my favorite Nintendo Mobile game
It is indeed a promising sign. I hope that its success will encourage Nintendo to keep experimenting with new IP's and development partners, especially in the area of RPG's.
@Xaessya What does that mean?
Easy to read the title as Dragalia Lost 16 million dollars lol
@NinjaWaddleDee It's unlikely to be ported to any console. You can see from the controls, gameplay to monetization that the game is designed to play on phones only.
I'm trying to play this game on my phone but I can't find it on iOS App Store on my phone, i guess it's not in the canadian store yet, oh well...
@Slasher
Some people are worried that Nintendo is going to focus more on mobile games due to their success. It's a silly idea, but people can believe what they want.
That’s nice but when is Europe going to get it?
@NinjaWaddleDee Since it looks to be a success, maybe Cygames will develop a console sequel, which I'd prefer to a port.
This can only mean bad news for those millions who can't access the game regionally. Nintendo is gonna think the Americans and handful of other countries are the only ones that deserve their mobile games.
Pathetic as always
Hasn’t gotten a dime from me, though I’m pretty hooked. If only the Extra mode on the first Raid was more accessible, guess that’s to encourage you to sink money into it.
@Heavyarms55. Its literally just wonder through a simple maze, tap your phone to defeat a fee enemies, then slide your finger to beat a boss and tap your phone to hit him. Every level.
It sucks tbh. Idk why anyone enjoys this.
Fire Emblem was fun though.
Im gonna give it a chance when its available in the netherlands
The game has performed quite well in Japan and the rest of Asia.
Unfortunately, its performance in the US leaves a lot to be desired.
Glad to see FEH on top, as it should be. Dragalia's rates are absolutely rubbish. Hopefully they learn that being a bit more generous pays off.
It's a fine game, though it's pretty simple and repetitive, and I stopped playing after two days. Mobile games are just too simple. Hopefully they take the I.P and put it on actual systems.
@Trajan Fire Emblem just made me feel like a gamling addict playing a nearly pay-to-win watered down version of one of my favorite game series...
I'm thoroughly hooked!!! The current event has a raid where four players have their characters take down a boss. It's crazy fun watching 16 characters go at it on a big volcanic dragon. I happily spent money on it after I found myself really enjoying all the different tasks. Even if I eventually quit playing months from now, I've really had a blast. Halloween event starts in 5 days!!!
I live in the UK... so apparently, Nintendo doesn't want my cash hard enough... not even enough to offer a possible release window... let alone date...
The best thing out of this game is first, the music.
Then the story.
The gameplay is decent out of most mobile games I played at least, and you can see it got that high budget hallmark all over it
@puddinggirl "the game is designed to play on phones only."
Well, phones and tablets, and the Switch is a tablet at it's core, with Joycon and dock accessories, so no reason it couldn't work on the Switch as is. Though I do hope it gets ported with proper controls. And Nintendo has put several pay-to-win games on 3DS, like Pokémon, so it's only a matter of time before they come to Switch. Switch already has Fortnite, don't get much more free-to-start than that.
I played this game for about a week but haven't gone back to it b/c I've been doing other stuff, but I'm pretty sure I will, at least as long as the main story keeps progressing, I don't care about online, just the story. Though the trainer girl storyline was fun as well.
I think my biggest problem is I don't play mobile games, so every time I boot it up it takes me 15 minutes before I can start playing - collect my daily bonus, collect the coins from the castle, feed the dragons, download my free stuff from the store, collect my stuff earned from collecting the other stuff, read what's available to play and when it's expiring and what I'm capable of playing - my team is only 4,000 so only so much I can do. Some days I just turn it off after that. I'll probably play more after the holidays in the dead of winter, it's still too nice to be inside now.
Anybody else wondering why this game is all over the My Nintendo page but it isn't linked up in any other way regarding coins or prizes? FE, SMR and AC:BC are all there, just not this one. I find it odd.
I think this is pretty promising for a new IP. I'm enjoying the game myself. At least at the beginning the game gives a lot of free currency, though I usually spend some money on gacha's and have spent a little bit.
@Kalmaro Forget device approval...my entire country isn't approved XD
@Ernest_The_Crab Glad I'm not the ONLY one. Oh well, plenty of other games.
As someone who recently quit the Animal Crossing Mobile game it just never got better.
It's basically just a grindy fetch quest game.
Than they added loot boxes into the game.
They never really made much improvements since the game's launch, if anything, they made the game more grindy in areas to try and encourage you to spend real money to skip it.
"Not available in your country" - I would comment on this availability and I would also show a distinct lack of self-control in my use of profanity and bad language. It would probably stretch across many paragraphs and wouldn't go down well with the community here...but I think I'll just go play Disgaea on my Switch instead.
sigh I'm just so tired of getting shafted by companies these days.
Color me pleasantly surprised by how many of you enjoy this game, and how well it is doing. The only Nintendo app game I spend any real amount of time with is Animal Crossing, especially since they just started the Eevee scavenger hunt event this morning. I gave Dragalia a good chance, and deleted it about a week ago mostly because it takes up almost 2gb and constantly adding to that with every new level was maddening.
The touchscreen action gameplay is for younger men than me, I'd have preferred a traditional turn based rpg if it was going to be on a phone, but hey most things these days are not made for me. As long as Pocket Camp doesn't wind up as the next Miitomo, I will be happy.
Android and APK solved the problem that my country is not supported yet. The game is amazing for a mobile game. So much stuff to do and the raid was very entertaining.
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