{"id":103635,"date":"2019-11-13T21:41:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T21:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/353951"},"modified":"2019-11-13T21:41:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T21:41:00","slug":"tencents-online-game-revenue-surpasses-4-billion-in-q3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/11\/13\/tencents-online-game-revenue-surpasses-4-billion-in-q3\/","title":{"rendered":"Tencent&#8217;s online game revenue surpasses $4 billion in Q3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tencent\u2019s online game revenue is up 11 percent year-over-year for the quarter ending [September 30], coming in at RMB 28.6 billion or just over $4&nbsp;billion for the three-month period.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese company shared performance for its&nbsp;video game dealings alongside other departments in its latest financial report, noting that smartphone games, as well as advertising and commercial payment services, helped drive a 21 percent year-over-year increase in revenue for the company as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>Zeroing in on Tencent\u2019s game business, mobile games like <em>Honour of Kings<\/em>, <em>PUBG Mobile<\/em>, <em>Call of Duty Mobile<\/em>, and the China-only <em>PUBG<\/em>-like <em>Peacekeeper Elite <\/em>were called out as games with a strong showing this quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Riot Games\u2019 <em>Teamfight Tactics<\/em> was also called out for \u201cestablishing global leadership in the emerging auto chess genre\u201d alongside those notable mobile games, though as a whole PC game revenue decreased on both a yearly and quarterly basis despite gains made by <em>League of Legends <\/em>in China.<\/p>\n<p>Smartphone games alone saw a 25 percent increase in revenue, coming in at RMB 24.3 billion (~$3.5 billion) for the quarter, driven by \u201crobust performance of key domestic titles and increasing contributions from overseas.\u201d As mentioned before, revenue from PC client games decreased 7 percent year-on-year (and 2 percent from Q2) to RMB 11.5 billion (~$1.6 billion). However, Tencent attributes the bulk of this drop to high revenue last year driven by an in-game anniversary event.<\/p>\n<p>Tencent as a whole reported revenue of RMB 97.2 billion (~$13.8 billion), up 21 percent year-over-year, and non-IFRS operating profit of RMB 28.5&nbsp;billion (~$4 billion), up 27 percent year-over-year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tencent\u2019s online game revenue is up 11 percent year-over-year for the quarter ending [September 30], coming in at RMB 28.6 billion or just over $4&nbsp;billion for the three-month period. The Chinese company shared performance for its&nbsp;video game dealings alongside other departments in its latest financial report, noting that smartphone games, as well as advertising and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}