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There are money-making video games, after which there are money-making video games. And it seems that miHoYo’s gacha title Genshin Impression is most assuredly one of many latter — Based on a brand new report by the quantity crunchers over at Sensor Tower, the anime-infused journey title has earned a staggering $3 billion USD in income since its preliminary launch within the fall of 2020.

The beautiful girls of the land of Teyvat have been unsurprisingly profitable at conserving an enormous military of gamers coming again for extra, drop-feeding characters, quests, limited-time occasions, and different content material to its customers over the previous two years. Maybe much more shockingly, Sensor Tower’s numbers appear to correlate solely to the iOS and Android cell editions of Genshin Impression, so the determine doesn’t even think about gross sales on PlayStation and PC.

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Genshin Impression continues to be not fairly the largest earner within the biz, nonetheless, and sits behind Tencent’s cell juggernaut Honor of Kings on the listing of annual top-earners. Nonetheless, at this level, evidently GI‘s revenue solely exhibits indicators of acceleration, and thus will probably be fascinating to see how the enjoying subject seems on the finish of 2022. Regardless, GI has already turn into one of many fastest-earning video video games of all time.

The report comes throughout one thing of a tumultuous week for miHoYo, who’ve been compelled to postpone the launch of GI‘s latest replace. Whereas no official motive was supplied for the delay of Model 2.7, it’s believed that the emergency COVID lockdown restrictions activated in China have put a sudden stranglehold on a lot of the nation’s trade. miHoYo is but to announce a substitute launch date.

Genshin Impression is out there now on PlayStation, PC, and cell platforms. A Nintendo Swap port is reportedly within the works, although updates have been very quiet on this version’s growth progress.

Chris Moyse

Senior Editor – Chris has been enjoying video video games because the Nineteen Eighties. Former Saturday Night time Slam Grasp. Graduated from Galaxy Excessive with honors. Twitter: @ChrisxMoyse