PUBG Mobile Hits 100 Million Downloads in Less Than 5 Months

Aug. 17, 2018

In less than five months since itslaunch on Android and iOS,PUBG Mobilehas surpassed 100 million downloads worldwide. In a press release announcing the milestone, publisher Tencent Games congratulated the game’s developers and thanked the millions for making the game a runaway success.

In a prepared statement, PUBG Mobile general manager, Vincent Wang, said that the company will keep raising the bar for mobile gaming, and promised more exclusive content in the coming months.

“We will continue to set the bar for mobile gaming and look to deliver even more great contents to our players later this year”

After themassive success of PUBGon PC and XBOX, a scaled-down version of the game was launched on mobile earlier this year. The company back in May announced that the game had as many as10 million daily active playerson Android and iOS combined, and is among the most downloaded apps on both the Play Store and the App Store.

In the most recent major update,PUBG Mobile also added a War Mode, a more frenzied version of the classic mode, which means players are more likely to make play more than one match at a time.

The company earlier this month alsolaunched PUBG Mobile Lite, a less-resource-hungry version of the game for low-end smartphones. While PUBG Lite is yet to hit many markets, it has the potential to become a massive hit, as it already gives youa very good gameplay experience. You can download PUBG Mobile Lite for your phone byfollowing these steps.

Consumer spending in PUBG Mobile has steadily increased since it arrive on the scene. In June, the game saw anincrease of 365 percentin in-game revenue thanks to the launch of theRoyale Pass. The game also recentlyreceived a new themebased on Tom Cruise’s‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout’as part of a deal between Tencent and Paramount Pictures.

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