On May 22, 2024, the Chinese company Kuro Games launched the gacha RPG Wuthering Waves on PCs and smartphones. In a mere five days, Wuthering Waves surged to earn a staggering $9.74 million in IAPs, even after accounting for mobile store fees and taxes, as reported by the analytics platform AppMagic.
- The main markets for the game were China ($3.7 million), Japan ($1.69 million) and the U.S. ($1.62 million)
- Wuthering Waves has been downloaded 5.93 million times
- Wuthering Waves is most popular in China (1.5 million downloads)
- USA (1.07 million downloads)
- Indonesia (443.2 thousand downloads)
In comparison to Wuthering Waves, Genshin Impact, a game often mentioned alongside Wuthering Waves, achieved remarkable success by generating over $24 million in revenue within the first 5 days of its release on mobile devices. Additionally, it garnered an impressive 6.7 million downloads during the same period.
