Comments on: Japan surpasses China in gacha spending on Arknights: Endfield, accounting for 32% of overall mobile revenue, according to survey https://automaton-media.com/en/news/japan-surpasses-china-in-gacha-spending-on-arknights-endfield-accounting-for-32-of-overall-mobile-revenue-according-to-survey/ AUTOMATON is a website that covers the Japanese gaming world. We bring you the news on video games from Osaka and Tokyo. Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:50:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Malikfoxen https://automaton-media.com/en/news/japan-surpasses-china-in-gacha-spending-on-arknights-endfield-accounting-for-32-of-overall-mobile-revenue-according-to-survey/#comment-7994 Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:50:52 +0000 https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=64706#comment-7994 In reply to RPGpro.

What I find odd about this is that it was done via survey. An odd way to conduct research on spending and overall revenue per country. I’m wondering what kind of questions were on that survey and how they determined how much each user spent.

I’m sure the Endfield devs have the numbers. When it make more sense just to get those from them rather than conduct surveys on users?

]]> By: RPGpro https://automaton-media.com/en/news/japan-surpasses-china-in-gacha-spending-on-arknights-endfield-accounting-for-32-of-overall-mobile-revenue-according-to-survey/#comment-7962 Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:32:41 +0000 https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=64706#comment-7962 On a related note, PSO2 was available in Japan for 9 years (JUST short of 10 years) before the global release, according to Sega the global version players (it was still limited to the US, UK and a handful of European countries at the time, expanded to more countries much later) spent more money in 3 months than the Japanese players had spent over the entire 10 years.

So it’s not an industry trend that the Japanese players spend more on microtransactions/gachas, but rather they spend more on specific types and far less on others.
In the case of endfield the gacha is a character draw thst directly affects gameplay. (unlocks new characters/equipment with new skills/etc.)

While the pso2 gacha is purely cosmetics and has no effect at all on gameplay.

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