{"id":54090,"date":"2025-11-19T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=54090"},"modified":"2025-11-19T15:03:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T06:03:32","slug":"fate-grand-orders-average-revenue-per-player-is-incomparable-to-other-japanese-gacha-data-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/fate-grand-orders-average-revenue-per-player-is-incomparable-to-other-japanese-gacha-data-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Fate\/Grand Order\u2019s average revenue per player is incomparable to other Japanese\u00a0gacha, data shows\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As of 2025,&nbsp;Lasengle\u2019s&nbsp;<strong>Fate\/Grand Order<\/strong>&nbsp;has been running for over ten years, making it far past the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/more-than-70-of-gacha-and-live-service-games-in-japan-get-discontinued-before-their-third-year-gacha-game-researcher-finds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">average life cycle of Japanese gacha games<\/a>.&nbsp;Investigating the factors behind the mobile RPG\u2019s&nbsp;longevity and success, Sensor Tower recently published interesting data about&nbsp;Fate\/Grand Order and&nbsp;how much money its&nbsp;playerbase&nbsp;is spending&nbsp;(as reported by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/0115765.com\/archives\/158413\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Otaku Soken<\/a>).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the report (which analyzes data from the&nbsp;Apple&nbsp;App Store and&nbsp;Google&nbsp;Play Store), Fate\/Grand Order has been downloaded over 12 million times in Japan between its launch in 2015 and August 2025,&nbsp;generating&nbsp;over&nbsp;$6 billion&nbsp;dollars in revenue.&nbsp;If we look at&nbsp;data from&nbsp;the past three years, it was the second best-selling mobile game in Japan, second only to MIXI\u2019s Monster Strike&nbsp;in terms of cumulative revenue.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1477\" height=\"820\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1477px) 100vw, 1477px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251119-54090-001.jpg\" alt=\"Fate\/Grand Order\" class=\"wp-image-54094\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251119-54090-001.jpg 1477w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251119-54090-001-380x211.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251119-54090-001-768x426.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Not only that,&nbsp;but&nbsp;when it comes to average revenue per download&nbsp;in the past three years,&nbsp;Fate\/Grand Order not only tops the charts, but&nbsp;sits&nbsp;way&nbsp;ahead&nbsp;of&nbsp;all of&nbsp;its&nbsp;competitors. The top&nbsp;five&nbsp;mobile&nbsp;games in Japan&nbsp;ranked by&nbsp;revenue per download&nbsp;were Fate\/Grand Order, Monster Strike,&nbsp;Umamusume: Pretty Derby, Professional Baseballs Spirits A&nbsp;and Puzzle &amp; Dragons. While the latter four titles range between $100 and $200, Fate\/Grand Order\u2019s average revenue per download ranges from $500 to $600, which Sensor Tower describes as \u201coverwhelmingly high.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another factor unique to&nbsp;the game&nbsp;is how it acquires new players&nbsp;\u2013 while mobile games&nbsp;tend to acquire a large portion of their&nbsp;traffic&nbsp;through paid ads, for&nbsp;Fate\/Grand Order, this accounts for less than 20%, which suggests&nbsp;a&nbsp;majority of&nbsp;players&nbsp;discover&nbsp;and&nbsp;install the game&nbsp;spontaneously.&nbsp;Sensor Tower&nbsp;attributes&nbsp;the game\u2019s popularity to its&nbsp;high-quality&nbsp;storyline and gameplay, but also to the skilled way&nbsp;in which it is run.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As an aside, past research has also&nbsp;indicated&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/fate-grand-orders-secret-to-maintaining-over-1-million-monthly-users-even-9-years-after-launch-an-unusually-high-retention-rate-according-to-study\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">that Fate\/Grand Order has an unusually high retention rate<\/a>&nbsp;for the genre,&nbsp;with 25% of&nbsp;new players&nbsp;continuing to play past&nbsp;the first&nbsp;90 days.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Related:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/japanese-gamers-average-gacha-spending-per-user-high-enough-to-offset-mobile-market-shrinkage-study-shows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Japanese gamers\u2019 average\u00a0gacha spending per user high enough to offset mobile market shrinkage, study shows<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/japanese-gacha-game-causes-unprecedented-sales-of-european-13th-century-classic-divine-comedy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Fate\/Grand Order causes European 13th century classic Divine Comedy to sell out across Japan<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fate\/Grand Oder has been running for over 10 years, but its revenue per download is still &#8220;overwhelmingly high,&#8221; Sensor Tower says. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":54092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-54090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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