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Gacha games are video games that implement the gashapon mechanic. Gashapon is a type of a Japanese vending machine in which people insert a coin to acquire a random toy capsule. In gacha games, players pay virtual currency (bought with real money or acquired in-game) to acquire random game characters or pieces of equipment of varying rarity and ...
The game's action-based battle system revolves around quick character-switching and the usage of combat skills in an anime-style environment. The game is free-to-play and features a gacha game system, through which in-app purchases are used as a method for monetization. It garnered over US$70 million in its first month of release.
The game's largest mobile market is China with 30% of revenue, followed by Japan with 23% and then the United States with 20% of revenue. [158] Based on a December 16, 2023 survey conducted by Nikkei Entertainment, the fanbase of Genshin Impact within Japan has an average age of 27 years, and a male-to-female ratio that skews 60:40. [159]
Most common gacha games are free-to-play (F2P) mobile role-playing games with an emphasis on team building and player improvisation. [1] [2] The gacha game model has been around since the early 90s with Strategy Trading Card Games such as Magic: the Gathering, but began to be widely used in the early 2010s in mobile gaming by Japan.
Bleach: Brave Souls is a free-to-play gacha mobile game developed and published by KLabGames. Set in the Bleach universe, it was released for Android and iOS in Japan in July 2015 and worldwide in January 2016. [3] It was released for Microsoft Windows in August 2020 and for PlayStation 4 in March 2022. [4]
Heaven Burns Red (ヘブンバーンズレッド, Hebun Bānzu Reddo) (stylized in block capitals) is a free-to-play mobile action game [citation needed] co-developed by WFS, inc. and Key. It was released on February 10, 2022, for iOS and Android in Japan, and worldwide in 15 November 2024. [ 2 ]
This is a listing of largest video game publishers and developers ranked by reported revenue. Sony Interactive Entertainment is the world's largest video game company, followed by Tencent and Microsoft Gaming. [1] Out of the 63 largest video game companies, 14 are located in the United States, 11 in Japan, and 7 in South Korea and China.
In the video game industry, games as a service (GaaS) (also referred to as a live service game) represents providing video games or game content on a continuing revenue model, similar to software as a service. Games as a service are ways to monetize video games either after their initial sale, or to support a free-to-play model. Games released ...