![]() That game has also been a smash hit and just crossed more than 1 billion downloads worldwide. Tencent is also the owner of the studio Lightspeed & Quantum, which develops PUBG: Mobile. Sources also said that the 10 billion revenue would make TiMi the world’s largest developer. And Tencent purchased 40 percent of Epic Games in 2012, a stake that grown in value significantly following the huge success of Epic’s Fortnite. TiMi Studios is the developer of wildly popular titles including Pokmon UNITE, Call of Duty: Mobile, Arena of Valor, Honor of Kings, and Speed Drifters. It bought a majority stake of League of Legends developer Riot Games in 2011 and then full ownership in 2015. Tencent has long-standing investments in some US-based gaming companies. Tencent is also building a TiMi studio in Los Angeles, according to Reuters. TiMi is recruiting for a new AAA game that “resembles the virtual community from the movie Ready Player One,” Reuters reports, which seems to suggest TiMi wants to make its own metaverse-like game in the vein of Fortnite and Roblox. It doesn’t seem like Tencent and TiMi will be taking a break from development anytime soon. And Honor of Kings, which is only available in China, had an astounding 100 million daily active users as of November 2020, according to Tencent. Call of Duty: Mobile reportedly had the biggest mobile game launch ever when it released in October 2019, racking up over 100 million downloads worldwide in its first week of availability. While TiMi might not be a household name, its games are some of the biggest in the world. For comparison, Activision Blizzard (which publishes the Call of Duty franchise) posted 2020 revenues of $8.09 billion, nearly $2 billion less than TiMi’s reported $10 billion. While it’s unclear exactly what metric that is defining, it’s a undoubtably a huge number. The popular mobile game Honor of Kings certainly plays a part in that incredible profit, but the power of Call of Duty certainly impacts the studio’s successes as well.TiMi Studios, the Tencent-owned developer of huge mobile hits Call of Duty: Mobile and the MOBA Honor of Kings, earned a staggering $10 billion in revenue in 2020.Īccording to a report published by Reuters, these earnings make TiMi the “world’s largest developer,” as per its sources. The mobile studio’s revenue, however, is a shock to many. We know the success of the console games and the newly added battle royale experience are significant. That leaves Treyarch and Infinity Ward to already start working on the 2022 Call of Duty game as well as continue support for Warzone. The latest Call of Duty 2021 release rumors points to Sledgehammer Games working on an alt-history game. While they’re doing that, Activision-Blizzard has three studios now working on the console/PC Call of Duty games. Timi Studios can continue to be one of the biggest mobile devs in the world with Call of Duty Mobile. It’s part of how Call of Duty can continue to grow in this new decade. That said, hundreds of thousands around the world play the game daily. The mobile game is likely the least well-known by traditional console gamers. When we look at a game like Call of Duty, there are a number of projects that play into the larger series. Activision-Blizzard, however, gets the joys of publishing the game under their larger Call of Duty umbrella. The studio is a subsidiary of Tencent, the Chinese multi-tech conglomerate. $10 billion is impressive for a small-time publisher, but for a relatively unknown studio, it’s quite remarkable. Per Reuters, Call of Duty Mobile developer Timi Studios makes more money than many might expect. What sort of implications might this success have on the mainline Call of Duty series? How Call of Duty Mobile Developer Timi Studios Quietly Became an Industry Giant Along with Call of Duty Mobile, the studio also developed Honor of Kings. Recent reports point to the studio’s massive success under its parent company Tencent as being a surprise to gamers but no shock to other mobile developers. As someone who doesn’t play Call of Duty Mobile, their developer was sort of out of my radar. If you’re like me, then the name of the studio might be new to you. That’s the amount of money Call of Duty Mobile developer Timi Studios made in 2020. It’s a bit harder to miss something like a $10 billion profit. It’s easy to pay attention to games like Genshin Impact that rise the ranks of mobile titles quickly. There’s a huge market in mobile gaming we often overlook.
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