Destiny: Rising has brought in $9 million from in-app purchases just 20 days after launch, a new report says.
NetEase and Bungie’s new gacha mobile title, Destiny Rising, officially launched worldwide on August 28th, and it’s already getting strong reactions from longtime Destiny fans. Built from the ground up (and not a port of Destiny 2), the game features pretty much everything you’d expect from a Destiny game: strikes, PvP, story missions, secrets, and, of course, a raid.
It even features things like fishing, Sparrow racing mode, something fans have been asking Bungie to add in Destiny 2 for years. Now, it looks like we’ve got our first look at how Destiny Rising is doing financially.
Destiny Rising’s Early Revenue Puts It Behind Other Mobile Giants
According to Sensor Tower data cited by games research firm Naavik, Destiny: Rising generated ~2 million downloads and about $9 million in net in-app purchase revenue in its first 20 days. For context, Diablo Immortal reached ~13 million downloads and $39 million in a similar window.
That might sound like a decent haul for a mobile shooter, but for a game that reportedly cost over $100 million to develop, Naavik calls it “modest by NetEase standards.”
At the same time, the analysis points out that sentiment is trending positive, helped by timing and by features that “feel” like the MMO some Destiny players have wanted on the go.
As Naavik puts it, “These projects either hit $100M-plus in annual revenue or quietly vanish; there’s no middle ground. Destiny: Rising has the polish, but the genre and platform combo — sci-fi looter shooter on mobile — is still unproven at that level.”
In related news, Destiny: Rising recently received its first major community event: the Eclipse World First Raid Race, which happened last week. Similar to the Destiny 2 raid races, the developers announced exclusive real-world rewards for the winning team, raid rings worth about $500 each.
What do you think? Are you enjoying Destiny Rising so far? Do you think it has a long-term future? Let us know your thoughts below.
