2023-11-10 21:10:03
Game News This Dragon Ball video game is so popular that it generated more than 15% of the franchise’s total profits
Published on 11/10/2023 at 10:10 p.m.
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Born in 1984, Dragon Ball is a cult work. Born under the pencil and pen of mangaka Akira Toriyama, the manga has continued to the present day with Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball GT, Dragon Ball Super and, soon, Dragon Ball Daima. But the franchise is global, with anime, films, figurines, cards, games and everything you can imagine.
Dragon Ball: a franchise adapted everywhere, including video games
In almost 40 years, Dragon Ball has established itself everywhere, and in almost all sectors. The popularity of the franchise goes well beyond the anime and manga, since tens of thousands of derivative products can be found. Figurines and cards are obviously popular, but it is not not uncommon to come across clothes, dishes, and everyday objects in the colors of the Dragon Ball license as a whole (understand Dragon Ball and everything that followed). Video games were no exceptionand many games have been released on most consoles.
From Dragon Ball 3: Gokū den on WonderSwan to Dragon Ball Z Kakarot via Dragon Ball FighterZ, Budokai Tenkaichi or even Xenoverse and Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku 2, there has been plenty to do. But maybe it’s good on mobile that the license met with its greatest successwith a title that would have generated a good portion of overall revenue of the license. You may have played it, and you may still be playing it since it is Dragon Ball Z Dokkan Battle, available on iOS and Android. The title was launched in 2015, and opts for a fast-RPG approach in which the fights are managed a bit like a game of Puzzle Bobble.
Dokkan Battle would account for a lot of the franchise’s revenue
Many characters are to unlock through summons, the challenges are constantly renewed, many events take place, and the missions are legion. Players can spend money in the store, but also use the collected resources. The title is quite generous in resources, but obviously, many players inject real money. And suffice to say that to straw formulassince according to Gen Murai, who works for the digital edition of Weekly Bunshun (Shūkan Bunshun), the revenue generated by Dragon Ball Z Dokkan Battle would be 480 billion yen, or around 3 billion euros.
Relative to the franchise’s total revenue, estimated at 3,000 billion yen (18.5 billion euros)this would mean that Bandai’s mobile game contributes 15% of license revenue. Amounts that must be taken with big tweezers, since they have never been presented in this way by the rights holders. Gen Murai’s statement even surprised Shinichiro Akaishijournalist and former Weekly Bunshun editorial staffer, who compared the amount Dokkan Battle would have generated to the budget of a small country.
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