The game’s success points to a shifting balance of power in the $200 billion-a-year global video game industry, which has long been dominated by Japan and the United States.Ĭhinese developers, flush with cash from the country’s vast domestic market, are looking abroad for growth. And, unlike other popular Chinese games, it is believed to have generated most of its revenue from overseas. In its first year on the market, it raked in $2 billion, a record for mobile games, according to Sensor Tower, a firm that monitors mobile apps. Released in late 2020, the game is the first bona fide international smash hit for China’s video game industry. TOKYO - Genshin Impact, one of the world’s hottest mobile video games, has all the characteristics of a Japanese invention: giant robots human-size swords characters with huge eyes and spiky, rainbow-colored hair and a puzzling fixation on women in maid outfits. Credit…Noriko Hayashi for The New York Times An advertisement for Genshin Impact in the Akihabara district of Tokyo.

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