How much money do video games make in a minute

With billions of players around the world, the video game industry is booming, generating over $120.1 billion in 2019 – that’s more than the film and music industries combined! But which games are making the most money? And how is this split between game revenue and in-game spend?

We looked at some of the top grossing games of the last year and calculated just how much money they made each minute.

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Per minute earnings
Rank
Game title
Total revenue
Game revenue
In game spend
1
Fortnite: Battle Royale
£2740
£0
£2740
2
Dungeon Fighter Online
£2435
£0
£2435
3
League of Legends
£2283
£0
£2283
4
Crossfire
£2131
£0
£2131
5
Anthem
£1826
£0
£64
6
FIFA 19
£1196
£586
£610
7
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2019
£981
£457
£524
8
Overwatch
£907
£7
£480
9
Grand Theft Auto V
£905
£543
£362
10
Apex Legends
£808
£0
£808
11
FIFA 20
£767
£376
£391
12
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4
£741
£345
£396
13
NBA 2K20
£563
£337
£225
14
Tom Clancy's The Division 2
£563
£384
£178
15
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege
£544
£372
£172
16
Borderlands 3
£500
£500
£0
17
The Sims 4
£473
£232
£241
18
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
£408
£0
£408

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We used a combination of 2019 publisher financial reports and figures released by SuperData to gather the earnings per game, split by add-on and game revenue. When both figures weren't released for individual games, we used the publishers overall split of add-on vs game revenue for 2019, and the figures which were published, to estimate the remaining earnings.