We as a civilisation have spent 30,342 collective years playing the Kim Kardashian: Hollywood video game since its release in 2014. Since God made the world in seven days, this should tell you that we’ve spent an extremely long time glued to Kimmy K on our phone screens, and it’s made her some solid stacks of money.
The socialite sister is out here doing some big numbers. Kim Kardashian: Hollywood has been downloaded 45 million times and generated $160 million, with Kardashian herself pocketing a cool $45 million of the share. It was enough to land her in the top half of the Forbes Hottest 100 list, while they’ve also put her on the cover of the latest issue with the title of “Mobile Mogul,” and they also describe her game as “groundbreaking.”
“I became really intrigued with the tech world. I started spending a lot of time in San Francisco. I realized this is really going to be the next cycle of my career and this is what I want to focus on,” she says of her extremely successful venture. She also says that Kanye West – who also has his own video game in the works – inspired her to make the jump into Apps and video games. “I remember I asked Kanye, ‘Should I do this?’ He was like, ‘Yes!’ That’s how he got into music, because he wanted to do music for videogames and wanted to create videogames.”
Say what you will about Kardashian – but there’s no denying that she’s capitalised on her fame with tremendous success and monetary gains. See the entire Forbes piece here, and Kardashian’s historic cover below. If you’d like to join the Kim Kardashian: Hollywood bandwagon, go ahead and download it right here:
