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Plants vs Zombies 2 reaches 16M downloads in five days

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Electronic Arts said today that Plants vs. Zombies 2: It’s About Time is its most successful mobile game launch in history, with more than 16 million downloads in just five days on Apple’s iTunes App Store.

This is a boost for Apple, which has focused on getting timed exclusives for its iOS devices. Plants vs. Zombies 2 came out Thursday, more than four years after the original game was released. It’s seen one of the biggest opening weekends on the App Store ever for a mobile title, and critics have rated it an average of 87 out of 100 on Metacritic, a review aggregation site. We rated it 90 ourselves and interviewed senior producer Bernard Yee about the decisions that developer PopCap Games made in designing the game.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.