![]() Pick up my sci-fi novels, The Last Exodus, The Exiled Earthborn and The Sons of Sora, which are now in print, online and on audiobook. ![]() In contrast, Ingress, Niantic's last AR game on which Pokemon GO is built, only made $1.1M in its entire lifespan.įollow me on Twitter and on Facebook. With Pokmon GO, Pokmon fans can discover Pokmon in a whole new world. Update: Some updates via SuperData, who says Pokemon GO has brought in $14.04 million across all mobile platforms since launch when it became the highest grossing game on both iOS and Android. Never mind you can download the latest version Pokmon GO APK on APKPure anytime. ![]() For now, the craze only seems to be escalating, and with a full global launch still to come, this is only the beginning. Who knows what will try to ride the coattails of GO’s success? But without Pokémon, and without Niantic’s years of Ingress data which serves as the skeleton for GO, it’s hard to imagine anything getting anywhere close.Įven as initial estimates, these numbers are extremely impressive, and will likely only continue to get more impressive as time goes on. Nintendo’s last “fad” blockbuster hit, the Wii, made Sony make the Move and Microsoft the Kinect. But it’s easy to imagine that the crux of the reason this works at all is not because AR itself has suddenly become a thing, but because this is Pokémon we’re talking about here, and I’m not sure what other properties can achieve something like this without that franchise. Obviously in the wake of Pokémon GO’s success, the game is likely to spawn a number of imitators that are chasing after this kind of revenue. But here, in the form of Pokémon GO, we have “concept + execution” success in a way that has become a full blown worldwide cultural phenomenon, and players are having so much fun they don’t think twice about throwing money at the game. Nintendo has been extremely hesitant to dive into mobile, given their own position in handheld hardware, and their first forays like Miitomo haven’t exactly taken the world by storm.
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