{"id":107186,"date":"2020-01-10T17:36:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T17:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/356537"},"modified":"2020-01-10T17:36:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T17:36:00","slug":"analyst-with-894-million-in-revenue-2019-marked-pokemon-gos-best-year-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/01\/10\/analyst-with-894-million-in-revenue-2019-marked-pokemon-gos-best-year-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"Analyst: With $894 million in revenue, 2019 marked Pokemon Go&#8217;s best year so far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sensor Tower estimates clock 2019 as <em>Pokemon Go<\/em>\u2019s best year so far, surpassing even the year of its landmark launch. Last year saw <em>Pokemon Go <\/em>reap an estimated $894 million in player spending, surpassing the estimated $832 million it generated back in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Keep in mind that these estimates come from a third party analyst and not developer Niantic itself, but even when taken with a grain of salt the ballpark numbers show 2019 as a strong year for the AR game.<\/p>\n<p>By Sensor Tower\u2019s count, most of last year\u2019s revenue came from the United States (38 percent), followed by Japan (23 percent), and Germany (6 percent). On a platform by platform basis, Google Play players accounted from the lions share of player spending, with $482 million of that $894 million coming from those on Android devices. Sensor Tower offers a closer examination of those estimates <a href=\"https:\/\/sensortower.com\/blog\/pokemon-go-has-best-year-ever-in-2019-catching-nearly-900m-usd-in-player-spending\">over on its site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sensor Tower estimates clock 2019 as Pokemon Go\u2019s best year so far, surpassing even the year of its landmark launch. Last year saw Pokemon Go reap an estimated $894 million in player spending, surpassing the estimated $832 million it generated back in 2016. Keep in mind that these estimates come from a third party analyst [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}