{"id":120236,"date":"2020-11-03T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/11\/pokemon_go_has_made_over_usd1bn_in_2020_making_this_its_best_year_yet"},"modified":"2020-11-03T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T17:00:00","slug":"pokemon-go-has-made-over-1bn-in-2020-making-this-its-best-year-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/11\/03\/pokemon-go-has-made-over-1bn-in-2020-making-this-its-best-year-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon GO Has Made Over $1bn In 2020, Making This Its Best Year Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Pokemon<\/a><\/figure>\n

According to new data estimates, Pok\u00e9mon GO<\/a> is enjoying its most successful year yet with more than $1 billion being made in player spending in the first ten months of 2020.<\/p>\n

The data comes from Sensor Tower<\/a>, which reports that player spending is already 11% up on last year with two months still left to go. The report notes that after a fantastic start to life in 2016, spending within the app dropped in 2017, before going on to rise year-on-year ever since. To date, Pok\u00e9mon GO has generated $4.2 billion in player spending.<\/p>\n

You can get an easy-to-understand look at this data in the chart below.<\/p>\n

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\"Pokemon<\/a>via Sensor Tower<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Sensor Tower says that the United States accounts for the largest chunk of spending in total, with revenue hitting $1.5 billion. Japan is second with $1.3 billion, while Germany ranks third with $238.6 million.<\/p>\n

The report claims that the app’s boosted success this year may well be thanks to a download and revenue increase seen across the mobile games market due to the global pandemic and the lockdowns that have been brought about as a result. Of course, Pok\u00e9mon GO introduced a number of features<\/a> this year to help players continue to enjoy the app from home \u2013 for a while, at least<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The next time someone says ‘Pok\u00e9mon GO’s a dead game, who even still plays that lol’, you might want to show them this… It looks like the game will be around for a good long while yet!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to new data estimates, Pok\u00e9mon GO is enjoying its most successful year yet with more than $1 billion being made in player spending in the first ten months of 2020. The data comes from Sensor Tower, which reports that player spending is already 11% up on last year with two months still left to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120236","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=120236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}