{"id":30764,"date":"2018-07-06T18:32:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T18:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/321536"},"modified":"2018-07-06T18:32:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T18:32:00","slug":"pokemon-quest-nabs-7-5m-downloads-across-switch-and-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/06\/pokemon-quest-nabs-7-5m-downloads-across-switch-and-mobile\/","title":{"rendered":"Pokemon Quest nabs 7.5M downloads across Switch and mobile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Newsbrief: <\/strong>Game Freak\u2019s free-to-play blocky brawler <em>Pokemon Quest<\/em> has surpassed 7.5 million worldwide downloads across all platforms.<\/p>\n<p>While it won&#8217;t surprise\u00a0devs that a free-to-play Pokemon game has attracted a fair bit of attention, 7.5 million downloads is still a decently impressive pull since <em>Pokemon Quest<\/em> itself only launched roughly a month ago on Switch and arrived on Android and iOS just last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Pokemon Quest<\/em> has rapidly been crossing download milestones since its first release on the Switch; the title grabbed over 1 million downloads in its first two days\u00a0and hit 2.5 million on Switch alone by late June.<\/p>\n<p>While the companies behind the game haven\u2019t detailed how much revenue the game itself has pulled across all of those platforms since release, the free-to-play title did rake in a whopping <a href=\"https:\/\/gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/321331\/Pokemon_Quest_nets_3M_in_revenue_during_first_week_on_mobile.php\">$3 million in revenue on mobile devices<\/a> during just its first week out.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsbrief: Game Freak\u2019s free-to-play blocky brawler Pokemon Quest has surpassed 7.5 million worldwide downloads across all platforms. While it won&#8217;t surprise\u00a0devs that a free-to-play Pokemon game has attracted a fair bit of attention, 7.5 million downloads is still a decently impressive pull since Pokemon Quest itself only launched roughly a month ago on Switch and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30764","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\/30764","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=30764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}