{"id":31477,"date":"2018-07-09T18:25:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T18:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/321643"},"modified":"2018-07-09T18:25:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T18:25:00","slug":"analyst-two-years-in-pokemon-go-crosses-1-8b-lifetime-revenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/09\/analyst-two-years-in-pokemon-go-crosses-1-8b-lifetime-revenue\/","title":{"rendered":"Analyst: Two years in, Pokemon Go crosses $1.8B lifetime revenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that<em> Pokemon Go<\/em> has been out in the wild for two years, the mobile analytics firm Sensor Tower has taken a closer look at the AR game&#8217;s lifetime revenue, finding that it\u00a0has eclipsed $1.8 billion player spend in those 24 months.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the firm&#8217;s estimates, <em>Pokemon Go<\/em>\u2019s revenue works out to an average of over $2 million earned a day, with the United States and Japan leading the pack in terms of player spending.<\/p>\n<p>To date, players in the United States have spent $607 million on the free-to-play game, followed by players in Japan with $500 million spent. Breaking it down by mobile platform, Sensor Tower notes that 58 percent of that $1.8 billion came from Android platforms while the remaining 42 percent came from iOS devices.<\/p>\n<p>The full report detailing <em>Pokemon Go<\/em>\u2019s current standing can be found on Sensor Tower\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/sensortower.com\/blog\/pokemon-go-revenue-year-two\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/analyst-two-years-in-pokemon-go-crosses-1-8b-lifetime-revenue.png\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Pokemon Go has been out in the wild for two years, the mobile analytics firm Sensor Tower has taken a closer look at the AR game&#8217;s lifetime revenue, finding that it\u00a0has eclipsed $1.8 billion player spend in those 24 months. Based on the firm&#8217;s estimates, Pokemon Go\u2019s revenue works out to an average [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31477","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\/31477","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=31477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}