{"id":54337,"date":"2018-10-12T01:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T01:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/10\/niantics_pokemon_go_catches_a_cool_usd84_8_million_in_the_month_of_september"},"modified":"2018-10-12T01:15:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T01:15:00","slug":"niantics-pokemon-go-catches-a-cool-84-8-million-in-the-month-of-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/10\/12\/niantics-pokemon-go-catches-a-cool-84-8-million-in-the-month-of-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Niantic&#8217;s Pok\u00e9mon GO Catches A Cool $84.8 Million In The Month Of September"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/899882c003a60\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/899882c003a60\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Pokemon RICH\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/899882c003a60\/pokemon-rich.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/899882c003a60\/pokemon-rich.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Pokemon RICH\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/mobile\/pokemon_go\">Pok\u00e9mon GO<\/a><\/strong> appears to be an unstoppable force, with Sensor Tower reporting Niantic&#8217;s mobile hit just had its best month since November 2017. The title grossed close to $85 million ($84.8 million, to be exact) during the month of September. This is a 15 percent month-over-month increase and compared to last September it&#8217;s an 89 percent improvement. As a result of this, it&#8217;s the fourth best app in terms of revenue.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of downloads, the game had its strongest month of 2018 so far &#8211; reaching 8.86 million additional installs. Compared to last September, this is reportedly a 100 percent year-over-year increase. Taking into account September&#8217;s sales figures, this means Pok\u00e9mon GO has had its highest earnings for the third quarter since its launch year.<\/p>\n<p>As we <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/09\/pokemon_go_players_have_apparently_spent_usd2_billion_to_catch_em_all\">reported<\/a> towards the end of last month, GO players have now spent a whopping $2 billion dollars on the game (via in-app purchases) since it was originally released in July 2016.<\/p>\n<p><em>Did you play or spend money on Pok\u00e9mon GO during the month of September? Tell us below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pok\u00e9mon GO appears to be an unstoppable force, with Sensor Tower reporting Niantic&#8217;s mobile hit just had its best month since November 2017. The title grossed close to $85 million ($84.8 million, to be exact) during the month of September. This is a 15 percent month-over-month increase and compared to last September it&#8217;s an 89 [&hellip;]<\/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-54337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54337","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=54337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}