{"id":97653,"date":"2019-07-31T17:57:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T17:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/347753"},"modified":"2019-07-31T17:57:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T17:57:00","slug":"pokemon-go-surpasses-1-billion-downloads-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/07\/31\/pokemon-go-surpasses-1-billion-downloads-worldwide\/","title":{"rendered":"Pokemon Go surpasses 1 billion downloads worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Newsbrief:&nbsp;<\/strong>Niantic\u2019s mobile AR game <em>Pokemon Go<\/em> has officially been downloaded more than 1 billion times since its launch a little over three years ago, according to a Japanese trailer spotted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.serebii.net\/news\/2019\/31-July-2019.shtml\">Serebii<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At least half of those downloads came during <em>Pokemon Go<\/em>\u2019s first few months out in the wild. Niantic previously said that the game cleared <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/280821\/Pokemon_Go_surpasses_500M_downloads_as_it_heads_to_Apple_Watch.php\">500 million downloads<\/a> back in September 2016, just months after its mid-July launch.<\/p>\n<p>While the back half of its now 1 billion downloads took a bit longer to collect, more recent posts from Niantic suggest that the game still maintains a strong following. While Niantic has been quieter about numbers since, the developer did note last year that new features and in-game events helped it boost <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/326258\/Niantic_touts_35_percent_growth_in_active_players_for_Pokemon_Go.php\">active player counts by 35 percent <\/a>in just a few months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsbrief:&nbsp;Niantic\u2019s mobile AR game Pokemon Go has officially been downloaded more than 1 billion times since its launch a little over three years ago, according to a Japanese trailer spotted by Serebii. At least half of those downloads came during Pokemon Go\u2019s first few months out in the wild. Niantic previously said that the game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97653","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\/97653","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=97653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}