'Pokémon GO' Has Made $1.8 Billion As It Turns Two Years Old

referring to "People still play that game?"It's the first comment on any Pokémon GO story I write, to which the answer is yes. Sensor Tower has done a two year retrospective on the game to estimate that it's pulled in $1.8 billion in revenue since its launch on July 6, 2016. For comparison's sake, $1.8 billion is more than every movie ever released has made outside of Titanic, Avatar, The Force Awakens and Infinity War. All in all, Pokémon GO is still making $2 million a day, so yes, people still play this game. A Chinese launch is still coming down the line, opening the game up to a billion plus microtransaction-friendly playersAnd that's just what we know about.


Celebi Is Live In 'Pokémon GO' Now, Global Release Coming Soon

Pokémon GO Fest is entering its second day in Chicago, and while I'm not there this year, it looks like a much better time than last year. Like last year, attendees are getting a crack at a special prize as well: Gen 2 mythic Pokémon Celebi is available in the park right now, with a global release following after. People started catching Celebi after what seemed like a pretty brief and park-specific special research questline yesterday. The exclusivity won't last all that long, however: Celebi will be seeing a global release at some point, and likely soon. We'll let you know what the Celebi questline is as soon as it goes live.

Celebi Is Live In 'Pokémon GO' Now, Global Release Coming Soon

'Pokémon GO' Community Day: How To Get A Squirtle With Sunglasses

as informed in Pokémon GO community day comes a little bit early this month. Sunglasses Squirtle will be made available through field research, so getting it is a little more complicated than just wandering around until you encounter a shiny. When community day starts, you'll want to spin photo discs to get new research tasks. Fans of the Pokémon anime will know the sunglasses from Squirtle's introduction in the original, Kanto based series from way back in 1997. The real prize here, one assumes, will be a shiny sunglasses Squirtle.

'Pokémon GO' Is More Popular Than It's Been At Any Point Since Launch In 2016

Analytics firm Superdata says that more people played Pokémon GO this may than at any point since the game's launch in July 2016. If you're thinking this bump was due to the new addition of trading and friends into Pokémon GO, that isn't the case. As such, I have to believe that June is going to be even higher than May was, setting new "since launch" records for the game. The strangest thing is that I can't point to one specific thing about why this boost would have happened in May. Every other aspect of Pokémon GO has improved in the last two years, but battling remains a pressing issue.

'Pokémon GO' Is More Popular Than It's Been At Any Point Since Launch In 2016

It's No Mystery Why 'Pokémon GO' Is Doing So Well Right Now



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