Pokemon Go Returns to Top Spot on App Store Over Holidays
While the new AR+ feature got a lot of publicity, Pokemon Go released it at the same time as their new holiday event, which added 20 new Pokemon to the game and saw a massive rise in Pokemon spawns around the world.
Pokemon Go also got a boost in the Google Play app store, where it rose to the #2 spot thanks to the holiday event.
Pokemon Go has briefly made appearances on the Apple App Store "Top Grossing" list throughout 2017, although not at the same rate as it did in 2016, where it remained on top for months. Typically, Pokemon Go gets a boost when it either offers discounted sales in its in-game app store or during major events that bring back lapsed players to the game.
In a recent interview with FT.com, John Hanke noted that Pokemon Go revenue was still strong, but hadn't reached its 2016 heights. "Revenues [in 2017] were not as high as they were in 2016 for the year but they were very strong," Hanke said. Later in the interview, he compared Pokemon Go's 2017 performance as "obtaining a stable orbit" after the rocket launch that was 2016.
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Source: http://comicbook.com/gaming/2018/01/06/pokemon-go-top-app-holiday-2017/
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TomPosted:
wonder why...? i remember this game being everything, people died over this game by getting hit by cars and stuff for its popularity, cant believe its not as popular.
ZydrinPosted:
Never really got into this game. Was so boring. Who actually wants to walk around and catch Pokmon? I'd rather play through a story mode.
DragonPosted:
I can proudly say I was one of the people who did not play Pokemon: GO. I cannot believe it is still doing well.
SeamPosted:
Plenty of 'GO' games in the works it seems. As much as I thoroughly loved this game at first it got very bad very quick due to the fact youre literally only throwing balls at them.
FamousPosted:
Silky Played it for like a week then got bored but I also heard there's a Harry Potter GO coming out?
I heard the same thing with Mario go, lmfao.
SilkyPosted:
Played it for like a week then got bored but I also heard there's a Harry Potter GO coming out?
kimPosted:
This isn't even an awful phone game though.. there's so much worse I get it's old but it's still 100x better than most the ad filled junk found on the app stores
AlphabetsPosted:
Why the hate with this game? I loved this when it first came out, never became addicted but definitely put enough time into it to say I enjoyed the app. It was different, fun and a creative way to walk around places you may not have been before or hang with friends. Cool to see it still keeping people entertained with the VR.
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