Gen 2 brought back some straying players for sure, but overall the interest in Pokémon GO has faded too radically to not admit something is off.Īre you among the 80% of players who have stopped hunting for Pokémon on your smartphone? Would you jump back in with more PvP features? Let us know in the comments. players from July 2016 to December 2016, so we don’t have any exact numbers for 2017 yet. It’s important to note comScore’s data only represents U.S. Also, there’s still no PvP battles or trading–two huge features many players thought should be essential to a Pokémon app game. Perhaps this is due to Niantic’s withholding of new features. Gen 2 didn’t release until 9 months after the game’s launch, and players still can’t catch those Legendary Pokémon. It was released in July 2016 for iOS and Android devices. Pokémon GO began as a fun augmented reality game with lots of potential, but it couldn’t sustain the interest of players over time. Pokémon GO is officially the biggest mobile game in the United States, with 21 million active daily users.1 According to Wikipedia it is a free-to-play location-based augmented reality mobile game developed by Niantic and published by The Pokémon Company. That’s still a lot of users, but it’s only a fraction of where the game started. And that figure was cut in half to 10 million by September. By the end of 2016, Pokémon GO was sustaining around 5 million daily players. That’s an incredible amount, but it was only downhill from there.īy the end of the game’s first month on the market, active players dropped to 20 million. The comScore graph, pictured below, shows that Pokémon GO reached its highest user count at 28.5 million United States players on July 13th, 2016, which was a week after the app launched. Now, according to a new report by comScore (as reported by Nintendo Life), Pokémon GO has lost 4 out of 5 players who started playing the game at launch. Active usage of the augmented reality app has increased 35 since May, developer Niantic revealed in a blog post on Tuesday. You couldn’t turn a corner without seeing someone searching for a Bulbasaur or hanging around a PokéStop. Tens of millions of people continue to play Pokmon Go. Starting with basic usage, there are about 65 million monthly active users (MAU), and the app has made about 1.4 billion in revenue. The Pokémon-hunting app game used to have almost 30 million players. Business of Apps recently aggregated Pokemon Go usage data, which we’ve combined with a few other sources and narrative insights peppered below. The mobile game added new social features, friend links and gifting, that have given players more. The app game that once had millions of active users has since suffered a drastically dwindling player base, and there’s data to prove it. Niantic revealed today that Pokémon Go has had a 35 percent increase in active users since May. Niantic’s Pokémon GO exploded with popularity when it released on iOS and Android in July of 2016.
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