In two years, Pokémon Go has brought in nearly $ 2 billion

Pokémon Go is already celebrating its two years. The opportunity to take stock of the figures of Niantic's augmented reality game, and to learn that, in total, more than 1.8 billion dollars have been spent by players around the world.

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The mobile game Pokémon Go is celebrating its two years. For people who would have lived in a cave and would not know the game: it is developed by Niantic studio in partnership with The Pokémon Company and its principle is to collect and breed caught Pokémon while roaming for real. Indeed, taking advantage of augmented reality and geolocation, Pokémon Go offers to hunt creatures by pointing the photo sensor of its phone all around.

After an explosive launch and a global craze, this game forgotten by many curious from the first hour is not yet dead, quite the contrary. Currently, Pokémon Go accounts for more than 800 million downloads worth some $ 2 million each day. After spending a billion dollars in revenue in January 2017, this free game with call options in app has an estimated overall revenue of $ 1.8 billion from Sensor Tower mobile applications.

Always a record game

Pokémon Go does not make as much talk, but keeps a place in the top applications that have generated the most revenue. He settled for example in 5th place in a recent SuperData ranking, devoting the games that generated the most revenue in a month, with more than 200 million dollars raked in August 2016. Pokémon Go also succeeded to hold 74 days at the top of the App Store. It remains to be seen if the next game of Niantic actually increased will do as well. It will be Harry Potter: Wizards Unite .