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App Annie: Pokemon Go made $950 million in 2016
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The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
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About 10~20% after Apple/Google's, DeNa's and TPC's share is my guess.
I'm assuming there's some kind of weird shit about the actual process of making a gold statue that probably increases this number, but if it's pure gold it's around 70.
Pikachu's height is 16 inches - going off of artist reference sheets we can assume it's width and depth are about 9 inches. If we treat it as a cylinder to find its rough volume it has a volume of ~1017.88 cubic inches. A standard Good Delivery gold bar has a volume of around 38.5 inches, meaning it'll take 27 bars to make a Pikachu statue. A bar weighs 12.5kg, and the kilogram price of gold in USD is currently 39154.54, so 27*12.5*39154.54 = 13,214,647.13. Divide 950m by 13,214,647.13 and you get 71 statues.
GuitarGuruu
Member
That is insane. Obligatory "It's just a fad."
Maintenance
Member
Yes.
Suburban Thug
Member
How many people still play it compared to when it first released? I know one.
Just imagine how much it could have made if it was a great game.
If there was more to do and buying stuff like pokeballs wasn't such a waste, they could have got probably a good chunk of money for me.
But buying say 20 pokeballs to try and a catch a rare pokemon that popped up (Charmander) proceeding to waste all 20 and not catch the Charmander, I learned right quick never to do that shit ever again.
If there was more to do and buying stuff like pokeballs wasn't such a waste, they could have got probably a good chunk of money for me.
But buying say 20 pokeballs to try and a catch a rare pokemon that popped up (Charmander) proceeding to waste all 20 and not catch the Charmander, I learned right quick never to do that shit ever again.
Yup. But split five or six ways ways, with large pies all over.
A modern "real" Pokemon game is split two or three ways, depending on how you want to look at it.
Well, there goes that whole thing about whatever arguments were being made about whatever it was that made Pokemon GO a bad idea some long long months ago.
Whens Gacha Emblem.
A mainline game also stops making any money after some time. It seems like this has the potential to avoid that inconvenience.
It unveils tomorrow, and is supposed to come out before the end of March.
FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
fucking nuts
funnily enough I haven't spent a dime on IAP but have been playing Go regularly since launch
Pokémon IP is on another level. If they do a full fledged console Pokémon the Switch is a guaranteed success
funnily enough I haven't spent a dime on IAP but have been playing Go regularly since launch
Pokémon IP is on another level. If they do a full fledged console Pokémon the Switch is a guaranteed success
ive been saying this for 10 years haven't i
It was absolute madness. My gf and I would drive around and capture gyms. We would lose every single one within 30 minutes. I doubt it'll reach those levels again.
Well, sure. But then they release another one and it produces another huge sales figure.
ohdearohdear
Banned
its fascinating how shitty games make so much on mobile
ohdearohdear
Banned
and at a fraction of the quality, the mobile market is truly an inspiration
Well, sure. But then they release another one and it produces another huge sales figure.
That and due to the splits it will take half a decade or more to make Nintendo the money a mainline game makes. That is not to knock it as extra money is extra money but it clearly shows why Nintendo wants to make their Mobile games companion games. Make a few hundred million here while also making hundreds of millions off main games is their end goal.
The battle simulator series is dead and isn't coming back.
Well, sure. But then they release another one and it produces another huge sales figure.
True. There isn't a reason not to continue the shift towards annual releases.
It would be a great idea for the quicker, shallower mobile experience like Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Links.. It could also be the first official tool for testing teams for competition, rather than people relying on Pokemon Showdown Live. There really shouldn't be a need for a thing like Pokemon Showdown Live by now.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Out of the almost 100,000s of mobile games very few mange to even break even let alone amass a staggering amount of in the hundreds of millions.
Gotcha - I misunderstood the chart. Thanks!
In related news, I feel like I've been level 25 for four of those months.
OfTheOverflow
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Pretty amazing, 'phenomenon' only begins to describe it. Everyone I knew was playing it, even completely unsuspecting people like friends parents and complete strangers would ask me about it.
Eurogamer reported in 2016 that GameFreak is working on bringing Pokemon to the Nintendo Switch: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-11-18-nintendo-switch-will-get-pokemon-sun-and-moon-version
hurricanes
Member
Almost one billion dollars for a game this barebone...
Wow.
Wow.
I completely agree. I've played every Pokemon game and Pokemon Go. I've already decided to buy a Switch for Super Mario Odyssey and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and reading from Eurogamer that GameFreak is currently working on bringing a Pokemon game to the Switch was great news for me.
I believe Eurogamer because they had published articles about the Switch that eventually got confirmed such as the confirmed 720p 6.2 inch multi-touch capacitive touchscreen, Eurogamer got word of the Switch having a touch screen in 2016: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-10-27-nintendo-switch-has-a-6-2-multi-touch-screen
No way.
Fact is simple
Pokemon go has been a win win situation for everyone involved, Nintendo (direct and indirect revenue from the game, brand awareness, sun/moon preorder and debut record and general sales, 3ds sales spike, merchandising rise) primarly
I'd love to see what people are spending on!
A big chunk of that has to be kids right? (and by extension their parents)? My nephew loves this game and uses up his pokeballs pretty fast. I don't think they've bought any for him but I could see other parents just buying a bunch.
Also "lures" must be popular, or at least were for a while. And maybe backpack expanders? I was considering one of those but now I just throw out extra potions/revives. Other than those two I've never felt the need to buy anything. The pokeballs you get from leveling up start to dry up around level 15 or so (when it starts getting slower and slower) but before then I never ran out.
For me it just needed something else. It was really fun for the first couple months since there were always new pokes to catch, and lots of people were playing it. But I was super disappointed with the gym/battle stuff, so once I caught a lot of my local pokemon types I stopped playing. I still have the app and jump on from time to time but the craze has definitely died down for me.
A big chunk of that has to be kids right? (and by extension their parents)? My nephew loves this game and uses up his pokeballs pretty fast. I don't think they've bought any for him but I could see other parents just buying a bunch.
Also "lures" must be popular, or at least were for a while. And maybe backpack expanders? I was considering one of those but now I just throw out extra potions/revives. Other than those two I've never felt the need to buy anything. The pokeballs you get from leveling up start to dry up around level 15 or so (when it starts getting slower and slower) but before then I never ran out.
For me it just needed something else. It was really fun for the first couple months since there were always new pokes to catch, and lots of people were playing it. But I was super disappointed with the gym/battle stuff, so once I caught a lot of my local pokemon types I stopped playing. I still have the app and jump on from time to time but the craze has definitely died down for me.
FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
I've heard about that.
I don't mean an upped port. A game fully designed from the ground up for the Switch. One that would sweep people off their feet like Mario Odyssey did.
At least You can tell by the design of Sun/Moon, Poke Co. is almost ready for a full fledged
I think that a Pokemon Eklipse (so, the third versions of Sun/Moon) with up-rez assets (that have been already developed, it seems) is the maximum we can expect for Switch in 2017 of course.
A new full fledged Pokemon game will arrive later on the life cycle
AzureFlame
Member
You can even rip off the successful crappy games and you'll be successful.
UnemployedVillain
Member
Well it's winter in lots of the world and it's an outdoor based game. You're not going to see people in New England out in parks at 2am like in the summer
What people don't seem to grasp is that Pokémon GO could have been a lot more egregious with its F2P mechanics. Pay instead of walking around, pay for a chance to draw the Pokémon you want instead of RNG, pay for 100% perfect Pokeballs, implement some kind of ticket system in addition to the Pokécoins and so on. For Pokémon GO people don't really pay to win, as that would mean paying for XP doublers that don't do anything and there are no global rankings to compete for anyway. People pay to play and it STILL generates tons of money. That's the story here. But that's the strength of the Pokémon IP.