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Pokémon GO is now the biggest mobile game in U.S. history

 

 

We finally have numbers to support what you might have already guessed: Pokémon GO is the biggest mobile game in U.S. history.

Shooting to the top of the app store on the day it was released, within 24 hours Pokémon GO beat out indie hit Slither.io and Supercell’s heavily promoted blockbuster Clash Royale to become the biggest game of 2016, as measured by daily active users.

Note: Candy Crush was widely reported to have 93 million total DAU at its peak, though this figure includes all countries and all devices. For the purposes of comparison we compared both apps on the basis of US smartphone audience.

And that’s not all. Within three days of its release, Pokémon GO attracted more users than Twitter, and rose to the top of the App Store revenue charts, earning millions of dollars a day for its publisher, Niantic.

As of yesterday, Pokémon GO attracted just under 21 million daily active users in the United States, surpassing Candy Crush saga’s rumored peak US smartphone audience of and making it the biggest mobile game in US history.

Pokémon Go left Twitter in the dust. Now it’s gunning for SnapChat (and Google Maps!)

So what’s next? At its current rate of growth, Pokémon GO is on track to pass Snapchat within a couple of days on Android.

Plus, as unbelievable as it sounds, Pokémon GO Android could surpass Google Maps itself as the largest user of Alphabet’s mapping data.

 

https://www.surveymonkey.com/business/intelligence/pokemon-go-biggest-mobile-game-ever/



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Where's Angry Birds?
I'd think that would be among the giants on these type of lists.



Damn, and it's only been out for one week!

EDIT: Honestly, after thinking about it, it's not that surprising. Especially considering I'm surprised if something doesn't mention Pokemon GO



I could've guessed as much, this game is insane.



Pokemon is far from being dead!!!!!!
Wonderful news!!!!



Pocky Lover Boy! 

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I think the biggest thing to note is that Candy Crush on android has over 500 million downloads while Pokemon Go has 10-50 million? So since that is the case, the biggest factor for Pokemon will be consistency and not downloads since downloads are essentially meaningless without a consistent user-base. So I hope their plan to keep players from moving on works cause if it does... $$$



                  

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Jranation said:
Pokemon is far from being dead!!!!!!
Wonderful news!!!!

It never was to being with... a series where even remakes sell 10m+ can't be dead.



Bet with Teeqoz for 2 weeks of avatar and sig control that Super Mario Odyssey would ship more than 7m on its first 2 months. The game shipped 9.07m, so I won

If they add frequent updates to the game like trading, battling, fix the servers, and slowly start adding all the Pokemon from Gens 2-6, I think it can.



Well Nintendo would be fools not to pursue mobile now.



damn didn't take long



Bet reminder: I bet with Tboned51 that Splatoon won't reach the 1 million shipped mark by the end of 2015. I win if he loses and I lose if I lost.