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title: "Pokemon GO – $4 Billion in lifetime revenue"
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description: "Pandemic or not Pokemon can not be stopped. As Pokemon GO has still managed to maintain its momentum and then some!"
author: "Patrick Dankers"
published at: "2020-11-06 18:44:05"
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Pokemon GO - $4 Billion in lifetime revenue | General News | NintendoReporters

 [![Pokemon GO – $4 Billion in lifetime revenue](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/pokemon-go-4-billion-in-lifetime-revenue.jpeg "Pokemon GO – $4 Billion in lifetime revenue")](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/pokemon-go-4-billion-in-lifetime-revenue.jpeg)Pandemic or not Pokemon can not be stopped. As Pokemon GO has still managed to maintain its momentum and then some!

**Sensor Tower** released a new report on the mobile title, with more insight into Pokemon Go’s performance. According to their analysis, Pokemon GO pulled in over $4 billion worldwide since its original debut in 2016. Of that amount, the game earned around $1 billion within 2020 … which is just outright crazy.

## [](#pokemon-go-sales-highlights)Pokemon Go Sales highlights

- Pokémon GO has seen its best calendar year yet
- The game has made $1 billion in the first 10 months of 2020 alone
    - This is 11% more than all of 2019’s earnings
    - This is also 30% more than the first 10 months of 2019’s earnings
    - In the first 10 months of 2020, Pokémon GO ranked as the No. 3 mobile game by global player spending
- Pokémon GO has accumulated close to $4.2 billion in player spending globally to date
    - The United States ranked No. 1 with $1.5 billion in revenue, or 36.3% of total spending
    - Japan ranked No. 2 with $1.3 billion in revenue, or 31.3%
    - Germany ranked No. 3 with $238.6 million in revenue, or 5.7%
    - Google Play accounted for most of the title’s revenue, generating more than $2.2 billion (or 53.4 percent of total spending)
    - The App Store accounted for $1.9 billion, or 46.6%
- Pokémon GO has generated nearly 600 million unique installs worldwide to date
    - The U.S. ranked No. 1 for downloads with 109 million installs, or 18.2% of the total
    - Brazil contributed 65.2 million installs, or close to 11% of the total
    - Mexico contributed 37.3 million installs, or 6.2% of the total
    - Google Play accounted for the majority of downloads, with close to 466 million installs (or 78% of total downloads)
    - The App Store accounts for approximately 132 million installs (or 22% of total downloads)

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