Pokémon Go reaches one billion downloads
Whoever thought at the time that Pokémon Go was going to be a one-off phenomenon that would end up being forgotten, was wrong. The popular Niantic title is stronger than ever, and has just surpassed the barrier of one billion downloads worldwide. This was communicated by the developer itself through a video, in which, by way of summary, it shows us what the day-to-day life of any player is like,in this case of Japan, where children and not so children share the same hobby.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2cgOQ7Kow4&feature=youtu.be
The news of 1 billion downloads does not mean there are 1 billion players worldwide. Although from Niantic they have not commented on anything, it is normal that this figure is related to the downloads achieved in the Google Play Store and App Store. Therefore, the billion would not measure the number of active users, but the downloads made per device. In any case, the success of Pokémon Go is indisputable. According to data from Sensor Tower, is the application that has obtained the second highest income in its first three years of life: 2,400 million euros in exchange worldwide for be exact. It is only surpassed by "Clash of Clans" with 2,850 million euros at the current exchange rate.
This augmented reality video game based on the Pokémon universe was released on July 6, 2016, so it has been on the market for more than 3 years. The truth is that it was not an original idea.A couple of years earlier, on April's Fools Day 2014, April Fool's Day here, Google uploaded a video named Pokémon Challenge in which He was talking about a new and hypothetical game, in which through its different maps, users could locate different species of Pokémon. What seemed like a dream at the time ended up becoming a reality some time later.
From that July 6, 2016, the real phenomenon of Pokémon Go began to unleash. The beginning was a boom. The streets were filled with people trying to catch Pokémon, even saturating Niantic's servers. In fact, during the first hours of operation, hundreds of users could not even download the application due to all the collapse. This caused that one day after its launch, the game was positioned in the first position of the most downloaded apps on iTunes. Pokémon Go fever reached such a point Niantic shares soared, rising in value by about 15.000 million euros.
However, this initial furor began to abate as the months went by. But, although some considered the game sunk, Niantic has managed to stay on its feet, and, without going any further, today it celebrates a new milestone: one billion downloads. And all this with new projects on the way and new forays. In the last one, you can get the legendary Pokémon Rayquaza until September 2. Note that Legendary Pokémon have a chance to spawn in raids of 1 for every 125 raids. However, in this event the chance to get a Rayquaza Shiny will be 1 in 19.
To increase the chances of getting yours, keep these four things in mind.
- Catch many normal Pokémon.
- Hatch as many eggs as you can.
- Get up close to legendary pokémon raids.
- Get closer to non-legendary Pokémon raids.
