Eight years after its release, Pokémon GO remains the highest-grossing mobile AR game in the world. The analytics service AppMagic estimates that total user spending in it exceeds $8 billion* with 656.6 million downloads.
The second place in terms of box office among AR games is now occupied by Dragon Quest Walk (ドラゴンクエストウォーク), the size of user spending in which is three times smaller. Following in the top five AR games are Monster Hunter Now, Jurassic World Alive and Let's Hunt Monsters (一起来捉妖).
Also, Pokémon GO is still Niantic's most successful game. In terms of revenue, no other project from the company has even come close to it yet. According to AppMagic, Niantic's second most revenue-generating game is Monster Hunter Now, with $164 million in user spending. Third place goes to Pikmin Bloom, with $44 million in user spending.
However, Pokémon GO's revenue growth is gradually declining. AppMagic data shows that players will leave $567 million dollars in Pokémon GO in 2023. That's a large amount, but it's 13% less than in 2022.
The $8 billion is net spending by users before Pokémon GO creators paid commissions to mobile storers and taxes. If you subtract those, the game's revenue is about $5.4 billion.
