The report says Pokemon Go revenue has fallen, Niantic says it hasn’t

Pokemon Go is in a new controversy, this time about whether is revenues are declining. Use Data from the market research tool AppMagic, Mobilegamer.biz reported The Pokemon GoApril’s revenue fell to $34.7 million, which would be the game’s lowest total monthly revenue since February 2018. However, developer Niantic says that number is wrong. In fact, it says revenue has increased.

“We generally do not comment on third party estimates of our earnings as they are often incorrect, which is the case here,” said a Niantic spokesperson told Eurogamer

. “Our sales so far in 2023 are above those of the previous year.”

“We don’t focus on month by monthonth trends because they fluctuate based on big live events,” the spokesperson added.

AppMagic data took sales to a peak of $58 million in February before falling to $42.8 million in March.

Remarkably, that’s where the supposed dip comes from Pokemon Go

reverts changes it made in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The game, which is built around running around and visiting gyms and PokéStop hotspots, failed to meet 2020 quarantine requirements. Niantic has claimed the changes it made in response were made, which include restricting walking requirements and allowing players to join raids remotely, were always intended to be temporary. Nonetheless, the new ways to play were popular, especially among gamers disabled players and those living in more rural areas where the game was getting harder and harder to keep up.

That should also be noted Pokemon Go increased the price of certain Items such as remote raid passes that could lead to this an increase in sales without increasing the number purchased.

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But in response to the controversial figure, Niantic again doubled down on its changes, saying Eurogamer“This year’s changes have already increased personal raiding, and we look forward to introducing exciting new features in the coming months.”

Just last month, Niantic posted about how much people love to get outside in a quickly deleted tweet. The post didn’t go over well with the community.