Pokémon statistics, trends and data
Overview
As of August 2021, the best performing media related franchise in the world is Pokemon, the franchise has generated a revenue of 105 billion U.S dollars.
Pokemon Red, Green & Blue is currently the 5th highest best-selling console game as of March 2022.
In 2021, Pokemon Unite was the 5th most searched video game with an average monthly volume of 1.5 million monthly searches.
As of 2021, Pokemon: Detective Pikachu created in 2019 is the second most popular video game movies through the box office, amassing a total of 432 million U.S dollars.
Console
The best selling console Pokemon video game worldwide as of March 2022 was Red/Blue/Green on the Nintendo Gameboy.
Pokemon Legends: Arceus since their launch in May 2022 has proven to be successful with an accumulative unit count of near 20 million units sold worldwide as of May 2022
Pokemon X/Y and Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire both took up the third and fourth spot on Nintendo 3DS’ highest selling game title as of March 2022.
According to the Nintendo DS console, Pokemon Diamond / Pearl was also the 5th highest recorded game financially for the Nintendo during the Nintendo DS era
With 24.2 million units sold worldwide, Pokemon Sword and Shield is Nintendo’s 5th most highest grossing Nintendo Switch video game as of May 2022, according to Statista.
Mobile gaming
Pokemon: GO released back in July 2016 peaked as the third most highest grossed mobile game within it’s first year with a total accumulative value of $1.1 billion U.S dollars.
Pokémon UNITE, a poki-style MOBA as of January 2022 has generated a total of 3.5 million downloads, this is down however from 10 million in it’s first month of release and has gradually slowed down.
Pokémon Home, a cloud service for switch and mobile to store Pokémon from different, compatible games peaked in Q4 2020 with a total of 4.6 million downloads worldwide. As of Q4 2021 when last recorded it was at 1.7 million downloads.
Pokémon UNITE as of 2021 has been the most popular mobile gaming app published by The Pokemon Company with 34.4 million combined downloads, second came Pokemon Quest with 9.1 million.
Pokémon Masters saw the highest amount of first year spending. At 75 million U.S dollars it surpassed Pokemon Duel which recorded at 14 million as of September 2021.
Pokémon GO
Pokémon: GO’s in app-purchase revenues surpassed 900m (904m) in 2021, this is down however compared to 2020 and 917m however a big trajectory since it’s launch in 2016 at 588m.
Japan continuously see themselves as the highest country when looking at DAU (daily active users) of Pokemon GO via iPhone when last recorded in February 2022.
As of Q4 2021, the application has generated 14.1 million downloads worldwide, the game has been on a download trajectory since it’s launch in Q3 2016.
Asia Pacific in 2021 recorded the highest generated revenue from Pokémon: GO with more than 418 million U.S dollars through in-app purchases. Americas were ranked second with 348.7 million U.S dollars.