Pokémon Go developer dismisses "incorrect" report that claimed revenue down to lowest since 2018

1 year ago

UPDATE 11/5/23: App store analytics firm AppMagic has now responded to Niantic's claim its report on Pokémon Go revenue was "incorrect".

"Surely, there's an inevitable inaccuracy in our estimates as in any other service of the same type as ours. For such large apps like Pokemon Go monthly discrepancy is usually around +/- five percent," an AppMagic spokesperson told Eurogamer.

"What we do to estimate revenue is analyse positions of apps in the platforms' top grossing apps rankings. And since it's publicly available data, anyone can see that the current position of Pokémon Go (on average across countries, weighted on their impact) in March-April 2023 was at the lowest since February 2018.

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