Pokémon TCG Pocket nets nearly a $100 million profit boost for developers
As we race toward the end of the financial year, reports have started popping up showing the good, the bad, and the ugly of game companies’ revenues. Recently, mobile game developer DeNA released its Q3 report, where revenue is a huge 15.5 billion yen - that’s $98 million. A fun number for you here - the company’s current profit is up a humongous 8126.8%. You can see the nitty gritty information here, and while there’s still Q4 to go, we’re sure that the numbers will only go up and up. Unsurprisingly, this is all down to Pokémon TCG Pocket’s wild success. Not that we expected a free Pokémon game to do badly, but it revitalized the trading card game and got many more new players on board. Having only a handful of Pokémon TCG Pocket decks available at launch didn’t stop anyone, as the app has over 60 million downloads already. Over at Pocket Tactics we’ve all tried it out and had our butts handed to us in the online battles. Continue reading Pokémon TCG Pocket nets nearly a $100 million profit boost for developers MORE FROM POCKET TACTICS: Pokémon TCG Pocket tier list, Pokémon TCG Pocket friend codes, Pokémon TCG Pocket decks
As we race toward the end of the financial year, reports have started popping up showing the good, the bad, and the ugly of game companies’ revenues. Recently, mobile game developer DeNA released its Q3 report, where revenue is a huge 15.5 billion yen - that’s $98 million. A fun number for you here - the company’s current profit is up a humongous 8126.8%.
You can see the nitty gritty information here, and while there’s still Q4 to go, we’re sure that the numbers will only go up and up. Unsurprisingly, this is all down to Pokémon TCG Pocket’s wild success. Not that we expected a free Pokémon game to do badly, but it revitalized the trading card game and got many more new players on board.
Having only a handful of Pokémon TCG Pocket decks available at launch didn’t stop anyone, as the app has over 60 million downloads already. Over at Pocket Tactics we’ve all tried it out and had our butts handed to us in the online battles.
MORE FROM POCKET TACTICS: Pokémon TCG Pocket tier list, Pokémon TCG Pocket friend codes, Pokémon TCG Pocket decks
