Pokémon GO Fest 2021 Incredible Statistics

On July 17 and 18, 2021, a large-scale Pokémon GO Fest took place. It has been held annually for the past five years. Players from all over the world can take part in it, in person or virtually. To give you an idea of ​​the scale of this fantastic event, here are some statistics.

Sensor Tower estimates that the festival raised about $21 million in two days. So, on July 17th, there was $11 million, and the next day brought about $9.8 million more. This indicator is about 3.5 times higher than on the average weekend. In total, the participants managed to catch 1.5 million funny monsters and set 900 million landmarks called PokéStops.

To achieve such an incredible result, players had to go over 125 million kilometers and make about 23 million raids. By the way, this year, the game designer Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of many projects for Nintendo (like Mario and The Legend of Zelda), took part in this massive race. By his own admission, he is a huge Pokémon GO fan.

If we talk about more global statistics, then, according to experts, digital store buyers spent more than $731 on Pokémon GO this year alone. Over the past five years, developers have earned about $5 billion.