Pokémon Go: more than 65 million people still play a year after

Although Pokémon Go lost a lot of players in its first year of life, the flagship mobile game of summer 2016 still had more than 65 million monthly active users in April 2017.

No, Pokémon Go is not dead, far from it. The successful mobile game (more than 750 million downloads in total) of Niantic and Nintendo celebrated its first anniversary on Thursday, July 6th. And even if he lost a lot of players on the way, the title continues to gather virtually the equivalent of the French population every month!

In an interview with John Hanke, the press attaché accompanying the founder and CEO of Niantic told CNET.com colleagues that in April 2017, more than 65 million people were still playing Pokémon Go each month. That's more than the number of users of all Blizzard games (World of Warcarft, Overwatch, Diablo, StarCraft ...), which rises to 41 million. It is also more than the 40 million users of the Uber VTC service but less than League of Legends, which nevertheless counts 100 million active users per month.

Pokémon Go is therefore in top form whatever its detractors say, and Niantic too. John Hanke explains that his company is now profitable, and that it grew well thanks to Pokémon Go. Moreover, the teams working on this title have doubled in volume since its launch last summer.

The future of Niantic and Pokémon Go seems radiant in reality, especially as the developer still has cards to shoot: the company promises us since the release of the game the arrival of fighting between players and a system of exchanges, Without this happening. In this regard, John Hanke said, "These are things that we think about as next features. We have not yet done anything about it yet. "

In addition, the company will soon feature the legendary Pokémon and without doubts other creatures (a little later) as many of them are still missing the call. So expect a major game update this year.