German Pokémon Go fans are among the top 3 most generous trainers

In the eyes of the players, Pokémon Go is sometimes awesome and sometimes awful. It’s a constant up and down that the passionate fans are all too familiar with. The popularity barometer is currently pointing steeply downwards again, and this has something to do with the fact that pandemic bonuses, which the makers of Pokémon Go 2020 and 2021 were loved for introducing, are now being gradually withdrawn again in 2022. It’s just not the nicest thing to give the players something first and then take it back from them – the developers of Niantic may also be learning this at the moment.

Nevertheless, on average, Pokémon Go players worldwide and a total of around one billion US dollars per year; that’s what it says in one Report from the data aggregator Sensortower. And the data that is collected there is quite interesting and sometimes unusual. Because: Would you have thought that German players are the most likely to spend money on Pokémon Go after those from the USA and Japan?

Who spends the most money on Pokemon Go?

Seen over the life of Niantic’s AR game, i.e. since the release in summer 2021, US players have spent the most money on Pokémon Go: 2.2 billion US dollars, which corresponds to 36.6 percent of the total revenue. The Japanese players, who contributed 32.6 percent of the total revenue, land in second place – and then the German Pokémon Go fans come in third place, who contributed 5.2 percent to the revenue cake. There’s still a big difference between “a few 30 percent” and “a little more than 5 percent,” but that’s still around 300 million. Cool!

And most of the downloads, where are they?

This is particularly interesting considering that neither Japan nor Germany ranks among the top 3 countries with the most downloads of the app. In the US there have been 123.2 million installs to date, which is 18.2 percent of total downloads. Then come Brazil and India. Often enough players from Latin and South America have met For example, complained that Niantic asked for prices that were too high for event tickets, measured against the monthly average wage of a worker.