Estimated app-store player spending on Pokémon GO in 2018 and 2019, years the vendor did not print

What this is

Estimated app-store player spending on Pokémon GO in 2018 and 2019, years the vendor did not print: about $854–902m and $919–971m.

How it’s built

1. Take AppMagic’s lifetime total to July 2024 (about $7.9bn) and subtract every year it printed; what is left is 2018 plus 2019.
2. Split the remainder in proportion to a separate table of the vendor’s after-fee figures.
3. Cross-check by grossing up that after-fee table: $888–901m and $955–969m.

What we assumed

• The “$7.9bn” lifetime figure lies between $7.85bn and $7.95bn.That is the range a rounded $7.9bn allows.
• The after-fee table, from Statista citing AppMagic, uses the same basis as the printed gross years.Both routes overlap closely, which supports this.

Sanity check

Sensor Tower, another vendor, reads the same years 4–12% lower; the two vendors are never mixed in one series.

Where it comes from

Our calculation from other figures in the trainer’s notes:

• EstimateAppmagic net to gross ratio by vintage, 2023, 2024, lifetime

Where it’s used

• StoryPokémon GO & mobile
• Chart · Pokémon GO & mobileTen years on, Pokémon GO still takes about $730 million a year through the app stores
• ProfilePokémon GO

Related figures

Built from this one

• EstimateGo app store gross by TPC fiscal year appmagic basis, TPC year to February 2018-year to February 2027 (Mar-Feb)