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In June 2017, Niantic announced a new "Pokémon Go Fest" event, which was held in Chicago's Grant Park on 22 July 2017 as the game's first official real-life event. [22] Tickets to the event, priced at US$20, were sold out within fifteen minutes of its release for sale, despite the details of the event not having been revealed then.
Pokémon Go live events earned $249 million in tourism revenue during 2019. [256] According to Sensor Tower in November 2020, Pokémon Go had accumulated nearly 600 million unique installs and generated almost $4.2 billion in revenue from in-game purchases via the iOS App Store and Google Play. Its largest market in terms of both installs and ...
The Pokémon World Championships is an invite-only esports event organized by Play! Pokémon.It is held annually in August and features games from the Pokémon series such as the Pokémon video games, Pokémon Trading Card Game, Pokémon Go, Pokémon Unite and Pokkén Tournament (until its 2022 edition).
Wolfe Glick (born December 6, 1995), [4] also known as Wolfey or WolfeyVGC, is an American competitive Pokémon player, streamer and YouTuber.He is the 2016 World Champion of the official Pokémon Video Game Championships (VGC) format, [5] and has won numerous other VGC competitions.
The company spun out of Google in October 2015 soon after Google's announcement of its restructuring as Alphabet Inc. [8] During the spinout, Niantic announced that Google, Nintendo, and The Pokémon Company would invest up to $30 million in Series-A funding, $20 million upfront and the remaining $10 million in financing conditioned upon the company achieving certain milestones, to support the ...
Satoshi Tajiri (Japanese: 田尻 智, Hepburn: Tajiri Satoshi, born August 28, 1965 [1]) is a Japanese video game designer and director who is the creator of the Pokémon franchise and the co-founder and president of video game developer Game Freak.
The Pokémon Company (株式会社ポケモン, Kabushiki Gaisha Pokemon, TPC) is a Japanese company responsible for brand management, production, publishing, marketing, and licensing of the Pokémon franchise, which consists of video games, a trading card game, anime television series, films, manga, home entertainment products, merchandise ...
A fact from Pokémon Go live events appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 30 April 2019 (check views).The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that so many people attended a 2017 Pokémon Go live event in Yokohama, Japan, that the city declined to host it the following year?