Pokémon GO Is One Of The Top Grossing Games Of This Year And The Past Decade

And yet they still couldn't figure out a way to get us all the Pokémon in their main game. :/
Yes, I went there.

@Kalmaro well, be fair, Pokémon go didn’t have that many when it launched... also, different developers.

@Kalmaro I mean, Pokemon Go doesn't have a National Dex

The fact that Pokemon Go is on these lists at all shows how big of an achievement it was given how late it was released in the decade. If the game had the same momentum it had when it launched I guarantee it would have ranked number 1 on most of those lists. But I don't think they could have done anything to keep everyone's attention. Like all fads it got overhyped for a few months, then everyone moved onto the next trend. Atleast a good chunk of the playerbase stayed.

@Alpha008 Different devs sure, but you can't say that the Pokémon company and gamefreak aren't benefitting from all that money in some way.

Though I don't want to derail things. Just still annoyed I guess.

I'm surprised that Angry Birds isn't on the list, given that it is the first certified blockbuster mobile game and launched at the beginning of the decade (December 2009 to be exact).

"I'll sell the formula and make myself zillions of bucks. That's enough money to buy my own country, or my own planet even." -James

Why do people spend so much money on Pokemon Go? If you've spent over a retail priced game then you've gone overboard and you don't own the game; it'll close eventually then you won't have anything to show for it.

Still baffles me why anyone spends money on the game. Not one dime from me and I played it for about 18 months daily with my son.

I bought an iPhone just for my kid to play this. Phone was faulty so returned it and - after seeing workmates running around all over the place looking for Squirtle - glad I never actually played it. I mean glad my kid never actually played it. Definitely for my kid. Yes.

Very surprising to see Angry Birds didn’t crack a single one of these lists. That game was just as much of a phenomenon as any of these games

It’s so surreal to see Subway Surfers on the top of that list. The dudes that developed it went to the same animation school as me, and as they were working on it I didn’t think much of it. “Mobile games? Who even plays those.” Yeaaaa...I’m way the hell out of touch.

I’m surprise for the download, no Mario kart, maybe it was a hit only on iOS. Apple gives the price to Mario kart this year.

I am really astounded that Pokemon GO has remained successful. I was certain it was just a fad. Although I do think it dropped off quite a bit from the beginning, because in the beginning it was such a big thing that even the people older than me at work that certainly never played Pokemon before were playing it. Now I hardly know anyone at all who plays it.