It's been just over a week since the new cloud-based service Pokémon Home was launched on the Nintendo Switch and mobile devices, so how is it holding up? Sensor Tower Store Intelligence data reveals the mobile version of the app has already been installed a whopping 1.3 million times.
The United States recorded the highest amount of installs, totalling 444,000. Japan was in second place with 299,000 installs, and the UK was in third with 74,000 installs. Below is the full first-week rundown:
In terms of first-week revenue, Pokémon Home on mobile is estimated to have banked $1.8 million thanks to its premium plan subscription service (which allows users to sign up for 30 days, 90 days or an entire year).
According to Sensor Tower, this also represents "94.7 percent" of The Pokémon Company's mobile revenue since 12th February. Although, this excludes revenue made by Niantic's augmented reality game, Pokémon GO. The biggest spenders were located in the United States, Japan, and the UK.
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[source sensortower.com]
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Make scummy business, bank big bucks
That's not shocking, they are holding your Pokémon for ransom.
I quite like the service. But use the trade feature at your own risk, a lot of people have received hacked Pokemon in trades that glitches the system with "Error 500 code 9013" because their non-hacked copy of the game doesn't know what to do with the hacked data. In Home, this locks you out of the app, in Sw/Sh it apparently glitches your Y com and locks you out of online features.
I first heard about the glitch from aDrive on Twitch and it has since been revealed to affect Home too, I was hit on Home because I thought it was only in Sw/Sh at first.
It's unclear if it's malicious or just incompetent hacking but I honestly think the former because people have used 3rd party tools to generate Pokemon without issue for months now, and this glitch issue only started a couple weeks ago. So long as the hacked mons were completely possible to obtain through normal means, they passed the checks and worked fine.
I did get my Home account unlocked and fixed after I filled out a support ticket with Pokemon's website. But I am no longer willing to use Surprise Trade in Sw/Sh or the Wonder Box in Home. I've read that other people, who had their account fixed as well, resumed trading and got the error from the hacked mons, again.
Personally, I am not sure how GF can fight this since it appears to come only from modded consoles. I think Nintendo needs better checks to lock out modified Switch consoles from the online service. Everything I have read about it suggests the hacked Pokemon can only come from copies of the game running on hacked/modified Nintendo Switches.
I'm always torn on hacking. I believe we should be able to use something we buy however we want. But this sort of thing ruins other people's experiences and I utterly despise it.
It’s amazing how much money databases can make when they have a layer of nostalgia and cartoons on top.
Hahahahahahahahahaha
Man, people really will buy anything with the word Pokemon in the title, no matter how terrible
There will be alot of butt hurt people on this post lol
Interested to know how many of the 1.3 million people who downloaded Home actually paid money for a subscription.
If all of the $1.8 million of subscription revenue came from the annual subscription, that amounts to ~113,000 paid subscribers, which is a decent amount though far, far, far from the majority of Pokemon players.
Hey I got 3 months using gold coins from games I hadn't collected them on yet. No skin off my Bagon.
That said, after transferring over my living dex and using it with Sw/sh and let’s go, I am in for the year after my three months are up. I think it’s great.
@westman98 The service is really only for, not only long time fans, but those who still have and want to bring forward their old collection. Even some long time and extremely hard core fans I know don't really care much about that. There's a sizable number of players that prefer to start over from scratch each game too.
@itslukec me too... first I thought it was crap... but after trying it out I’ll be paying the whole year. It has many amazing options.
Though I miss the pixel icons for each Pokémon
I'm wary of possible implications based on some features Home has that people are overlooking. Isn't it weird we have a Judge function for Home? I'd say wait for now for premium until one hears confirmation of being able to get EVERYONE in SwSh and the serious glitches are dealt with.
That ain’t a lot of cash at all. How many people didn’t drop $60 on the newest Pokémon game because of this pay wall?
To put in perspective- they could’ve made that money by selling 30,000 more copies, which is less than what was sold in Japan... last week. And I’d say more than 30,000 people worldwide passed on this game because of the ongoing nickle and dime business practices.
Kinda feel like Nintendo played themselves here
@Darkyoshi98 there already is. 😀
@Heavyarms55 I'm one of the transfer-fans, the games force me to start over from scratch anyway (With the whole "Pokemon won't listen until you have all badges"-thing), but i got attached to some of those pokemon.
It's probably silly, but that's how it works for me, i'm happy to see those familiar pokemon i caught so long ago progress through the hardware generations.
When I noticed I could use my my mobile credit to purchase the sub I was very tempted but then I would be going against what I said about the price being too high. I need to remember to check though my white, x and moon copies to transfer over everything to bank atleast.
Then do the transfers of diamond, platinum and heartgold to white cause if I were to play those games again it would be a restart.
@MysticX I'm a fan of it too. My collection goes back 17 years. I've got event Pokemon that I could never replace and there's something just fun about having Pokemon that have been on every game since the GBA era.
@Heavyarms55 This isn't an argument against you or anyone else personally. But I never understood that whole thing about starting over from scratch as every game has essentially forced you to do so anyways. I can't remember a Pokémon game (before Bank was a thing) that
1) Let you transfer or trade over your Pokémon before you had to complete a certain objective or defeat the Elite Four
2) Or if you were to even gain access to your old Pokémon, allow you to use higher level Pokémon without certain Gym Badges
Unless by starting from scratch, we are talking about completely abandoning your previous Pokémon. Which I guess I can see, from some point of view, the allure and fun in that for some.
@UmbreonsPapa For a lot of people starting from scratch is so much more than the simple story. We're talking about things like finishing the Pokedex, breeding competitive Pokemon and hunting for shinys.
Also consider that for a lot of people they don't buy the game right at launch, and once they do get it, access to older Pokemon is very easy. All it takes is a friend who has access or owning another copy of the game. No small number of people would start a new game with a whole team of their favorite Pokemon already. It's just different ways to enjoy the game and there really is no wrong way to play.
Well, I consider any hacking of the game that affects other players negatively to be wrong, but aside from that, no wrong way.
When I was a kid I often played through Gold version with several starter Pokemon which I traded over from my other game.
Paid for it and, as far as I could tell at the time, lost all my Pokémon from Bank. It’s since been fixed but not a great week to be sure.
@Heavyarms55 I wasn't suggesting there was a wrong way to play. Just as some don't care for competitive play or completing the Pokedex, some do. And as you said, no one way to play is wrong or right.
My point was the argument during the whole Dex brewhaha that people were looking complaining or wanting to start a new game with their old Pokémon when the game was specifically set up in a way that made that hard or impossible. This forcing you to start from scratch anyways. My point wasn't to suggest whether it was wrong or right.
Pay even more for a new service that does less than the previous one, while if you still want to use said old one you'll need to pay of it still after the free trial. Greed is MASSIVELY strong.
@Heavyarms55 I have seen these hacked Pokemon causing major problems too. It looks like it hasn't been made public enough to warn potential traders. If it goes on too long there is a chance it could make the trade feature useless and it is making the people who receive them suffer more than the ones distributing them.
@MysticX It was actually quite touching when they added that feature in ORAS where you could get some sort of picture or certificate of everlasting friendship if you'd transferred a Pokémon all the way from the original RSE. It's just a couple of perfectly replaceable bytes, but those bytes are really good at making you care. I even cloned it using the box glitch in Emerald, but I still kept transferring it along up until USUM. People who intentionally don't move over their old Pokémon to the newest game are to me like the maniacs who, whenever they move to a new place, don't take any of their old furniture or even their cutlery along, and start completely anew.
@Zenszulu The good thing is, filling out a support ticket does seem to work, the bad thing is, it doesn't seem like GF or Nintendo have been able to prevent the problem at the source. And to be honest, I'm not sure how they could. The whole thing is that people are using modified Switches to do this, which have already bypassed Nintendo's security.
@UmbreonsPapa Well I don't want to get back into that conversation. Everyone knows the National Dex issue has been... discussed... relentlessly already.
@Heavyarms55 it's good they fix it quickly but sadly it doesn't prevent it from happening multiple times to the same people. The only way I can see them sorting it for now is to remove certain security checks to allow the hacks. Which isn't great but would save them more time than having to constantly unlock accounts. I think the biggest problem with Pokemon since online trading started in Gen 4 is just how near impossible it is to stop hacks from making there way around. Not only because of Nintendo's online structure but because how people pretty much rip the games code to pieces and know it so well from day one.
@nintendoknife I had that certificate too, for a Gardevoir i caught in the original Pokemon Ruby, it was a cool addition, i also make it a point to run all my favourites through every elite 4, got to rack up those ribbons!
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