Pokémon Go hit $600 million in revenue in 90 days.
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Pokémon Go is the fastest mobile game to hit $600 million in revenues

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Pokémon Go was the fastest mobile game to hit $600 million in revenues, according to market researcher App Annie.

Even if its growth is slowing down, the game where you collect cute Pokémon creatures is the most successful mobile game in history. In its third-quarter market index, App Annie found that Niantic Labs generated more than $600 million in revenue from July through the end of September. And that set the record in terms of the time it took for a mobile game to reach that amount.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.