"For instance on launch day in America and Asia I would have expected insane numbers (many hundreds of million)."
Given no app had ever done this in history over the first few weeks, yet alone on launch day with no marketing, I doubt it.
Given no app had ever done this in history over the first few weeks, yet alone on launch day with no marketing, I doubt it.
But in all seriousness this is Pokemon; they sold over 3 million copies of a remake of a game on a niche portable console in just 3 days; elevating its brand to an open platform for FREE that can be downloaded and installed on theoretically, what, a billion or more devices? Seems incredibly doable for Pokemon. Few other brands could do the same. Even Mario wouldn't be able to come close to competing with Pokemon's brand power.
I would be very interested in the real numbers :)
If this doesn't clearly show how crazy this growth was compared to what anyone was expecting, I'm not sure we're operating in the same plane.