Pikachu needed a quick rest at a PokéCenter, and now he’s already returned to dominating his mobile gaming competition.
Pokémon Go is once again the top-grossing iPhone game in the United States, according to data from Sensor Tower and App Annie. The Google Maps-powered augmented reality experience has players tracking down digital monsters along the streets and walking paths in the real world. After debuting in July, the game immediately destroyed records for the fastest app to 500 million installs and $500 million dollars. After falling to as low as No. 4 on the highest-grossing iPhone games in the U.S. on September 29, Pokémon Go has climbed back over head-to-head strategy battler Clash Royale and city-building combat apps Game of War and Mobile Strike to reclaim the No. 1 spot. A resurgence like this suggests that the game has settled into a plateau alongside those other lucrative properties in the $36.6 billion mobile gaming industry. Niantic has not release any major updates, so it’s difficult to point to any reason why the game is floating back to the top other than the natural ebb and flow of the player spending.
