{"id":610469,"date":"2025-12-03T23:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T23:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/610469\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T23:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T23:14:10","slug":"pikmin-bloom-has-topped-100-million-in-lifetime-player-spend-since-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/610469\/","title":{"rendered":"Pikmin Bloom has topped $100 million in lifetime player spend since launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pikmin Bloom has topped $100 million in lifetime player spend since it launched four years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The milestone \u2013 aggregated by combining sales on both the App Store and Google Play \u2013 comes via  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pocketgamer.biz\/pikmin-bloom-hits-100m-after-four-years-as-2025-becomes-its-best-year-yet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PocketGamer<\/a> and data from <a href=\"https:\/\/appmagic.rocks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AppMagic<\/a>, which reports the mobile augmented reality game generated $8.4 million in its first year, which rocketed by 148% in 2023 to $20.9 million.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, this ballooned again to $33.4 million, seemingly spurred by the release of Pikmin 4 on Nintendo Switch in 2023, which saw monthly installs of the mobile game double.<\/p>\n<p>2025, however, has been the game&#8217;s strongest year to date, generating another $34.8 million before the year&#8217;s end.<\/p>\n<p>Savvy Games Group subsidiary Scopely revealed it officially closed its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/scopely-acquires-pokemon-go-developer-niantic-in-deal-worth-35bn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$3.5 billion acquisition of Niantic&#8217;s game business<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/scopely-officially-closes-35-billion-acquisition-of-niantics-games-business\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">earlier this year<\/a>, acquiring leading mobile games Pok\u00e9mon Go, Pikmin Bloom, and Monster Hunter Now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pikmin Bloom has topped $100 million in lifetime player spend since it launched four years ago. The milestone&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3162],"tags":[53,16,15,3243,3244],"class_list":{"0":"post-610469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-virtual-reality","8":"tag-technology","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-virtual-reality","12":"tag-vr"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115658179387879005","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}