Despite much of the hype wearing off, Pokemon GO is still one of the most successful mobile games of all time. The game has become a cultural phenomenon, not to mention a money-maker for Niantic Labs, The Pokemon Company, and Nintendo. But just how many downloads has Pokemon GO achieved? Over 500 million across Android and iOS, according to a press release from earlier today.

500 million is a bit difficult to wrap your brain around, so let's try to compare it with other well-known mobile games. Pokemon GO has yet to beat out the Angry Birds franchise, with the original game being downloaded over 3 billion times as of July 2015. Tetris comes close, ranking at 425 million downloads on mobile (not counting free-to-play adaptions) as of April 2014. The next closest is Minecraft: Pocket Edition, with over 30 million downloads as of June 2015.

But context is almost more important than the numbers. All of those games have been around for years, with a slow build-up of users. Pokemon GO was only released in July, and the success it has managed to achieve in that short time is nothing short of incredible.

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