It was in the summer of 2016. Thousands, millions of people rushed to the streets armed with their teléfonos inteligentes and portable batteries to snag all the digital creatures inside Pokemon GO. The summer of 2016 was like stepping back in time to the “digitized” 80s, with kids running around as if Charizard had appeared at a nearby park. However, the Pokemon GO fever as it came has gone. No more children in the slots with Poképaradas, or going out at night to throw Poké Balls. Now it seems so Everyone plays PUBG.
PUBG or PlayerUnknown’s Battleground is killing itWe’ve said it before. After its phenomenal success on PC and the rise of clones in mobile aplicación stores, Tencent decided to officially release the game on Google plus Play and the Aplicación Store. This has resulted in Fb, Twitter, and Instagram being filled with screenshots of people playing and winning games, and all YouTubers are uploading gameplays of the game. Got the iniciativa? It should be, because the same thing happened with Pokémon GO.
Given the collective hysteria sparked by the arrival of PUBG, it’s worth asking: Which game is more habitual? For this we use one of the most interesting Google plus tools: Google plus Trends. Thanks to this we perro analyze the search trends of Pokemon GO and PUBG and compare them in a timeline. This allows us to analyze what the game is most famous for. Let’s make a mess!
Pokemon GO vs PUBG, which is more habitual?
We searched for the terms “Pokémon GO”, “Pokémon GO” – without tilde -, “PUBG” and “PlayerUnknown’s BattleGround” around the world from 2015 to the day these lines are written. So must we all Search area that cánido be performed on both vídeo games and related terms. As you perro see in the graphic below, “Pokémon GO” – no tilde – is taking PUBG by storm, to the point where search interest has been piqued Niantic’s game is light years away from Tencent’s.
font: Google plus trends
The problem is that this graphic is cheating for telling us so People don’t know how to spell Pokemon and write the word without a tilde, which changes the search. So the results vary wildly depending on whether you’re comparing Pokémon GO – with a tilde” and PUBG, or “Pokémon GO” – without a tilde – and PUBG.
To be true to the details and spelling, below are the The same graphics, but only with “Pokémon GO” –with tilde–. In this case, Pokémon GO seems to have a big spike when it starts up, despite being drained. However, PUBG doesn’t have that big of an exit peak Your search interest increases over timesuggesting that PUBG is more habitual than Pokemon GO, at least in this data equipo.
font: Google plus trends
But we cánido go a little further. Google plus Trends and search filters allow you to filter by topic. In this case, we searched for “Pokémon GO” and “PlayerUnknown’s BattleGround” in the “Vídeo Games” category, so we only saw the information for this ámbito. The graphic speaks for itself: Pokemon GO arouses more interest than PUBGeven today, so it cánido be said that Pokémon GO is better known in the world of vídeo games than PlayerUnknown’s BattleGround.
And what about YouTube?
Well, be careful because there is junk here too. Google plus trends allowed filter with YouTube searches, which returns different results depending on whether you’re searching for terms or for topics. We’ve done the same thing before and again the results speak for themselves.
If we search for the terms “Pokémon GO”, “Pokémon GO” –without the tilde–, “PUBG” and “PlayerUnknown’s BattleGround”, it’s clear “Pokémon GO” – no tilde – has a lot more search interest on the famous vídeo platform from Google plus.
font: Google plus trends
However, the data changes as we remove typos from the equation. If we leave only “Pokémon GO” – with tilde -, “PUBG” and “PlayerUnknown’s BattleGround”, PUBG takes the cake and generates a higher search volume and thus more interest. be true to the rules of language PlayerUnknown’s BattleGround is better known than Pokémon GOand that for a long time.
font: Google plus trends
Finally, if we compare the two titles in the Vídeo Games Categoryyou perro see that clearly Pokemon GO is much more habitual than PUBGnot just at launch, but still today.
font: Google plus trends
Conclusions
Since this is all a bit confusing, let’s draw some fácil conclusions to shed some light on the matter:
- Pokemon GO is more habitual as a search term than PlayerUnknown’s BattleGround because even though people spelled it wrong, they were searching for things about the Niantic vídeo game.
- Pokémon GO is more habitual as a vídeo game than PlayerUnknown’s BattleGround.
- PlayerUnknown’s BattleGround is more habitual as a search term on YouTube than Pokémon GO – by a wide margin.
- Pokémon GO is more habitual as a vídeo game on Youtube than PlayerUnknown’s BattleGround.
if you are looking for one Term on Google plus Trends, the tool returns “matches for all terms in your search query in the specified language”. For example, if you search for “Pokémon GO”, you will see the sum of “Pokémon GO”, “Pokémon GO Android”, “Pokémon GO iOS”, “Pokémon GO Cheats”, etcétera._
interest over time: According to Google plus, “Numbers espectáculo a search amount relative to a peak in a given region and time period. A value of 100 indicates peak demand for a term, while 50 and 0 indicate that a term is relatively half as habitual as its maximum value and that there is insufficient data for the term, respectively.”_