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Pokemon Go stages the mass Mewtwo raid its 2015 trailer promised, a decade later
At the game's 10th anniversary event in New York City, nearly 2,000 players worked together to battle Mewtwo, the cooperative feat shown in the game's 2015 debut trailer.
Pokemon Go's 2015 debut trailer showed a vision the game took a decade to deliver: hundreds of players teaming up to take on Mewtwo. At the game's 10th anniversary event in New York City, nearly 2,000 players finally staged that exact scene.
They packed into Times Square to battle Mewtwo in a mass public event. It closed a loop Niantic opened before the game even launched.
- Nearly 2,000
- Event Players
- Over 800 million
- Total Downloads
- $1 billion
- 2025 Revenue
- 2015
- Trailer Year
Why it mattersThe event proves Pokemon Go's cooperative large-scale mechanics now work at the scale Niantic originally envisioned, a decade after the concept was first shown.
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