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What Is Pokemon Go?
Posted On Jul 16 2016
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It’s served as great nostalgia for millennials alright, but beyond that, it’s stood out as an innovative game in its own right, one that makes use of augmented reality to allow players to hunt for virtual Pokemon in real-life settings. “We do not have any announced plans for countries beyond New Zealand, Australia, US and Germany at the moment”. Peter Moore took it to the Twitter and joked about the popularity of Pokemon Go, saying that the game was released to ensure that EA games get delayed as all the developer are playing it instead of working.
Despite only releasing a week ago, Pokemon Go has already set a new bench mark in the US.
Although he says the DS version might be safer, Dolsen says the Pokemon GO app is worth the risk.
The reach and popularity of Pokemon Go can not be overstated.
But now that the game is launched in Germany and United Kingdom, more users could drift towards the app that now has more engagement time than Facebook in the USA, as some have even found the alternate methods cumbersome.
Niantic, the lab that developed the game, declined to comment regarding an eventual launch.
“Pokemon Go” fulfills a fantasy that Pokemon fans have had since the first games came out in the 1990’s. The app is enjoying 4 to 5 million downloads per day, which is the reason its rising so quickly through the ranks of the most popular apps.
Researchers at IT Security company Sophos has warned users that there is at least one hacked “malware remix” of the official Pokémon GO app doing the rounds.
The huge jump in shares of Nintendo has added over $10 billion (more than Rs 70,000 crore) in the market cap to the Kyoto-based company.
The longer you play, the more spending money you need to store and “train” your gathered characters, so the temptation to pay real money increases. The record-breaking statistics make the new app “the biggest mobile game in USA history”. Global Positioning System would still track a player’s location, but it would send them to places named after things is Westeros.
