Pokemon Go’s Japan launch delayed

It was only last summer that Gartner’s annual “Hype Cycle” report said augmented reality, or AR, technology was in a “trough of disillusionment” phase. Via Excite News, McDonald’s Japan is quoted as saying, “This was not an announcement our company made”.

PokeStops are destinations where users collect virtual items within the Pokemon game. According to the executive, they are being extra careful on the launch, given the level or expectations and the number of players who will take to their smartphones to play the game ones it goes online. After that other countries will slowly join the pool.

The game’s wild popularity has crashed computer servers around the world, making it inaccessible in some countries.

It found that Pokemon Go users were 75 percent more likely to visit Hot Topic, which sells alternative-culture-related clothing and accessories, besting all other merchants. On top of Hong Kong, Japan and India, this includes the Southeast Asia region. Reached out for comment, Niantic CEO John Hanke said that he did not expect the game to be this huge that the servers have to go down due to failure in handling the loads. Daily purchases by U.S. iPhone users were estimated at more than $1.6 million on July 11.

Pokemon Go’s struggled a tad with server issues since the beginning of its staggered worldwide release two weeks ago – that’s perhaps not surprising considering it’s now passed the 30 million downloads mark.

Nintendo’s stock was down 10 per cent in afternoon trade.

It touched a six-year high of 32,700 Japanese yen in the previous session, and the company is now worth 4.5 trillion Japanese yen, or approximately $56.7 billion. We could see Nintendo’s stock getting another boost.

Media reported the smash-hit mobile phone game was going to be released there on Wednesday. Third, it is important to remember that Nintendo does not fully own the franchise.

A hacking group, PoodleCorp, has announced that it will attempt to take Pokemon Go offline on August 1 through a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, which will apparently deny access to the players. The world you see on your Pokemon Go screen corresponds to the world you see around you. This means there’s no way to tell when you’re closing in on a Pokemon or, from a distance, how far you’ll have to travel to capture one. In the US, some shop owners are participating in the game not for fun but to reel in customers.

McDonald’s, for example, has agreed to turn its 3,000 stores in Japan into “gyms“, where players can battle over animated creatures. Since not all younger generations know what a Walkman is, Nintendo has a bigger edge in the market now, GIXTools reported. That was a modest projection, based on the assumption that AR/VR would remain a niche field. Nintendo surpassed Sony’s market value. The common Pokemon Go Terms and their meanings are listed below.