Despite continuing an global rollout, Pokemon Go still has vast server issues locking many players out for hours at a time – which was apparently the reason for the app’s delay in Japan in the first place.
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It isn’t clear that the issues are definitely related to the launch of Pokemon Go in Japan.
According to some sources, Pokemon Go will be officially released in eight Asian countries this week, but not in Vietnam.
Pokemon Go has finally launched in Japan, the original home of the game’s adorable virtual critters.
In “Pokemon Go”, launched this month, players search for digital creatures that pop up on smartphone screens as they move through real-world locations. “‘Pokemon Go’ can now be played in Japan”.
Junichi Masuda, head of development at Game Freak, and co-creator of the game, apologised in a video announcement on the Internet for keeping players waiting so long in the land where Pokemon was first born two decades ago.
Nintendo shares, which have seen a meteoric rise in recent days, climbed in Tokyo trading on Friday but pared gains to close up under 1 percent.
Now that the Japanese game lovers have got their Pokemon GO, we can expect that Indians too would get the official version of the game anytime soon.
The harsh stance regulators have taken towards imported digital services in the first half of this year might not augur well for the approval of a hugely popular USA game like Pokemon Go – especially given the ties to Google (Niantic began as an internal startup at Google before being spun out in 2015).
Pokemon Go is a free-to-play location-based augmented reality mobile game developed by Niantic for iOS and Android devices.
McDonald’s Japan shares rose about 3 percent following the announcement.
Some of the promises Niantic and Nintendo made during the Pokemon GO marketing campaign included world events and the inclusion of future generation Pokemon.
In this Monday, July 18, 2016 photo, a stuffed toy of Pikachu, a Pokemon character, is surrounded by children during a Pokemon festival in Tokyo. The developers knew that once the game is out, a lot of people will play the AR game.
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After weeks of stories about people in other countries running into trouble playing the game, Japanese authorities have taken precautions and issued a nine-point safety guide, in cartoon form.
