The Smart Poke V2 app has landed on the Google Play Store, displaying nearby Pokemon characters on a real-time map of the user’s surrounding area.
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Pokemon Go is a strenuous game on any gaming platform, be it iOS or Android devices. The game displays Pokemon on a smartphone in the real-world by using the phone’s camera.
Niantic Labs, the creator of Pokemon Go, drew criticism when they began shutting down third party services like PokeVision, but now the developer is has issued a statement explaining their decision.
It also blamed the third-party tracking apps for “interfering with our ability to maintain quality of service for our users”. Along with the brand new features that Niantic added to Pokemon Go lately they also added a very annoying little feature that might push more people towards cheating in order to find rarer Pokemon as you’ll see below.
Reports suggest Pokémon Go just surpasses $160 million in revenue worldwide, or at least the parts of the world it’s now available in. This feature did not work the way Niantic intended it to, and did not meet their “underlying product goals”.
One thing that might change about Pokemon Go a little bit sooner, though: how hard it is to catch those damn Pidgeys now. That’s incredible. Even more incredible was the fact that Nintendo’s stock went up $9 billion despite the fact that the company had virtually nothing to do with the game. Niantic is talking with several companies interested in partnerships similar to the deal that turned almost 3,000 McDonald’s restaurants in Japan into stops for collecting virtual supplies or “gyms” for on-screen battles, Niantic Chief Executive John Hanke said.
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The US Holocaust Museum has asked players to stay away from the “hallowed grounds”, and Japanese authorities have asked the game’s makers to keep Pokémon out of Hiroshima’s Atomic Bomb Dome and Fukushima’s radioactive nuclear plant.
