The game, which challenges players to go out into the real world in search of Pokemon, is available in those countries for both iOS and Android.
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“Why limit it?” John Hanke, chief executive of Niantic, which developed Pokemon GO jointly with Nintendo affiliate Pokemon Company, told Reuters in an interview on Friday.
Investors – and gamers – are waiting to see when Pokemon GO will be launched in other major markets, particularly Japan, one of the world’s biggest gaming markets. The language: “You grant to Niantic a nonexclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, transferable, sublicensable, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, copy, modify, create derivative works based upon, publicly display, publicly perform and distribute your User Content”.
Indeed, the terms of service account for this kind of flexibility as Pokemon Go evolves.
One of the most important features of the game is that it has merged the virtual and real worlds, as it relies on your location.
But he was more reticent about prospects for a launch in China, saying only that there are regulations that have to be considered.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said he was unaware of reports that the game could be a security risk and that he did not have time to play with such things.
Other government ministries did not respond to faxed questions about the game.
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Pokemon Go: The app that managed to get scores of people moving again. Not only is the game not on Chinese app stores, but also Google services are blocked in China. Google acquired Keyhole for $35 million in 2004, and Hanke stayed on to lead the development of Google Earth, Maps, and StreetView.
