Aside from being the birthplace of Pokémon Go’s virtual monsters, Japan is also the second country in Asia to launch the game. Its goal, the company said, was to hire the world’s best Pokemon Master because it valued technically savvy risk takers who can “navigate through tall grass to capture wild creatures”.
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Using your phone’s Global Positioning System functionality and camera, Pokemon Go lets players catch Pokemon in real-world locations. Pokemon Go is the first mobile game to surpass 10 million downloads in seven days, according to the firm.
He calls “Pokemon Go” a game “we expect to run for years” and adds “we’re going to continue to invest in that way”.
“When I first met [The Pokemon Company president and CEO Tsunekazu Ishihara], we had a shared vision for the kind of game that we wanted to create together”. It’s also likely that many people playing Pokemon GO are either unaware of the data that Niantic and Nintendo are mining, or they just simply don’t care. Niantic has issued a guideline requesting that users play the game safely.
The Tokyo Skytree tower, on the other hand, employed a more moderate stance and simply asked gamers to play with caution as its enormous structure is a “gym” where players can fight with Pokemons, attracting more footfall.
In other news about Pokemon Go, the stars of this week’s Star Trek Beyond recently spoke out against the game, calling it “upsetting” and “bizarre.”
Nintendo, meanwhile, had fallen on hard times.
The tie-up with McDonald’s provides a new revenue stream for the game. It was particularly resistant to the idea of developing or licensing video games for smartphones.
Nintendo has invested in Niantic and owns about one-third of the Pokemon Company. Electronic parts maker Hosiden Corp., which Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group said may produce Pokemon Go Plus, sank 16 percent. The game was ready for launch for a while before today. A student at Osaka’s Kindai University reportedly fell down the stairs while playing Pokemon Go and was taking to hospital, said users on social media.
One analyst at Ace Research Institute, Hideki Yasuda said that everyone in the country had been waiting for the game to come.
Another way is to earn PokeCoins in “Pokemon Go” for free is to battle it out with other Pokemons defending a rival Gym.
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Pokemon Co. says the additional investment hasn’t been made yet, even though it looks Niantic is hitting all its targets with the precision of a Pokemon Master.
