Shares in Nintendo have surged 77 per cent to a six-year high in just over a week on the game’s success, adding US$15 billion (RM60 billion) in market value.
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POKEMON GO is now available to download in Scotland and is already proving hugely popular in East Lothian. Which simply means that its investor board is making a lot of money.
Players can report Pokemon Gyms and PokeStops in inappropriate locations, too. When a pokemon is near, the player’s phone will vibrate and the pokemon will show up on the phone screen.
But the calls for a boycott, and the fact that Pokemon GO hasn’t even been released in China, have not deterred fans.
In just a few days, the new smartphone game has become the most downloaded app in the United States.
Finally, Hanke also confirmed that the company is going to introduce some sort of sponsorship scheme in the game in the future, which will designate some stores and vending machines as Poke Stops and Gyms in the game. Data firm SimilarWeb said that the app is about to surpass Twitter among Android users in the U.S.as far as the number of daily active users.
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Despite that recent patch to the iOS version of Pokemon Go that was supposedly created to fix an error in the game that caused it to request full access to the Google accounts of those players that chose the Google sign-in option, it appears that some Pokemon Go iOS users are reporting that their permission settings remain unaltered. However, the strength of Alphabet companies is in technology development, and the company is able to monetize its technology through partnerships with other companies. The head of the developer behind Nintendo Co Ltd’s Pokemon Go said he wanted to launch the smash-hit mobile game in roughly 200 countries and regions “relatively soon” and was working on bolstering server capacity to enable the wider rollout. “Ingress, our first “real world” game, has given millions of players an entirely new way to see the world around them”.
