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Pokémon Go is unquestionably this season's hit game. But whether it has any staying power is a very open question, and early signs suggest it's already trailing off.
Bloomberg has published some charts by Axiom Capital Management that show daily users and engagement dropping. One chart, using data from analytics firm Apptopia, shows Pokémon Go peaking at around 45 million users in mid-July, during the week or so following its launch. It then begins a decline to somewhere above 30 million daily users last week.
Bloomberg's article also notes a surge in searches for "augmented reality" coinciding with Pokémon Go's debut.
Niantic, for its part, is "still working hard on several new and exciting features to come in the future of Pokémon Go." Meanwhile, Nintendo is releasing two new 3DS Pokémon games on November 18.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Thursday August 25 2016, @02:35AM
How many people have made the news, nationally and/or locally, for putting themselves in peril while playing the game? One pair of bozos walked off of a cliff, and made national if not world news. How many have done idiotic things, and only made the local news? How many more simply weren't reported?
Who authored this game? Darwin?
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 25 2016, @02:44AM
Darwin didn't write The Game. He just explained the mechanics of it.
(Score: 2) by Whoever on Thursday August 25 2016, @04:14AM
Niantic doesn't give a sh*t.
They don't respond to reports of private or dangerous sites in a professional manner. I have reported one site, provided web links and photos to show ongoing construction, fences, etc. and their response: "insufficient evidence".
It's just like Uber and every other rapidly growing Silicon Valley company: they plan to ignore the law now and (perhaps) sort things out later.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Thursday August 25 2016, @04:35AM
1) Publish rumors and gossip throughout the Internet that new Pokemon Go characters are coming out that are exclusive to the "Real World".
2) Keep spreading, in the face of rebuttals (Just like how the Internet already works), further gossip that only special places will have them
3) Hack Niantec and use new ultra-rare Pokemon to lure thousands of crazed Darwin worshipping Pokemon Go addicts to executives houses, and Niantec's head quarters. It's like SWATTING perhaphs, but with distributed effort by people slightly less nuts.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Thursday August 25 2016, @02:07PM
How many have done idiotic things
What you really meant to ask was how many MORE idiotic things.
Something "the internet" doesn't get very well is handling fragility and death. You take someone who wasn't going to survive past next week due to poor judgment, their poor judgment leads them to walk off cliffs playing pokemon go or snort bath salts till they jump off a building or hang themselves because someone on the internet doesn't like them, any number of a million bad outcomes and the problem "on the internet" or "in the media" is the immediate proximate cause of death, not that the victim was a hopeless case.
I suspect the type of dude who walks off a cliff is very much the "hold my beer and watch this" type who jumps in large animal zoo enclosures and similar class of behavior.