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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: 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.