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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, @02:17PM
It is a bit early to be comparing it to MMOs.
Hey AC compare it to real world human social games for a good time. Even if I'm wrong its at least interesting to think about.
First thing that came to mind is "is everyone still playing werewolf?" or its 500 ripoff semi-copies and varieties?
I'm so old I remember playing assassination. Thats where the survivors draw names out of a hat and the object is to get them alone and squirt them with a squirt gun. Lots of sneakiness "hey come along with me so I can't get shot" little do they know I have their name on a slip of paper... You wouldn't think theres much glory or triumph in squirting a squirt gun at some idiot in a toilet stall but it is surprising fulfilling. The next day the survivors draw names out of a hat, until eventually its 1 x 1 squirt gun fight, you get the idea. Anyway no one plays assassination anymore.
In comparison something that never dies yet also nobody seems to participate in, is the eternal "host a murder in a box" party game variety of which there must be thousands. I'm not sure that genre will ever commercially die. For those unfamiliar with it, its basically LARP version of Risk, or maybe LARP of a Sherlock Holmes novel. I've done this and its fun and way too few people do this.