>Since Nintendo released Pokémon Go late last week, the augmented reality video game is already on track to be one of the fastest growing phenomenons in the gaming world. More people used the app in a day than Tinder.
>With a 7% install base among Android's 1.4 billion active devices and a 10% install base among 400 million Apple devices, there are currently 138 million players making it the most popular game of all time. It hasn't even been released in Europe, South America, Canada, and many other nations.
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>>27117599
>It's going to be a fad, it will die soon!
>>27117599
This is scary.
I'm not against mobile games or anything, but for some reason I fear that Pokémon could become an unrecognizable mess in the future because of this game.
>the most popular Pokemon game ever is once in which your Pokemon are disposable and evolve in a totally different way than before
source?
>>27117830
>tfw most popular pokemon game has nothing to do with everything that made pokemon great
Feels bad man. I enjoy go, but I wish the main games got this love.
>>27117842
they roughly did 20 years ago and it's not coming back
>>27117778
with only gen 1 pokemon it's an app heavily relying on nostalgia and people have attention span comparable to that of a goldfish nowadays, it will die as fast as it came to be and european release is the only reliable way for them to stretch that out
>>27117830
this really sucks, normies and the obsession with these bastardized version of pokemon. they don't even care that they're nothing like the original games which is what they're supposed to have nostalgia for, well it's not nostalgia they're just happy to be part of this 'omg so nerdy' fad
i feel sick
>>27117599
I wonder how mad other mobile game developers are at this. Bet those evil fags that Candy Crush are shuddering in their boots as we speak.
You can call me butthurt if you want, but this shit is driving me insane.
>lololol xd anon is such a fucking retard! Who even plays Pokeyman any more?
>OMG pokemon is so cool! I've been a fan all my life. Charizard and Pikachu are the best pokemon! XDDDD
I really hope this game will be forgotten soon. All these fucking normies talking about it and how Charizard is so cool is really activating my almonds.
The only good thing it will probably do is reignite Pokemon's popularity, but the games after Sun and Moon will most likely be a casual, P2W mess.
>>27117934
It's not butthurt imo, getting mad at such an obvious hypocrisy is only natural. Just make sure to always point it out and not let those retards get away with it scot free.
I comfort myself in the thought that the games going to die sooner or later, be it by people getting bored of the concept or by butthurt normies abandoning the game once they start adding other region Pokemon (which is ironically the moment it might actually become good).
>>27117945
>2001
>A clinton running for President
Is this guy retarded?
>>27118001
>2001
>everyone is playing pokemon
I think so
>>27117934
>Adult men talking about how cool Charizard is
Wow american adults really are children mentally.
>>27118022
>wow american adults under 26 really are children mentally
Fixed that for you.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/celebritynews/11613302/Simon-Pegg-comic-book-films-are-dumbing-us-down.html
>>27117934
>Nice my favorite pokemon is Sumadee!
From here two things can happen
>Hah yeah he's cool!
This is how you know a normie
>What's a Sumadee? I've never heard of that mon.
This person is likely not a normie, but you can FUKIN DUNK ON THEM
>>27117830
I'm going to be honest, I feel bad about smearing shit all over Sun and Moon for all these months now.
I was going to pirate these games but I'm having second thoughts now. I'd rather support whatever retarded idea GameFreak comes up with than see Pokemon die a painful death to some guttered mobile garbage.
>>27118056
What the fuck is a Sumadee?
>>27118064
SUMA DEEZ NUTS
OHHHHHHHHHHH
>>27118064
You fucking walked into that
>>27117840
http://kutv.com/news/local/pokmon-go-most-popular-video-game-in-the-world-07-11-2016
>>27118043
As much of a child I am on the inside, I've just got to say, I never really got the hype over the comic book films these days.
It just feels like the same shit every time now. I mean, wouldn't it hurt to do something original for once instead of relying on comic book IPs?
It just feels like, every time I look at the cinema nowadays, all people are hyping about is the recreation or retelling of some Marvel or DC shit over and over.
I wonder if even the most hardcore fans don't usually get tired of the same shit over and over.
>>27118043
Star Trek is literally worse than capeshit.
>>27118100
>>27118102
The point isn't any of those IPs specifically, it's that someone in their 20s shouldn't be obsessed with things originally aimed at children. Maybe as a passing interest - but these things are multi million dollar industries.
>>27117864
They have nostalgia for the show you autist
>>27118115
>The point isn't any of those IPs specifically, it's that someone in their 20s shouldn't be obsessed with things originally aimed at children.
>>27118130
I am fully aware.
>>27117599
>OMG TAPPING ON THE SCREEN IS SO FUN
A flavor of the month fad is all that Pokemon pls GO is. It'll buried and forgotten in a month or so.
>>27118126
The GameBoy games were just as big as the show back in the day.
Stop talking about things you don't know about, 00er.
>>27117816
I fear that Pokémon could become an unrecognizable mess
That already happened after gen 2.
>>27118147
Fuck off leddit
>>27118100
Comic book people are exactly like the audience for the pokemon anime.
>>27117934
You are one of those idiots that hate gen 1 even though it's responsible for the whole franchise, and are too young to remember the 90s.
>>27118147
>>27117778
>138 million players
>Cheapest microtransaction is .99c
>so if each player buys 20 pokeballs they make
>$136,620,000
>now add in all the people buying other things aswell
They don't care if it dies off as a fad in a few months they've made millions just from a reskined game.
>>27118151
>Upset by the truth.
>>27118164
How the fuck did you even come to that conclusion from reading his post?
This is why nobody likes genwunners.
>>27118164
No one hate gen 1 we hate genwunners like you that cant leave the past behind fucktard piece of shit i hope your balls get dipped in hydrochloric acid.
>>27118175
I read that the cheap ass looking Go watch already sold out everywhere and is selling something like $160 a pop on Amazon.
>>27118181
>How the fuck did you even come to that conclusion from reading his post?
Probably because he vaguely implied Charizard wasn't cool.
And that's absolute haram according to genwunner laws.
>>27117599
>what is wow
>what is league of legends
keep note that this is also free - niantic cannot support that for very long without funding. It's been less than a week, these statistics seem great at first but only when given raw without context and comparison. When people start buying things there will be a severe drop off n players. The autists/ocd mentally ill collectors and hoarders (who aren't even that into regular pokemon games) will pour all their money into being "the best".
The success of this game heavily depends on how they keep people coming back. The only play value is with leaving the comfort of the home. People wouldn't even play the wii fit past a week due to the "novelty" of it wearing off fast.
I'm in no way shitting on the game itself, it's free, it's a great idea, people love it for now and I couldn't care less if it's only genwunners. If pokemon had ended for us as it did for so many of the people currently playing, we would be doing this exact same thing.
Also just because something has been installed doesn't mean it's being more played. The only thing that may be racking up hours is because it's passively connected.
>>27117599
Since when were mobile apps considered video games?
I'm...afraid. Will they cancel Sun and Moon over this? It's pretty much every handheld developer's worst nightmare come true. It's things like this that may spell the doom of handheld consoles for good. They were proven right, that's all they needed to know. We are done.
>>27118230
>Will they cancel Sun and Moon over this?
No, stfu.
>>27118194
I'm not a gen wunner I am just an anti retard who realises pokemon has gotten progressively worse.
>>27118230
They might want to rethink their Nintendo NX handheld strategy. And the success of this game will surely have a big impact on how they will handle future generations of Pokemon after this.
>>27118248
(You)
>>27118248
Shut up genwunner piece of shit.
>>27118230
I'm positive Sun and Moon are finished by now so it would make no sense for them not to release it. How will the franchise proceed after that is up to anyone's guess though.
>>27118250
What is the most complex game on the mobile market anyway? Does it even have the structure to compare to 16 bit era games?
>>27118230
Sun and Moon will be the last Pokemon game on handheld ds. The real money to be made will be phone apps. Next gen will be a Pokemon go expansion. Mobile exclusive.
>GO
>game
Pick one, OP.
>>27118264
Clash Royale? Puzzle and Dragons? Fuck if I know.
The most complex game I've ever played on a mobile phone was a fucking iOS port of MHFU and I don't think that counts.
>>27118147
>after gen 2.
Confirmed. Gen 2 was the final generation that I could still list the pokedex in order from start to finish.
I still keep forgetting that a lot of gen 3 mons exist, nevermind the rest.
>>27118230
Sun and Moon will be the last handheld Pokemon gameon the ds. The real profit will be made with mobile. Next Pokemon gen will be on the mobile as an exclusive Pokemon go expansion
>>27118221
Since handheld games require about as much processing as a mobile app, if not less.
>>27118264
Can't think of any complex game, most games are shit for mobile so I don't bother with it. Go is like the only smartphone game done right, and there is so many options to expand it into a more complete in the near future. When there are leaderboards and PvP stuff like that people will be even more motivated to keep playing the game after they completed everything.
>>27117830
That's because the original mechanics weren't suited to open ended gameplay.
Well, until they added a billion pokemon and hoped that people would actually try to catch them all.
>>27118230
>Cancel Sun and Moon
>During mid development
>>27118250
At first I think they'll add some kind of compatibility between 3DS/N3DS and smartphones. GO is already supposed to connect to PokéBank, so there's that.
In the future we'll probably get a lot of smartphone apps that work like the Pokéwalker or the Dream World.
>>27118230
I would actually prefer it to move to mobile gaming, the poorfags on here just use showdown anyway.
I think GO is garbage but probably because I know that the main games are better. But think about it, everyone in the first world needs a phone and these days it's hard to get a phone that isn't a smartphone. If you were to buy the next gen console you're looking at $300 - $400 or more. If those consoles don't have gps and mobile capabilities then they're essentially garbage now. If they do have those then they basically become a smartphone anyway? If all of us who are willing to buy a console were to just buy a phone powerful enough to play a BASIC ass pokemon game (which is entirely possible and more) then we'd have no need for a console to be made.
There is literally no problem.
>>27118310
You mean the same thing that Pokemon did to keep the Game Boy from dying to start with?
DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!
>>27118323
>There is literally no problem.
except nintendo makes money off consoles.
wew lad
>>27118310
Anon you don't understand
Pokemon Go exploded as much as it did exactly because it was guttered of those "unnecessary" gamey things. Yes even simple features like trading make normies heads spin these days. Enjoy your "tap to win" combat and pray it doesn't spill over to the main games.
>>27118329
It's time for the DS and handhelds to die to be honest. One of the reason why Go is so popular is because everyone and their grandma has a smartphone instead of some dated 3DS.
>>27118323
>poorfags
I don't get this meme. What makes you think that people who dread the idea of pokémon abandoning handhelds and moving to smartphones are poorfags? As you implied, pretty much everyone has a smartphone, but the number of people who bother spending money on a 3DS is considerably lower.
As a poorfag who doesn't even own a 2DS and who only played fucking Shuffle out of all Gen 6 games, this "you just complain about mobile because you're too poor to buy a smartphone" argument makes no fucking sense.
>>27118374
It exploded for several reasons
1. Nostalgia
2. Its on a phone
3. It allows you to go and hunt pokemon in the real world
I'd argue that the majority of people playing have probably not even tried the gyms, they'd rather catch them.
>>27117599
>there are already people coming to /vp/ and absolutely refusing to check the catalog before making threads
>there are another 138 MILLION of them
if this lasts we'll need a sticky telling them to check the fucking catalog
>>27118374
It needs something that makes it easy playable and understandable for the most retarded people but if they want to keep their core fans they better have some more complexity in the game as well.
>>27118010
>2001
>didn't play pokemon with everyone
let me guess, you are instinct, right? faggot
>>27118316
>mid development
The games have been finished since early 2016 at very least.
I would have said they're now brainstorming ideas for gen 8 but with Pokemon Go explosive success who knows what's going on in GameFreak's HQ.
>>27118397
They never needed us.
>>27118230
I'm almost certain they're not going to stop bringing out handheld games, for one, I doubt Nintendo would let them and secondly, Pokemon Go is a phase, people will stop playing it likely in a few months tops. Their games are where their main income is and so is their hardcore market.
>>27118406
No, but I acknowledge that it peaked between 1999 and 2000.
By 2001 it wasn't pokemania anymore, it was people like us.
>>27118397
But they don't want the core fans. Why do you think the game only features the first 151 Pokemon?
God I can't wait for them to introduce new mons - normies will either A. Bitch about how shit they are and leave or B. Start liking the new ones and be less aggressive to the new games
>>27118422
To not waste development time on a game that might flop.
>>27118410
That's why I said it's already been proven. There's many times more of them than there are of us. They have already eclipsed all gens COMBINED. We can't compete.
These fucking pokestops haven't stopped having Lure Mods in the past fucking hour.
>>27118248
>I'm not saying I'm a genwunner but I'm a genwunner
objectively charizard is shit, the entire first 149 are pretty damn shit. Look at Dragonite compared to Garchomp, now you can call it edgy or whatever you feel like - but one looks like Barney and the other looks like something worthy of the dragon typing. I get it "m-muh simple pokemon", going back to your previous comment let me make something clear to you. Gen 1 did start it all, that's all we had for years until most of us were teenagers right? At that point people were too "Scared" of having an interest in pokemon or just in general didn't have a love for games because they weren't for "adults". Now everyone is accepting games in all forms, they go back to pokemon for nostalgia. Of course they're not going to like the new ones, people generally don't like "new things", even vp mostly hates new things. The difference is that we understand that pokemon progressed, we were there for it. Gen 1 has designs that appealed to children of the 90s, those designs are all extremely bad compared to the more detailed pokemon we have now. Nobody really explicitly hates gen 1, we hate people like you who for some reason believe it got worse because YOU don't like new things or change. Just like how nostalgiafags basically have a phobia of all the new pokemon, because they have no fucking idea what they are. They don't want to know what they are because that wasn't pokemon to them - even though the franchise went on without them for uh... 20 fucking years. They have no right to comment on it when gen 1 made up for only a few years and has 5 other gens stacked on top of it. Gen 1 is the minority. It may have started it but it was the OTHER gens that kept it going for 20 years.
fucking rant over
get fucked fucking genwunner piece of shit
learn to accept change
>>27118321
>in the future
>Contests/Musicals/Pokéathlon clones will be done through an app where you an play with your facebook friends
>Battle Frontier/Subway/Maison clones will be accessible through an app as well
>Amie will be removed to the games and made available in an app
>E4/Gym leader rematches and other game functionalities can only be done after you get some medals in smartphone apps to unlock them in-game
>events will be distributed via said apps (and will still be region locked)
>the actual games will be left barebones, with next to no postgame or functions
This is the future you chose
>>27118440
>objectively charizard is shit
Stopped reading there, confirmed shit opinion
>>27117599
Anyone explain this to me fags.
I pass these fucking poke stops so many fucking times and I never get any fuckig items from them or Pokeballs or anything.
Is it bugged or what?
UK fag.
>>27118422
That wasn't the point though, they dont want to alienate their core fans, gamefreak know that all they have to do to get their fans interested is to bring out another generation. They're trying to lure in the casual market with Pokemon Go.
It's the same reason the Wii had both hardcore Mario/Zelda games and casual sports/party games. They want to be able to appeal to both markets.
>>27118455
click on the spot stupid
>>27118455
>Pass
Tap on it and spin the icon.
>>27118448
>actually believes their taste is good
when was the last time you saw a charizard thread? That's right, once every fucking never.
Also remember that X/Y megas don't count because they're not gen 1. :^)
>>27118455
You're supposed to click them and spin the round part by swiping it left or right, not just walk past it (if that's what you mean)
Otherwise, I don't see why they would be denying you any items other the occasional "try again later" message I get from some pokestops.
>>27118264
XCOM probably
>>27118375
I'd go a step further and say Nintendo should just abandon making hardware altogether and focus on producing quality software instead. Since Wii their systems were always overpriced, day 1 obsolete garbage with some useless gimmick tacked on. The games are the only thing this company has going for it these days.
Fortunately Pokemon translates rather easily to mobile systems as anyone with GBA/DS emulator on their phones can attest.
>more people will buy Sun & Moon now
>muh how do I obtain candies for my pokemon
>GF introduces this new level up and evolve system for Gen 8
It's over
>>27118455
You have to tap them then spin the disk retard.
>>27118436
Except Pokemon GO is a phase like i said, sure it's popular now but this is the peak of it's popularity, in a few months casual players will lose interest where as they can keep pumping out handheld games that they know their hardcore fans will keep buying.
>>27118477
>Actual incentive to catch more pokemon
>A bad thing
>>27118478
>>27118472
>>27118469
>>27118468
T-thanks guys...
I must have missed something
>>27118493
>>27118436
it was also free.
do not forget how that does not make any money for gf at all.
>>27118436
>They have already eclipsed all gens COMBINED.
Lol what? Not even close. The franchise sold like 500 million games throughout all generations.
>>27118493
It hasnt even come out officially in most of the world
>>27118516
like imagine if they asked for $80 for an actual game on a smartphone - we would see a decline in popularity before it even releases.
>>27118499
nah, I had to learn that online too, it does a real shitty job explaining pokestops
>>27118440
>Look at Dragonite compared to Garchomp
You were supposed to prove him wrong anon.
>>27117599
>27 million
By July 2012, League of Legends was the most played PC game in North America and Europe in terms of the number of hours played. As of January 2014, over 67 million people played League of Legends per month, 27 million per day, and over 7.5 million concurrently during peak hours.
it's time to stop posting
>>27118528
No but it has come out in their largest audience country which is America. I doubt Europe is going to make much of a difference too be honest
>>27118562
>which is America
*the philippines
>>27118516
and considering how liberal they are with micro transactions. i doubt they will make much. Pokeballs aren't hard to find.
>>27118516
I'd bet they've mad at least 50 million just in the first week
>>27118549
>actually likes barneydragon unironically
>>27118573
How many people live in the Philippines? Because I doubt its anywhere near as many as America.
>>27118560
>27 million
Where the fuck did you pull that figure from? There are currently 138 million Go players around the world and the game still has yet to release in Europe and Japan. It's ogre.
>>27117599
I played the game, I went outside, I went downtown with my friends to go "catch some pokemon".
I didn't have fun, where is the fun? Why aren't people just emulating better core series pokemon games instead?
Is this fad all one elaborate joke that i'll never understand?
>>27118597
About a third as many as the US, point is it's more popular there than in the US.
Which seems horrifying. What the fuck is even going on there. That smells like renaming the country to the pikaphines tier popular.
>>27118585
it's a 1.6m daily revenue from microtransactions, that's 86 cents per player. You really think 86 cents per player is enough to support it?
>>27118588
>prefers a dragon that actually looks like a dragon rather than a derpy dinosaur with big claws
Yes, it's called taste anon
>>27118611
Normalfags don't actually like videogames, they like the idea of videogames. This is so easy to play that it gives them a feeling of accomplishment, and something to talk about.
>>27118560
what are you quoting?
>>27118606
27million LoL players, it greentexted weird because of the gap. You probably should have realized that though.
>>27117599
Oh, come on. I really doubt Go's success is going to kill off Pokemon as we know it. Everyone forgets so easily that the main series games are popular in their own right, always being some of the best selling games of whatever year they come out.
They already have Go, now. They're going to add onto that. They aren't going to turn the main series into Go. That would literally accomplish nothing for them. They'd be throwing money away.
>>27118629
Easily with this large of a player base and when it shrinks the majorities that are left will be cash players anyways.
>>27117864
most people i've spoken to about pokemon in the last few years remember it predominantly as a card game and tv show, and are surprised when i specify i'm a fan of the GAME
>>27118637
I don't understand. What do they do for fun, then?
>>27118632
>ah yes taste, the taste of shit. mmmm
no wonder everything you say is shit, you've been keeping that shit opinion inside you for 20 years anon.
>Set up lure mod in a secluded area
>Mug the idiot who comes to check it out
Thanks, Nintendo, making this too easy.
>>27118650
Don't get what everyone's complaining about, Pokemon has always been the most successful game on each platform it's come out on and everytime a new gen gets revealed it gets posted everywhere (Sun and Moon's first gameplay trailer was the top video on youtube for about a week if i recall) and tons of normies bought X and Y because "muh pokemon in 3d".
Pokemon still has a presence.
>>27118674
Watch TV series on netflix, hang out with friends, drink, party, date, have sex, shit like that. Maybe do some sports or go to the gym if they're not fatasses.
Normies are truly a bizarre species.
>>27118440
Garchomp?? Come on, Druddigon or Rayquaza are obviously the most "dragon" looking Pokémon.
>>27118637
Now the ironic thing is the "idea of video games" wouldn't exist without the dedicated fanbase. They're the ones who create this "nerdy xD" atmosphere that normies love so much. This is why vidya companies cannot just completely abandon the core audience, which is why I'm mostly confident about the future of the hobby unlike some people ITT.
>>27118612
By that logic you're counting on EVERYONE in the Philippines to buy Pokemon Go in order to beat America, there are probably more people in America that have played Pokemon than their are in the Phillippines
>>27118710
nigger its a free game of course the poorfags are playing it
>>27118680
>Mugging
>When you could be setting up lures for raping instead
You disappoint me, Rance.
>>27118695
I do most of that stuff too, but it doesn't seem like enough to fill time or give you something to talk about with friends, but all of my friends are StarCraft basement dwellers, so idk what a normie conversation is like.
>>27117599
I have friends in Middle East and Europe; it's crazy as fuck there and everyone's playing the game right now. It's nuts, it's absolutely nuts
If Niantic rolls updates out accordingly, this will be bigger than candy crush and clash of clans and angry birds put together
Has interest in Sun and Moon risen at all since this began?
>>27118757
lol
no
>>27118749
I doubt it, theres only so much they can do with this app other than add more pokemon which will trigger normies to stop playing.
>>27118651
This is true, but that number is still based on initial release microtransactions. It's exponentially larger than it would be. I would say that if the same popularity continued on for a month you would see a massive drop in microtransactions and it will go down to maybe 10 cents or less per player. This would be synonymous when the popularity dies, people first of all won't need to use the microtransactions anymore and second would have a lot less people doing it as often compared to the popularity at the time.
example:
first day: 1.6m per 400m players (btw I messed up that's only 40 cents per player.
100th day: 400k a day per 200m players.
the amount made will decrease to 1/4 but the players are halved. Essentially meaning the ratio is far off from day 1. That's only 20 cents per person a day.
>>27118757
Actually yes, apparently pre-orders have risen on Amazon since.
>>27118757
GO has been an unprecedented massive advertising campaign for Gamefreak and Nintendo
SuMo launch sales will probably be higher than expected
>>27118650
GO had a 20$ budget while I don't know XY had maybe a million dollar budget? Well, the point here is that it's FAR more profitable to make cheap and quick mobile "games" than make a shitty mainline game. Yes, they can still make mainline games but why the fuck would you do ate when you have turbo casuals eating the shit out of mobile fuckery? Seriously, this is like having a million dollar job at day and then decide to mop floors at night. Pic related, it's the future of pokemon, you better hope that they fuck up future mobile installments.
>>27117599
>game
its need gameplay before it can be one of those
>>27118787
Fucking captcha ate my pic.
>>27118783
>SuMo
>>27117599
Honestly this whole thing is going to be the Wii all over again, massive surge in popularity during its first year then steady decline after that. The worst that can happen is Game Freak are going to try and ride the popularity train and end up crashing like the Wii u.
I doubt they're ever going to abandon their hardcore market because they know its their only safety net and they're playing a dangerous game right now what with how quickly trends change these days.
>>27118757
>>27118761
Sorry for linking to >leddit but someone out there actually noticed that yes, they actually did
https://www.reddit.com/r/nintendo/comments/4s8wgf/main_pokemon_games_rise_on_amazon_bestseller_list/
https://www.amazon.com/gp/movers-and-shakers/videogames/ref=zg_bs_tab_t_bsms#1
Pokemon Yellow 280% from 1067 place to 267
Pokemon Red 102% 296 from 599
Pokemon Blue 164% from 960 to 363
Nintendo DS Onyx Edition 41% from 549 to 388
Pokemon Black 43% from 282 to 196
Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon 29% from 397 to 307
Pokemon Sun 28% from 28 to 21
3ds XL Black 25% from 30 to 24
>>27118787
http://siliconangle.com/blog/2015/10/15/pokemon-go-dev-niantic-nabs-up-to-30-million-in-funding-from-google-nintendo-and-pokemon/
Do you guys think that they'll put Gen 2 pokemon in?
>>27118787
Except they spend like 1 million dollers and make about 5 times that in sales, double, if you include they fact that they usually release 2 versions.
Go is a fad and doesn't have nearly enough content to sustain itself. Their handhold games and core fans are their backbone and unless they want to commit corporate suicide they will never abandon them as the game they're playing with Go is incredibly risky.
>>27117599
>"Free smart phone game carrying world-famous IP license is popular!"
Stop the fucking presses.
To all the retards saying Nintendo isn't making money from this:
Their stock market price is up 25% and rising, JUST FROM RELEASING THE GAME.
Doesn't even account for how much cash they're getting from the microtransactions
>>27118865
I believe they already confirmed more Pokemon are going to be added back at E3. But they're not going to do it so early as to not scare away the normies. They're going to wait till the fad passes until dropping more content for those dedicated enough to keep playing.
It's true then? Gen 7's Sun and Moon will be the last Pokemon game as we once have known it.
Gamefreak will shaft Nintendo at some point and make the full switch to phones and then build upon the real-world pokemon experience on phones in the most watered down freemium normiestraveganza the likes never seen before in the history of gaming.
>>27118723
I like your style, other Rance.
people in this thread totally ignoring the big data scooping potential and power of GO — this is where the money is being made and it's why the app is "free"
it's not actually free, it's a contract between you and the provider, in which you agree to exchange the experience of their app with all the data they want to gather from your device
>>27118937
Oh god, DON'T FUCKING SAY THAT
>>27118958
This.
>>27118913
You're misunderstanding why Nintendo stocks are going up.
A lot of investors had started to question the value of nintendos IP pokemon included so the company had lost a lot of marked value based on that. The release of pokemon GO and the insanity the ensued simply showed that investors had severely undervalued nintendos IP.
>>27117934
I'm enjoying it, to be honest. Those people who thought Pokemon was stupid and teased me for playing it way back when? They're all Pokemaniacs now. Feels good to be vindicated by history.
I don't even care that it's nowhere close to as good as the games, either. Having a poor quality game is their punishment.
>>27118175
if this success then once again we gonna see japanese genius, but to be honest, this game is so poorly made that they literally buried more moneys alive, of course if they won't update it and unleash it's potential
>>27118629
>1.6m daily revenue
is there even a question whether that can support it?
jesus christ, that's clash of clans-tier revenue
>>27117599
so i saw this on the front page on 4chan and i don't browse this board but i've been hearing so much about this pokemon go thing
like what is it? can you guys fill me in?
>>27118795
Why'd you have to remind me of that monstrosity, anon? It still hurts.
>>27119162
geocaching mobile game where you catch pokemon, visit landmarks and take over gyms for your teamit's shit
>>27119162
A crappy GPS mobile phone game with a Pokemon skin over it. Fun for maybe 10 minutes, if you're an actual fan of the series.
>>27119052
The shareholders have been bitching for Nintendo to go mobile and team up with Apple/Google for a while.
Nintendo throws red meat at them with a project involving Google's offshoot Niantic, it grabs headlines all over the US/Australia and popularity exceeds expectations, suddenly everyone is buying and now the stock is stuck in a bubble.
>>27119142
youre misunderstanding, it's only 40c per player, 1.6m is how much they earned. Revenue =/= ptofit, it has to keep earning more than what it costs which might be hard in coming months. I explained that while popularity will drop significantly, so will microtransactions - but at an different rate. Microtransaction should fall much harder, since the most money ever spent on games is in the first month. But if the popularity is halved and the microtransactions are quartered that's only 20c per player compared to the current 40 cents per player.
That isn't really that much. But at least the investors and worth towards pokemon IP went up by like 7 billion, so there's that. That isn't towards niantic though, that's towards GF.
for the most part mobile games need endless content
wish they'd add a real battle system to increase depth, and add newer gens
don't think that'd turn away normies as much honestly
>this kills Nintendo handhelds and future mainline games
Get ready kids, Sun and Moon will likely be the last of their kind.
>>27119287
The game is young. Not sure if they'll ever do anything with the battle system, but adding new Pokemon? You can bet on it.
>>27119316
XY and ORAS were fucking trash so it's ok I guess.
Maybe that will give real fans a reason to step up in rom hacks development.
>>27118958
Why hasn't anyone made a bigger point about this, I just deleted my GO account because I realized exactly how bad that actually is. At first I was just like "lol its just locally sharing info" but in fact your literal google account and everything associated with it is accessible by them. When I went to delete the account it said my google account won't be able to be used again, that speaks volumes in itself because they know how much privacy they've infringed on.
I mean you can make a separate gmail for it etc, which is good enough. But I think more people might need to be made aware of that?
>>27118958
You own a google account AND a smartphone. You're fucked regardless.
regardless you're a fucking nobody your data is insignificant.
>>27119373
Wow, what a creative and original post. I regret to inform you that /vp/ is currently overrun by GO players. If you are too sad, angry or lonely to enjoy it with others then could at least refrain from these stupid posts considering that it will have ZERO effect outside bumping the thread.
>>27119384
you missed the point didn't you
>big data
millions of nobodies are somebody — this is the reason big data is such big business
go read some Jaron Lanier
>>27119384
it is when someone hacks into their shit and is allowed access to all our emails which is essentially the control center for everything from paypal to bank accounts to subscribed porn.
>>27119406
>>27119414
Nintendo already addressed this issue anyway and will drastically limit access to data with next update. I bet buzzfeed left that part out.
>>27119370
>>27118958
>>27119002
You realize that every app has the same potential and the only way to be completely safe is to not own anything digital and go live in the woods, Sony and Microsoft have been selling your details off for years, your phone contract and ISP have been selling your information off for years the NSA and US government probably knows more about you that you do, if you're only now worried about your privicy what the fuck are you doing online, at all, ever.
>>27119460
Of course buzzfeed left that out.
>>27118001
Id think he'd say 1996 cause blink is putting out new music and everyone is playing Pokémon
Oh no, a spin-off game is popular, it's going to kill the series just like Pokemon Snap did.
Nobody's praising the casualized combat or other stuff like that, it's the fact that you can walk around in the real world while catching Pokemon alongside the novelty of Ingress, a game that hardly anyone played before.
If Pokemon Go had deeper mechanics that were more similar to the traditional ones, better servers, and was a finished product overall, there would probably be a lot more people praising it around here. Even if Nintendo were to make more mobile games, it would make more sense for them to improve on the game mechanics instead of rehashing this rushed and casualized system.
>>27118264
I'd say Avabel Online. It's a giant mmorpg done properly, huge maps, amazing graphics, and it's not p2w because the draws are randomized. I play it on my tablet, but I could also play it on an Android or apple phone.
>>27117830
They fixed this with being able to power up the ones you want to keep. You can also favourite and nickname them. It saves the date and location from when you caught it, the Pokémon can get really personal.
Cheer up anon.
>>27118137
>tapping on a screen
>what is Nintendo DS
>>27117599
>tfw I can't play GO because I had to root my phone to get it to android 4.4 and now my mobile data doesnt work.
>>27120056
Are you retarded my man, Snap and the other spinoffs don't come close to this thing popularityI do have to agree with all your other points though
Can't wait for Nintendik to fuck their shit up again by going
"Aw rook at rall these casural gamurs plarin our gamr! Fuk the hardacor fans we r mobilru dev nowr."
Then just like when they tried to fuck off their main fans after the Wii did so well the normies will get bored and move onto something else. Leaving them with nothing at all.
When will developers learn that getting the casual market is like trying to catch lightning in a bottle? 9 times out of 10 you are just pissing off the people who actually like your game.
"pokemon is very big mistake, even more big than godzirra" -satoshi tajiri
Isn't the correct plural word phenomena?
>>27118100
Every people likes garbage, some sort or another.
May it be soap operas, football, comic books, anime, hip-hop, rock, metal, video games, Pokemon, whatever.
Nobody is out of blame.
>>27118441
>>Contests/Musicals/Pokéathlon clones will be done through an app where you an play with your facebook friends
>>Battle Frontier/Subway/Maison clones will be accessible through an app as well
If they just put them in Go, I would be fucking thrilled. Throw Pokéathlon events in as well.
>>Amie will be removed to the games and made available in an app
I've been asking for this before Amie even existed - an app where you can pet and play with pokemon like a tamagotchi.
>>27118958
This.
Big data selling for profiling and that kind of things are the new business model.
Some agencies would kill for the data that Pokemon GO is able to provide, which is not limited to:
1. Where you live. This can be easily by triangulating your usual Pokemon catching positions.
2. Building imaging from buildings insides, by using both GPS and AR to run the game, gathering relevant pictures from the activity.
3. By putting Pokemon in dangerous or difficult zones can be even used to gather data on how risky is to give you insurance or health plans.
>>27118757
>1st gen getting the main boost
JUST
They should have released Fire Red and Leaf Green instead.
>>27120113
But if you're just trading them away to get more powerful versions there's no point in favoriting them or nicknaming...
>>27118264
GTA SA is on the phone dude
>>27118937
>gamefreak will shaft nintendo
yeah that's not going to happen. They don't even have the choice to do so as nintendo owns not only 30% of the company but pretty much all the IP themselves.
A gamefreak only game would probably require all new pokemon and no pokeballs, it wouldn't be recognizably pokemon at all.
this game is fun tbqh
pic related I just singlehandedly took the post office back from blue scrubs
>>27118001
>a Clinton's under investigation for illegal activities
Would have been more accurate.
I'm split on the nerd rage because of the popularity of the game.
On one hand I agree its kind of annoying to have been a fan since it began and be made fun of for 'still playing pokemon anon?' and having people who thought it was stupid or not worth it now be obsessed/pretend they were fans all along.
But on the other side it's nice seeing people who naturally just grew out of it nostalgia hard over the Gen 1s and remember what fun they had playing the game. You never know, when they roll in more Gens maybe it'll inspire some to buy the newer games and we'll have more pokefans.
>>27118248
That's exactly what a Genwunner is you fucking idiot. FFS please explain HOW and why Pokemon has gotten worse?
>>27118137
>OMG selecting from 4 options in a turn based game is so fun!
>>27117816
I'm guessing you haven't seen the new retarded bear.
>>27117599
I just deleted it.
I hate to be such a hipster, but it's getting so out of hand. I can't be talking to somebody, even a stranger, for more than 5 minutes before it comes up. And I've seen such retarded behavior from people. My friend had to pull over the car every time his phone dinged, and I watched a group of grown men sprint across the highway with traffic to get to a Pokestop.
That video of Central Park just ignited the hate even further.
Casualizing, patronizing bullshit. Now I know how The Beatles first fans felt once they exploded.
Good bye, Gen 8. We hardly knew ye.
>>27123754
link for central park video?
>>27123852
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/pokemon-go-central-park-pokestop-gym-nyc-new-york-the-matrix-is-coming-a7132391.html
>>27117945
So when's 9/11 2?
>>27124307
>all those Asians
If anything this is a good sign.
Asians are predisposed to nerdome. perhaps this epidemic is contained... or perhaps that's hopeful thinking...
>>27117945
Quality public education.
Goddamn, I knew /vp/ was full of edgelords, but I didn't know you guys were this edgy. Just relax, this thing isn't going to kill Pokemon lmao. The hardcore market will always buy the main games because they're way deeper in terms of mechanics and more fun. So what if people who maligned the series are playing it now, it's not like Nintendo is actually going to dump the console/handheld franchise. Are you all this retarded?
>>27124686
>saying lmao unironically
NORMIE GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY BOOOOOAAAAAAARD
>>27121325
>3. By putting Pokemon in dangerous or difficult zones can be even used to gather data on how risky is to give you insurance or health plans.
Shit, wish I thought of that.
>>27117934
Hey, fuck you. Jolly Mega Charizard X with Dragon Dance, Flare Blitz, Roost, and Dragon Claw is fun as shit to use. I will, however, always pick Bulbasaur whenever it's between the Kanto starters.
Im really sorry about for defending PoGo against my real pokemon fans here, game is shity as fug and playerbase is cancerous today i realized outside, deleted this nonsense and ordered my new 3DS.
>>27117599
>With a 7% install base among Android's 1.4 billion active devices and a 10% install base among 400 million Apple devices
there's only 7.5 million AmeriKKKANS that has the game, the fuck is the logic here? it said 7% android users in AMERICA not earth
also that link is from fucking UTAH an irrelevant state shit tier Education
>>27118138
They were popular but the anime reached a wider audience because you didn't have to have a gameboy. Think of all the poor kids who had tv and local channels watching Kids WB. They knew Pokemon through and through solely because of the show. Some people know Pokemon mostly from the trading cards and collecting them. Just because someone else's experience is different than yours doesn't make theirs less valid.
When's Nyantec gonna buy out the Pokemon Company?
>>27118100
>enjoys pokemon
>complains about something being the same shit every time
How many casuals are going to leave when Gen 4-7 pokemon come in?
did the servers just die again?
>>27125063
Like 12 since most of the casual will be gone by the time gen 3 drops anyway.
>>27125063
until this happens the hype for the game will have mostly died down. It will still have millions of players but not like today.
some assholes will complain and the hate for the new pokemon will rise again for a short period
>>27117864
>nooooo! stop enjoying things!
>>27117934
I wanna hug you seriously. I hope this shit will die soon fookin 2 faced twats follows what popular.
>>27118185
>>27118258
>>27118677
Kids these days
>>27117934
butthurt
>>27118441
>Each of these has a p2w microtransaction option because they need to make money from the secondary apps.
>>27117945
Can we put all of those people on those planes for 9/11 v.2?
>this thread
>>27121381
Lol wtf people actually nickname they're pokemons. Who cares, really.
>>27118757
Hard to see, it pales in comparison to the Go hype.
If they wanna keep normies playing they're going to have to make some changes to allow them to play the game less actively. Just having run In the background so you can collect steps would probably do it. As it is, only big pokemon fans and fans of ingress type games are going to stay with it.
>go brings Pokemon to it's peak of popularity
>but ruins the franchise into an unrecognizable shell of it's former self
Feels really bad man.This post will be a 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9.
>>27118820
>Increases are largely from RBY
We thought they couldn't pander any harder to genwunners in Gen 6...they're just going to keep remaking RBY at this point. How far away can "Red 2 and Blue 2" be at this point?
>>27119134
lol, those same people are only enjoying Pokemon GO because it has become a major fad. Once the fad dies out, like the Wii, these same normies will stop caring about Pokemon.
>>27124800
>He runs Roost.
Ditch Roost and run Brick Break. You beat Ttar, Heatran, and can generally get the sweep earlier, so long as you play it safe.
>>27126571
If you put the game on power save mode and flip your phone upside down, it'll keep counting steps. Need to fix vibrating for a new Pokemon in that mode though since it doesn't work
>>27121475
>Team Valor
Consider killing yourself at earliest convenience
>>27117599
The normies have taken one more thing from us. sad.
Soon everything that was cherished by this site and other niche internet communities will be commodified, socialized and mobilized. What isn't will simply stop being made or be criminalized. The internet is dying and turning into mobile social 2.0 bullshit bit by bit, fandom by fandom. I wonder how long will it be until chinese moot sells this site to facebook.
>>27127782
>Normies coming for the vidya.
>Normies coming for the chinese cartoons.
>Normies coming for cntroversial political views
>Normies that will never be satisfied, taking what little anon has to call his own.
At least they'll never take my fetishes. That shit will never go mainstream.
>>27117830
what's the big deal? the original games are still there.
>>27118230
DESU the end of my time playing games is probably going to arrive sometime after Sun/Moon comes out. I just can't deal with the "take this shitty unfinished half-game and pump money into it to play it and unlock the other half of the game" mobileshit infecting even non-games at this point.
I don't own or want a phone and I don't want to deal with the always-connected horseshit being shoved up everyone's asses. Handheld devices have always been my favorite, and once they're gone, I honestly don't have any interest in continuing to buy games. Phone controls are fucking shit and compatibility across devices is a joke, and phones are unsafe and easily stolen. I just don't want to deal with all of the bullshit anymore. I know I sound like a salty old man right now but I can't help how I feel, I just feel honestly disgusted watching all of this mobile garbage corrupting everything I used to like.
Go will probably make you buy expansion packs to add in the rest of the Pokedex because that's just what mobileshit does. It's just... sad.
>>27118115
What should they be doing instead, being wageslaves? Who gives a shit what people enjoy in their spare time?
>>27117599
WORLD WIDE RELEASE when?
>>27118323
No offense anon but people like you horrify me and make me want to stop waking up every morning. It's literally ALIEN to me the idea that people ACTUALLY LIKE mobileshit and they're not just tolerating it because it's the only option for a lot of people, let alone that they would actually WANT things that are actually good ported to phones and their shitty compatibility, terrible controls, and the fact that all your information can be sniffed out of a phone from across the room. It's just fucking horrifying. People can like what they like but I feel like I'm living in some zombie horror movie, except the zombies are phone users that literally DESIRE shittier experiences that put their security at risk.
I will never fucking get it.
>>27118441
Shit like this lowkey makes me hope my biopsy comes back malignant.
Anyone with a phone that doesn't have a gyroscope try emulating the gyro to make AR mode work? Half the appeal of the game is taking pictures of Pokemon in dumb real life locations so it's a bit lame if I can't even do that.
>>27127782
You are the definition of hipster.
>>27121381
You don't have to do that. It's not forcing you to. I still have my starter despite owning stronger ones.
You can catch and trasnfer Pokémon, but you can also keep your favorites. You can battle gyms and log in win records.
It's fun and it's free, and I really suggest everyone should try the game before complaining about it.
>>27128311
Not really. I don't give a shit about whether something's popular or cool or if i was on it before it was cool or whatever. If you don't see that the internet has massively changed from the pre-mobile days when anyone could have a website and it would actually be read to the post-mobile locked down days of facebboks and youtubes, you're blind. And it's not just me saying it, Tim Berners fucking Lee, the inventor of the worldwide web agrees. See:
http://www.decentralizedweb.net/
>>27118958
This is why I don't own mobile devices.
>>27117778
That's actually not wrong, these things always last 2-3 months before the next thing comes out and normies with their perpetual ADHD over fucking everything switch to the next fad. I'll give it a year since it's Pokemon and fads involving Pokemon always die slower with it having such a large autistic following, but with SM in November there's a good chance that we see it die then.
>>27117816
I think this is actually just the reinvention and rejuvenatio Pokemon needed.
Nintendo now knows that Pokemon still is that magic phenomenon that spreads and connects the entire world and now know that with the right reinvention their sales become millionfold.
Now we finally might be able to get off the rehash train and see some real effort and love put into Pokemon put again and habe it be your guaranteed cash cow that makes money anyway.
Sure it makes money anyway, but it is a difference if you make millions with rehashes or billions with genuinely new cool ideas
>>27128711
*and not have it be your guaranteed cashcow with minimal effort put into it
>having """""nostalgia"""""" be the reason you enjoy pokemon
Fuck off, Pokemon is great because of battles and that will never change. It is the spiritual successor to chess because it can add pieces forever. Chess is a dead game. Even Fairy Chess is less creative and still a competetive dead end.
ENJOY YOUR NEW TOYS. YOUR OLD ONES ARE STILL THERE, REE.
t. 29 year old who skipped everything since gen 2 but knows the value of moving forward.
>>27118438
Mons spawn faster than i can restock balls for there, I was up till 3 grinding
The best thing about this is it's spreading like wildfire. Not even remotely all people have been caught in yet. This is just the beginning. This is gonna explode.
Buy Nintendo stocks. The 50% raise is nothing yet.
