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Pokemon Go has its largest active player base since Summer 2016, revenue up 174% year over year
- Thread starter Nirolak
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Upset enough to post an opinion on an internet forum? The audacity!
I'm honestly surprised that people really think there's a significant chance of Let's Go eclipsing or replacing the mainline series. If anything, Game Freak have been doing damage control with so many of their statements, reassuring people that the mainline series will still be here and that Let's Go isn't abandoning what they feel are the fundamentals of the franchise.
As someone who now plays a ton of Go and hasn't yet been able to get into the main series so much, I really think of Go and the mainline games as two very different things. Go doesn't in any way offer the traditional JRPG-esque experience you'd expect from Pokemon games, and a big part of Go's appeal is the social aspect of raiding and gym battles that you don't get in the same way from the handheld games. Go is very much a game in the world; Pokemon is much more self-contained. There's obviously lots of room for crossover, but you'll always have a distinct audience for each that I don't think will cannibalize each other too much.
It does, for the most part. The original game was so much more limited in scope that the main activity was really just trying to find specific pokemon in the wild. But because of how utterly random that process is unless you're using a tracker map (which have all been down for months now), it's really easy to burn out on trying to complete your dex that way.
The introduction of raids last summer gave people an incentive to actually talk to each other and organize, something they rarely had any reason to do at launch. It also provided a steady stream of desirable pokemon that were not only dex-fillers but useful in other raids and for gym battles to varying degrees.
More recently, weather, quests and trading have all introduced new ways to get pokemon you don't get to see very often, and on top of that Niantic has scheduled events so consistently that for months we haven't gone more than a week without a new event that changes what spawns in the wild, appears in quests and raids, or hatches in eggs.
The way you spot people playing Pokemon Go nowadays is to look for giant groups of people all tapping intently on their phones. They're not really running around chasing rare pokemon in the same way anymore.
As someone who now plays a ton of Go and hasn't yet been able to get into the main series so much, I really think of Go and the mainline games as two very different things. Go doesn't in any way offer the traditional JRPG-esque experience you'd expect from Pokemon games, and a big part of Go's appeal is the social aspect of raiding and gym battles that you don't get in the same way from the handheld games. Go is very much a game in the world; Pokemon is much more self-contained. There's obviously lots of room for crossover, but you'll always have a distinct audience for each that I don't think will cannibalize each other too much.
It does, for the most part. The original game was so much more limited in scope that the main activity was really just trying to find specific pokemon in the wild. But because of how utterly random that process is unless you're using a tracker map (which have all been down for months now), it's really easy to burn out on trying to complete your dex that way.
The introduction of raids last summer gave people an incentive to actually talk to each other and organize, something they rarely had any reason to do at launch. It also provided a steady stream of desirable pokemon that were not only dex-fillers but useful in other raids and for gym battles to varying degrees.
More recently, weather, quests and trading have all introduced new ways to get pokemon you don't get to see very often, and on top of that Niantic has scheduled events so consistently that for months we haven't gone more than a week without a new event that changes what spawns in the wild, appears in quests and raids, or hatches in eggs.
The way you spot people playing Pokemon Go nowadays is to look for giant groups of people all tapping intently on their phones. They're not really running around chasing rare pokemon in the same way anymore.
They've updated it massively.
Summer is the peak time for this game in general due to its nature of course, and last summer the game wasn't really in great shape. As of now though they've updated it with a whole host of new things like daily field research, mythical quests, legendaries, all sorts of weekly/monthly events, raids, ex-raids, etc.
It's a lot of fun now.
I'm playing. All my boys are back on too and friends just opened up my FB friends to the fact that I play which let me know a few of them play too. Gifting feels great.
I still believe Go popularity is because it's social, go out and catch Pokémon with friends. Grap your mobile and open the game to check anytime.
Not a 60$ console game
Go is popular despite Niantic awful game design not because of it.
Not a 60$ console game
Go is popular despite Niantic awful game design not because of it.
Also it's coming out in November.
You know, that time of the year that it isn't super sunny for the majority of countries in the world? You won't be going out and socializing with others playing Let's Go in November.
Some random Chinese kart racer being so high up bodes well for Mario Kart Tour. Could be Nintendos first mega mobile hit
I'm just going to transfer all the pokemon I want from Go to Let's Go later this year. The game doesn't work at all where I live, it's a 30 minute drive to the nearest city and my village (while it has fibre internet) doesn't have any pokestops. I used to live in Birmingham City Centre so caught myself a good load of 'mons while walking to/from work and on weekends with the dog so I have a good collection to transfer over.
But none of these things happened at the time the numbers in OP happened(which was may).
Lets go happened on the very last day of may, trading and friends happened this month, and summer just started this month too.
If anything, right now it should be much bigger, since all these things with positive effect on Go happened after May, or so late in may that their effect happened in June.
Nah, it's popular because the characters are very popular and the collection aspect is incredibly compelling. People don't care how you go about collecting/capturing Pokemon, they just have a desire to catch them all and round out their collection.
The majority of people I know who play it mostly play alone, outside of raid groups.
If Mario Kart Tour is even just half as successful as that "random Chinese Kart racer" its gonna make more money than MK Wii.
the whole southern hemisphere is since it's spring around here.
it's popular because
it's pokemon, even many none gamers know it to this day, but that wasn't enough, they needed a cool idea to grab the casual and that was going out and catching pokemons on a mobile phone
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it's free.
that's why it has like 700 million downloads.
To be fair, something like 70-80% of the people with Smartphones live in the Northern Hemisphere.
I agree that there are many more people in the southern hemispehere, but the money is and will be in the north for the forseeable future.
Just between europe and east asia you have half the worlds gdp and almost 3 billion people in the norther hemispehere.
I think it's well over 800 by now but yes, basically. I don't think the social aspect has much to do with it at all to be honest.
It's Pokemon, you can catch/collect them all, and it's free. That's really all the ingredients you need for massive success.
In company terms though, there's the Rich North/Poor South thing the whole world has.
If you want to make money, your going to focus your products more for the rich north than the poor south. And for something that wants you to go outside (like Go) Summer will be the time people will do that.
So Let's Go coming out in November isn't going to have that going outside social aspect Go has.
Neither you nor the person you are replying to have any definite proof that your theory or theirs is the "right" one.
Its most likely a mix of these two, but the only people who know for sure are the people making the game, since they have access to all the data (such as how many people only play alone, how many people only play with friends, and how much people spend on it).
If the people with access to that data(especially the cosumer behavior data) think that they can successfully sell a 60$ game based on Go, they probably have some data that suggests they can do that.
Unless you think that they just have no idea why people play their game, in which case nothing can convince you otherwise, and you would probably also just dismiss it if they then succeed in selling that 60$ game.
It's a good job that it's a console game meant to be played inside then?
not really, the social aspect was the thing that grabbed the casuals attention.
of course they'll will still get success without it but it won't be anywhere as big.
I do actually. I spend 90% of my time (barring sleeping) outside with people. I've not heard a single person talk about this game in an year. Last time was probably when an event for this game was taking place.
It has 145 million Monthly active users.
That means there is a literally 1/50 chance that someone you meet is actively playing the game.
Its of course vastly dependant on where you live, with people in rural regions being much more unlikely to meet other Go players.
My other half and I have just got back into it, and have bumped into a ton of people also playing in the wild. It's weird, it seems like a bunch of folks have really recently returned to the game.
My entire home town is still crazy over this game.
A few times we drove through downtown, and whenever the raids and special events were going on, there would be TONS of people out on their phones, walking together looking more fixated on them than usual.
I would've chalked it up as typical phone usage, but then I realized that a lot of these people were wearing Pokémon gear/Ash Ketchum hats.
The thirst is real people.
A few times we drove through downtown, and whenever the raids and special events were going on, there would be TONS of people out on their phones, walking together looking more fixated on them than usual.
I would've chalked it up as typical phone usage, but then I realized that a lot of these people were wearing Pokémon gear/Ash Ketchum hats.
The thirst is real people.
I really don't see that at all. The game was- up until now anyway- not at all a social experience. There were no friends lists until this past week. The game was all about filling out your Pokedex, gathering enough candies for evolutions, keeping control of gyms, all of that. All of that, barring the gym battles, was a single player experience. Even the gym battles were more often than not an independent/isolated experience, since it's unlikely the other trainers were still at the gym when you were battling their Pokemon. There really wasn't any sort of active cooperation/competition with others until raids came around.
There were "Pokewalk" social events, sure, but I really doubt the majority of the time people were playing they were doing so for the social aspect of it. Pokewalks were likely a fun little weekend excursion, then during the week people would go back to their normal work/school routines which involved catching a few Pokemon or Pokestops on the way to work/school or during their lunch break.
Yeah, they've been going hard on the events of late, giving far more changes and things to do. Just compare the Water Festivals and Adventure Weeks from 2017 to 2018
Oh, well then yeah obviously I agree with that haha
That's just not what I think of when I hear "social".
I would have said no until Pokemon and 3DS sales absolutely skyrocketed with the popularity of Go. I know that's a smaller investment, but my guess is that many of those people already want a Switch and just need that extra push to pick one up. That's purely based on the folks I personally know though.
Most Go players that I've encountered actually do plan on picking up a Switch if they don't have one already for Let's Go. At the very least they want the pokeball controller just to use as a Go+