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Nintendo Shares Jump by 25% on 'Pokémon Go' Mobile Success
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When people have to crap on someone else for going out as a family. Some things never change.
And it's not better than them sitting at home? That's what you're saying? "you're just looking at your phones anyway, so you may as well just stay at home and not get out and walk."
My kids don't like veggies. So I mix them into other foods they do like so they'll eat them. I guess that makes me "sad". Better to let them not eat veggies at all.
True but is anyone surprised that this is bringing Nintendo more success?
I agree tho the latest Betas ( for those using them ) haven't been helpful on batter life
While I agree more + better battery would be welcomed in Apple devices I'm sure there are updates and improvements Nintendo/Niantic could make in future app updates to improve its battery consumption
Also in fairness to Apple although it sucks to do so there are literally a **** ton of portable/backup charging devices on the market and many can be found at decent or amazing prices if one is patient and savvy enough to shop around. My work requires a lot of use on my devices as "daily drivers" so I've built a collection of portable backup chargers most I got were under $10 the ones that were more topped out at $25 almost all can charge ANY iDevice at least 2x from 1% to 100% and aren't overly huge. Portable power devices seem to be dropping in price while increasing in capacity but not in size
Yeah... I was gonna say, isn't it FAR better that people play this game using the phone and data plan they're ALREADY paying for anyway, as an excuse to get outside and take walks to new places -- vs. spending $100+ on limited-purpose devices like "FitBit" to try to motivate them to exercise more?
The fitness band craze (if we're being realistic about it) has primarily driven a select group of people to walk more (usually when their employers sponsor some kind of steps tracking initiative). But it hasn't gotten whole families interested in going out together.
The fitness band craze (if we're being realistic about it) has primarily driven a select group of people to walk more (usually when their employers sponsor some kind of steps tracking initiative). But it hasn't gotten whole families interested in going out together.
Nintendo should give up on hardware and focus entirely on games. A modern Mario franchise alone could take a large share of mobile gaming. Even re-releasing their own standards on mobile with touch functionality could be a huge reward for effort return for them. Donkey Kong and such. MarioKart. Billions left on the table.
I'd like a pedometer feature that lets you earn food to feed the Pokemon. I had a Pikachu pedometer back in the late 90's that let me earn watts to feed Pikachu. Of course it was hard to earn watts trying to walk in a neighborhood with a lot of crime. I ended up shaking the pedometer to earn watts so Pikachu wouldn't shun me.
Sadly there are a lot of people like this in the world. I'm having to abstain from posting in another forum where folks just want to crap on anyone that enjoys something that they don't. Pokemon isn't my thing, but I'm sure it would be if I had played as a kid.
I tried it, then deleted it. I don't get the hype. The app doesn't work most of the time, it's constantly asking to be logged in when I already did that. The error of no GPS comes up all the time and the pokemon come to you if you stand in one spot and pretend to walk around. After a day of messing with it, was super easy to delete the app that is plagued with major issues.
While having legs does allow you to easily play the game, wheels are a better option as you collect pokemon quicker
The game uses the battery hard, as is to be expected from this sort of game. It's well beyond the normal use-case. Pokémon Go is based on Ingress, and they both (necessarily) are making constant hard use of the CPU, GPU, GPS, screen, and the cell data radio, for constant communication with the servers. Ingress players basically all end up using external batteries - and Ingress was Android-only to start with, it's not just iPhone players whose batteries drain fast, every phone succumbs to this, Android included.
I, too, would love to see iPhone batteries get a bit larger, but I wouldn't want them to quadruple in size (anyone want to buy a half-inch thick iPhone 8?) just to make Pokémon Go & Ingress work better, and that's approaching what you'd need, if you end up going out for many hours (my first week playing Ingress, I accidentally walked 45 miles). In this case, external batteries make sense. Like I said, all the Ingress players use them, including all the Android players who started before the iOS version came out - it isn't an iPhone-specific thing. Making the iPhone battery modestly bigger (or at least not any smaller) would be a good thing, but it won't solve the PoGo/Ingress battery problem (and we will probably see more games like this in the future).
Interestingly, when batteries come up, the iOS tech sites always seem to bring up Mophie near the top of the list - out of hundreds of Ingress players I've met, exactly one of them was using a Mophie case. Actual external batteries connected via USB cables are the clear way to go (don't have to carry it when you don't need it, you can recharge it separately, you can swap multiples easily if you need to, there are a lot of sizes to choose from, and the weight of the battery can go in a pocket instead of on the phone in your hand). I've seen almost every major brand of battery represented in the field, but Anker seems especially popular (and I've been quite happy with the several that I have).
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On the screen that shows all your Pokémon, there's a second tab that shows eggs you've collected. You tap them to put them in an incubator (you get an infinite-use one for free, and you can collect or purchase additional disposable ones). Then, you incubate the eggs (to turn them into more Pokémons) -- by walking. They're literally labeled as "2 KM", "5 KM" and "10 KM" eggs. So they do encourage a lot of walking. Also, there's an in-game badge that shows how far you've walked.
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(Pokémon Go is an evolutionary step up from Niantic's previous game, Ingress, and all the PokéStops and Gyms are Ingress portals.) Ingress players have been doing this for years.
One driving, and up to 3 or 4 agents hacking/smashing/linking portals. The strongest portals in Ingress (Level 8) take 8 agents to set up. Two carloads of agents can drive through an area and pull over at each portal... take over an area surprisingly fast. I'm told some bus routes work particularly well for this too, with their stop&go nature and relatively slow speed (over a certain speed, around 38mph - probably 60kph - "speed lock" kicks in and you can see the portals but can't interact with them), one can hack their way to/from work. But don't do exclusively car - walking and playing has a special charm to it.
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The PokéStops and Gyms are ALL Ingress portals - sign up for Ingress* (also completely free - as of the last year, there are some unnecessary goodies you can buy; before that there was no IAP at all), and then you can look at the Ingress Intel map (ingress.com/intel) and see what, if any, Ingress portals exist in the park (all PoGo locations are Ingress portals but not all Ingress portals are PoGo locations - it uses a subset of the Ingress data). The portals are nearly all submitted by Ingress agents (the company had to seed some to get the game started), so if Ingress Agents didn't feel safe enough to venture into the park, likely there aren't any portals there.
*: (if you do join Ingress, go Enlightened - we have more fun than the Resistance, and green is the color of Kermit and the Hulk, and Yoda - blue is the color of... smurfs.
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Didn't you know, families gathering together only counts if you're sitting around the fireplace, taking turns at the spinning wheel and churning butter.
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Yes, you already did that - and the servers crashed, again. We've all seen that. They're working on getting more server capacity online (and have paused rollout to more countries until they get it sorted). The constant logins will fade away before long. Their previous game, Ingress (upon which PoGo is largely based) only asks me to log back in a couple times a year.
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Why? Just because a screen is involved? People always need an excuse to go out.
Sometimes it's a movie, sometime it's a soccer game, sometimes it's just to see the stars, sometimes it's to play something, sometimes it's "just because", sometimes it's to play catch, and from now it's going to be "sometimes to catch a few Pokemon" also.
The first time I turned on my Pokemon Go thing I was on Bourbon St in New Orleans just yesterday, and I am from TX. I would've been there in any case, it made my walk more fun in a twisted way (well, it was before the real mess and fun begins!), and it made me chat with a couple of strangers. What's wrong with that?
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Yeah, who do these people think they are, spending time together and bonding with each other? They should be doing something more productive, like going to an internet forum and criticizing people they've never met.
With the Wii U being the lowest-selling Nintendo console in years, they need all the help they can get. Nobody can deny that, more money is always better for any company.
I don't know if these numbers are right. They were up 10% on Friday and 33% today.
[doublepost=1468282423][/doublepost]Wait, it was released in the U.S. before Japan?!
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I'd settle for scaling out the server side. It's a great game but the lack of capacity is getting really frustrating. I hope they add more quickly.
My husband is trying to hatch an egg. I've been his "significant other" for almost 30 years and that's a sentence I never thought I'd say about him. I can't seem to catch them once I find them. My husband caught me a Bulbasaur and my daughter caught me a rattata. We went to the grocery store and there were a few people besides us with this game on.
My husband is absolutely bonkers. I had to steer him across the parking lot so he wouldn't get run over. He was ranting about some pokemon stuff by a fountain or kiosk or something. Whatever. Fortunately when he's not with me he's with his best friend who will look after him.
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Was the only scenery you saw through your phones screen? Did you actually look away from your phone to see that there is a world out there to admire?
Oh good grief, more of this? "Let me sit over here, in front of my computer, and judge you and your family because you're clearly not living your lives right!"