If people pay $200 for a ticket to be able to go into a park to see a gym ( you'd have to be like AT the statue) or to collect a few items from a poke stop I really don't think Disney is going to care. Disney profits if somebody goes and sits at a statue or if somebody goes and rides every ride. The person playing Pokemon is probably more profitable since they'll probably buy more food and beverages while walking everywhere.
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'Pokémon Go' Debuts in Italy, Spain, and Portugal as Rollout Continues
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If people pay $200 for a ticket to be able to go into a park to see a gym ( you'd have to be like AT the statue) or to collect a few items from a poke stop I really don't think Disney is going to care. Disney profits if somebody goes and sits at a statue or if somebody goes and rides every ride. The person playing Pokemon is probably more profitable since they'll probably buy more food and beverages while walking everywhere.
[doublepost=1468838017][/doublepost]I LIVE in Italy and I've been playing Pokémon Go for about a week now. It has Italian landmarks, even minor, included, although it often freezes when capturing and I have to quit and reboot the app.
The European rollout of smash hit Pokémon Go continued today with App Store launches in Italy, Spain, and Portugal, joining the U.K. and Germany where the game debuted in the last couple of days.
In the U.S. alone, players on iOS are spending about $1.6 million each day on in-app transactions within the game, according to data from app analytics firm Sensor Tower. Of those IAPs, 30 percent of the revenue earned goes straight in Apple's pockets.
Nintendo shares jumped nearly 10 percent to a six-year high on Friday as the retro-styled title became more popular than Twitter just one week after its launch in the U.S., Australia and New Zealand.
"When you look at the way it's becoming a social phenomenon in the U.S., the rally is understandable even though it's not clear yet how much it will boost profits," markets analyst Toshiyuki Kanayama told Reuters.
"People still remember the time when the Wii and the DS became a hit and boosted Nintendo's shares," he added, referring to the company's popular game consoles - one of which Nintendo has announced will be returning to stores around the world on November 11 in the form of the 'NES Classic Mini'.
Meanwhile, in yet another Pokémon-related incident, two men fell down a 75ft cliff in Encinitas, California, yesterday as they tried to catch nearby virtual creatures. One of the men fell 50ft while the other reportedly fell all the way to the beach below.
According to FOX affiliate local news, rescue crews used a rope to reach one of the men, but despite the large fall neither of them suffered serious injuries.
Direct link to Pokémon Go on the Spain App Store.
Direct link to Pokémon Go on the Italy App Store.
Direct link to Pokémon Go on the Portugal App Store.
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Yep, everyone is having to quit/restart the app frequently,
Niantic's previous game is Ingress, a sort of SciFi-themed capture-the-flag/connect-the-dots game of acquiring and holding territory, played in realtime, 24/7, for the past three or so years. All the locations used in Ingress (called Portals) are landmarks of one sort or another (could be a cathedral, could be a decorated mailbox, or anything in between). The vast majority of these Portals were submitted, in-game, to Niantic, by Ingress players; they had a feature (currently inactive) where you could identify a suitable new landmark, take a picture, give it a name and sometimes a description, and that information, along with the GPS coordinates, would be uploaded to Niantic, and, if approved, would become an Ingress Portal.
Why am I telling you all this? Because every PokéStop and Gym in Pokémon Go is an Ingress Portal, using the name, location, and picture submitted by an Ingress player. Across the entire world. That's why Pokémon Go has Italian landmarks (as well as landmarks in every other country). Thank an Ingress player for that.
There are two arguments about Geo-tagged Augmented Reality (a.k.a. GPS-AR) in resorts and parks. One is what you presented. That is, it attracts more people to the venue thus increasing their revenue.
The other side are those that own a venue and have a self-imposed obligation to "facilitate an experience" picking and choosing what is offered where a GPS-AR game is not welcome.
Some of this will come to a full head next month during Burning Man in Black Rock City, NV. Supposedly, there are Pokèstops and Gyms placed all over the venue with The Man himself set up as the center-most gym. Will the mayhem that is The Burn welcome hundreds of Pokemon Go players running all over he place with the phones?
(By the way, "US" is capitalized because it's an abbreviation, while "Asia" is a proper noun - capitalizing it is just shouting.)
I expect the two of you to come back here in two weeks and report in on what has transpired.
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