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Pokémon GO Creator Niantic's New 'Peridot' Augmented Reality Pet Game Launching May 9

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Augmented reality gaming company Niantic today announced that its newest title, Peridot, is set to launch on Tuesday, May 9. Peridot is a virtual pet game, in the theme of Tamagotchi.

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Like Niantic's other games, this is an augmented reality title that encourages you to take your pets for walks in the real world, where you can collect items, discover new places, and take photos. The game syncs with the Health app to allow players to earn walking distance when the app is closed.
Discover the fantastical world of Peridot, a real-world adventure pet game where you raise, care for, and breed one-of-a-kind adorable creatures. After thousands of years of slumber, Peridots are waking to a vastly different world than the one they lived in, and need our help to protect them from extinction. Develop an emotional connection with these creatures while exploring the world together as you raise them to adulthood and work with other players to re-diversify their species.
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Players can raise a Peridot or "Dot" from birth, feeding them, playing with them, teaching them tricks, and otherwise meeting their needs to help them grow. In addition to exploring places in the real world and uncovering items, there is a breeding element that can unlock new Peridot archetypes.

Players can work together to expand the available Peridot species, and Niantic says there are "infinite possibilities of Peridot archetypes." The Dots themselves will be modeled after existing animals and mythological creatures, such as cheetahs, dragons, unicorns, and more.


Niantic first announced Peridot last spring, so the game has been in development for more than a year. Niantic is best known for its development of Pokémon GO, but the company also developed Ingress and the now defunct Harry Potter: Wizards Unite game that did not ultimately prove to be popular with users. Harry Potter: Wizards Unite was shut down on January 31, 2022.

iPhone and iPad users who are interested in Peridot can pre-register for it on the App Store as of today. The game is free to download, but there will be "Gemstones" as a purchasable in-app currency. [Direct Link]

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Probably gonna be another flop. Their one and only game that seems to have been successful is Pokémon Go. I still play it from time to time, but I've never been interested in their other games.
 
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matthew12 said:
Probably gonna be another flop. Their one and only game that seems to have been successful is Pokémon Go. I still play it from time to time, but I've never been interested in their other games.
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Yes, its flop right away but true gem in games from Niantic is Ingress. It's predecessor to game for kids called Pokemon Go.
 
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"After thousands of years of slumber, Peridots are waking"​

Does anyone else find that to be a terrifying sentence? I mean, if you stripped away all the pastels and sunshine in the marketing and were told that a mysterious species was being reanimated after millennia, would you go out and pet them or call in an airstrike?
 
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Analog Kid said:
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"After thousands of years of slumber, Peridots are waking"​

Does anyone else find that to be a terrifying sentence? I mean, if you stripped away all the pastels and sunshine in the marketing and were told that a mysterious species was being reanimated after millennia, would you go out and pet them or call in an airstrike?
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This makes me think that a zombie apocalypse AR game might have more success than this tamagotchi-themed game.
 
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What's the point of AR if you need to do through your phone? Unless they are counting on building up the game in preparation for the AR goggles.
 
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matthew12 said:
Probably gonna be another flop. Their one and only game that seems to have been successful is Pokémon Go. I still play it from time to time, but I've never been interested in their other games.
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Wizards Unite so far has been the only "flop". I can't imagine their "Pikmin" and "NBA All-World" games are widely adopted either and will probably be shut down sooner than later. Pikmin may have a bit more longevity since it has Nintendo's backing.

Only reason why Niantic is still afloat and not cut off from their funding is that they are using the Pokemon intellectual property that is hugely followed by millions of people worldwide for one of their games. I highly doubt Ingress has that many players either.
 
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Yes, its flop right away but true gem in games from Niantic is Ingress. It's predecessor to game for kids called Pokemon Go.
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I used to love Ingress, but living in the suburbs made it very challenging. It was perfect for a city or campus though.
 
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