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Will you actually go to places with other Go players?
Yes 50%  50%  [ 2 ]
No, I live in the middle of nowhere 25%  25%  [ 1 ]
No, my ASD won't let me 25%  25%  [ 1 ]
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xenocity
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10 Sep 2015, 1:43 am



The Pokemon Company (TPC) X Nintendo X Niantic (the studio behind Ingress game)

Pokemon Go is 2016 on iOS/Android (it's spin off don't worry).

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Future connectivity with future mainline games also promised


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Partnership with Ingress's Niantic Labs brings Pokemon to the real world.

A new mobile Pokémon game is under development by Niantic Labs in a partnership with The Pokemon Company, Nintendo, and Game Freak to bring an augmented reality game to mobile. A surprise press conference hosted by Pokemon president Tsunekazu Ishihara showed a sneak peak of the game.

Pokémon Go brings Pokémon to the real world, encouraging players to capture virtual Pokémon by visiting real life places. The game attempts to capture the feeling of looking for Pokémon while also getting people to explore the real world.

Niantic Labs was founded within Google in 2010 with the goal of encouraging people to explore the world in a fun way. Niantic was spun out of Google with the Alphabet reorganization last month. Niantic's first game, Ingress, is an augmented reality sci-fi game that has players visit real world locations as a member of one of two competing factions to take control of geographical areas. Pokémon's goal of bringing players together to explore and battle fits well with the Niantic mission.

As Pokémon Go is meant to get players to explore the world, an optional watch-like accessory called Pokémon Go Plus will be available, which has simple LED and vibration functions and pairs via Bluetooth Low Energy. The device activates to notify players to check their phones.

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This is one of the last projects the late Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata was involved with heavily.

Who's ready for an AR Pokemon MMO style spin off?


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10 Sep 2015, 2:57 am

Interesting, but it'd never work in my area.

There's nothing and nowhere around here, and much of the year, because this place is a useless hole in the ground, it's cold and/or frozen. I dont leave the house unless I have to, during that time. I refuse to deal with cold things unless I absolutely have to. Except dairy products, but that's the only exception.

And I cant imagine that exploring blank grass fields (tiny ones) would be all that interesting. Only things around here that arent dull farmlands and roads that dont go anywhere are crappy forest preserves, where the paths are overgrown and there isnt even hardly an illusion of being in a real forest, since there's always some damn housing subdivision visible through it. I've gone through all of them anyway; bloody boring places, way too small.



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10 Sep 2015, 6:39 am

I might, but i'm not sure yet.

Now if this were to integrate with an (affordable) google glass (or similar), then we're talking.
seeing the pokemon as you normally walk, draw out your phone as if it were a pokedex... my inner child is tingling



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10 Sep 2015, 9:37 pm

I'm personally pretty ecstatic about this game. I live near San Francisco, and there are plenty of nerds here that will be playing, too. Was going to post about it last night, actually.