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The tech is the least important part of this whole thing. It's not successful because it's particularly innovative or a fancy piece of tech, it's a success bec
by intoverflow2 10y ago
The tech is the least important part of this whole thing.
It's not successful because it's particularly innovative or a fancy piece of tech, it's a success because it's pokemon.
- donkeyd 10y agoYet I've seen a lot of comments of people who really enjoy the augmented reality part of it, which was inherited largely from Ingress. Sure, the Pokemon IP is a huge part of the reason it took off. But the reason people actually like it is much bigger than that.
- jolux 10y agoYes except almost nobody plays Ingress and this game hasn't been out a month and it's about to pass Twitter in popularity...
- wmccullough 10y agoPokemon popularity != Twitter popularity. You wouldn't go around comparing the popularity of Doom to Facebook right? This comparison needs to disappear.
- Larrikin 10y agoFacebook is obviously more popular than Doom, but the article is comparing two Android apps which is a fair comparison
- treehau5 10y agoWe are comparing popularity of things people waste time on. In my eyes, they are all the same. It's the past-time market.
- Spivak 10y agoBecause of how people, including myself, are using the game I think comparison to social networks is more than fair. I have never seen more people out downtown wandering around and talking to strangers.
- distantsounds 10y agoI'd love to see where you get your numbers from considering Niantic doesn't publish active player stats for Ingress.
- jolux 10y agowell it's purely anecdotal I'll say but everyone I know is playing Pokémon Go right now and before only my really really "nerdy" friends played Ingress.
- jolux 10y agoif Ingress were anywhere near as popular their servers would have been down constantly and we would have heard about it being so popular...
- distantsounds 10y agoI take it you've never played Ingress before? Because they've had outages before, particularly during some of the larger events. Just because something doesn't get widespread news doesn't mean it's unpopular. Sure, Go is massively popular in its own right and to scale beats out Ingress but it's not like Ingress was some 2-bit game that nobody played. Half the mechanics of Go came from there, if Ingress sucked and was a failure they a) wouldn't have put the same features in Go, and b) probably wouldn't have even made Go. tl;dr Please stop shitting on something you have zero experience with.
- jolux 10y agoLook I'm not shitting on it. It's not orthogonal that you both saw large numbers of people playing it and that it wasn't as popular as Pokémon Go. I'm not saying it's a technological failure, I'm saying it didn't capture as many people's attention in the same way that Go did.
- EtienneK 10y agoStrange, 'cause most of the tips online say to turn off the AR stuff since it makes it more difficult to catch Pokemon. I don't use it at all anymore.
- funkaster 10y agoAR != Just the camera. It's the geolocation of stuff. The camera part is just a gimmick and pretty annoying.
- kalleboo 10y agoThe camera part may seem gimmicky and getting in the way of gameplay, but you can't deny it's a large part of the virality of the game - people posting photos of Pokemon sitting on toilets, park rangers posing with Pokemon with a joke about wildlife - it's marketing genius.