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But the Pokémon Go economy also has some real downsides. One has to do with regional inequality. Nintendo and its partners are rumored to be earning more
by caminante 10y ago
But the Pokémon Go economy also has some real downsides. One
has to do with regional inequality. Nintendo and its partners
are rumored to be earning more than $1 million per day from
Pokémon Go. That money is flowing away from small and medium
cities and toward big technology companies concentrated in big cities.
The author's argument's VERY short on providing facts.
- sp332 10y agoAre you questioning the part of the article you quoted? Because I don't see it being very controversial. The companies getting money are Niantic and the Pokemon Company (which is part-owned by Nintendo). And I guess Google who takes a cut of in-app purchases.
- fixermark 10y agoGoogle makes its money on the Cloud side --- Niantic's running its infrastructure on Google Cloud. https://www.nianticlabs.com/jobs/ https://www.nianticlabs.com/jobs/
- bsenftner 10y agoAren't they a division of Google?
- fixermark 10y agoNot since last year. Google is still invested, but they're independent. http://fortune.com/2015/08/13/googles-niantic-labs-spins-off/ http://fortune.com/2015/08/13/googles-niantic-labs-spins-off...
- dkuntz2 10y agoI guess that's technically true, but aren't they still part of Alphabet, which means it's still very much related to Google, even if they're managed independently.
- fixermark 10y agoNo. https://www.engadget.com/2015/08/12/niantic-labs-splitting-from-google/ https://www.engadget.com/2015/08/12/niantic-labs-splitting-f...
- krakensden 10y agoIt is true, but he has written about housing before, and is mostly a tech journalist. So a reader familiar with him won't need a cite. Definitely a long term customer vs new customer onboarding problem. That said, Vox used to be super into building issue explainers and linking them to articles.