My cousins played Pokémon in elementary school. They were obsessed. They invited me to play a couple games when I visited them (I had no idea which Pokémons wer

My cousins played Pokémon in elementary school. They were obsessed. They invited me to play a couple games when I visited them (I had no idea which Pokémons were good). Now, they are graduating college. It is an entire generation that was raised on Pokémon, now starting their millenial lives. It's probably the most interesting thing that has happened in games since Minecraft. Mobile games were stuck on Bejeweled clones or even more upmarket stuff like Clash of Clans. This almost guarantees a shift in development dollars towards AR. Seeing Pokémon Go players in person is a little disconcerting though. They are more 'out of it' than usual, where 'out of it' baseline is the person texting while walking down the street.