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I don't know! The company creates an alternate universe that needs a "Tricorder" to react with... What can go wrong? I could see Nintendo making phones now.

chongli 10y ago
I guess you didn't read the article. Nintendo didn't create this alternate universe, a third party did.
- Retric 10y ago
  And as a game it's terrible. What's compelling is how well it fits into the Pokemon story.
  - ZenoArrow 10y ago
    > "And as a game it's terrible." Niantic/Nintendo could easily update the game to make it more engaging at the point interest starts to wane. For example, updating the game so you could take control in gym battles.
    - gre 10y ago
      Easily? As an early Ingress player, experience shows that Niantic as a company are extermely slow to add features. The UI for dealing with gameplay have always been terrible. You had to drop items one by one in Ingress for years until they finally made a capsule item. There's no way to sort by pokemon type and no way to transfer all but a few of your weakest pokemon. They just seem not to care. Good luck making the game actually fun...
      - ZenoArrow 10y ago
        > "Easily? As an early Ingress player, experience shows that Niantic as a company are extermely slow to add features." Yes, easily. It's not as if the mechanics haven't already been worked out, they were there right from the Red/Green/Blue/Yellow era. All Niantic would be doing would be adding some buttons to the combat interface and adding some extra animations.
    - squeaky-clean 10y ago
      It took them over a year to add an an item-count label to your inventory in Ingress. These are the same people who made rendering the UI layer dependent on responses from a server. Most of the promised features of the game are missing, many core features don't work, and with each update they've only further broken the app. A competent company "could" probably add these features easily. I very much doubt Niantic can.
  - fit2rule 10y ago
    Its not a great game, but it is a great social app. So Nintendo could take out Apple, Facebook, and a few dozen other 'high profile stalwarts' in a lot of variant spaces, if it only did the one thing you expect it to do, but everyone seems to be surprised they "haven't been doing very well lately", which is: make good hardware.
- SCAQTony 10y ago
  I read as much as wired allowed me too. (EFF Privacy Badger) and I know they used a third party but the lifeforms are the equity of their "alternate universe"
  - chongli 10y ago
    The point of the article is that we shouldn't accept this game as evidence that Nintendo has "figured out" mobile and will now get back to being a successful rather than struggling, out-of-touch company. This game was developed more-or-less in its entirety by a third party who then approached Nintendo and negotiated a license.

chongli 10y ago

I guess you didn't read the article. Nintendo didn't create this alternate universe, a third party did.

Retric 10y ago
And as a game it's terrible. What's compelling is how well it fits into the Pokemon story.
- ZenoArrow 10y ago
  > "And as a game it's terrible." Niantic/Nintendo could easily update the game to make it more engaging at the point interest starts to wane. For example, updating the game so you could take control in gym battles.
  - gre 10y ago
    Easily? As an early Ingress player, experience shows that Niantic as a company are extermely slow to add features. The UI for dealing with gameplay have always been terrible. You had to drop items one by one in Ingress for years until they finally made a capsule item. There's no way to sort by pokemon type and no way to transfer all but a few of your weakest pokemon. They just seem not to care. Good luck making the game actually fun...
    - ZenoArrow 10y ago
      > "Easily? As an early Ingress player, experience shows that Niantic as a company are extermely slow to add features." Yes, easily. It's not as if the mechanics haven't already been worked out, they were there right from the Red/Green/Blue/Yellow era. All Niantic would be doing would be adding some buttons to the combat interface and adding some extra animations.
  - squeaky-clean 10y ago
    It took them over a year to add an an item-count label to your inventory in Ingress. These are the same people who made rendering the UI layer dependent on responses from a server. Most of the promised features of the game are missing, many core features don't work, and with each update they've only further broken the app. A competent company "could" probably add these features easily. I very much doubt Niantic can.
- fit2rule 10y ago
  Its not a great game, but it is a great social app. So Nintendo could take out Apple, Facebook, and a few dozen other 'high profile stalwarts' in a lot of variant spaces, if it only did the one thing you expect it to do, but everyone seems to be surprised they "haven't been doing very well lately", which is: make good hardware.
SCAQTony 10y ago
I read as much as wired allowed me too. (EFF Privacy Badger) and I know they used a third party but the lifeforms are the equity of their "alternate universe"
- chongli 10y ago
  The point of the article is that we shouldn't accept this game as evidence that Nintendo has "figured out" mobile and will now get back to being a successful rather than struggling, out-of-touch company. This game was developed more-or-less in its entirety by a third party who then approached Nintendo and negotiated a license.