Apple: Pokemon Go Sets Record For Most Downloads In Its First Week (techcrunch.com) 35
An anonymous reader writes: Apple has confirmed to TechCrunch that Pokemon Go has attracted more downloads in the App Store during its first week than any other app in App Store history. What's even more surprisingly is that the app was only available in a few countries at the time -- it initially launched in New Zealand, Australia and the U.S. Apple didn't provide the number of downloads, but one can assume it's well into the millions. Pokemon Go is expected to become even more popular as it becomes available in more countries -- the game just launched in Japan today. With millions of downloads in the first week alone, Pokemon Go is expected to generate large sums of money for Apple. The Guardian is reporting that Apple will "rake in $3 billion in revenue from Pokemon Go in the next one to two years as gamers buy 'PokeCoins' from its app store."
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Wha.... really? http://www.bluestacks.com/apps... [bluestacks.com] runs fine on windows with an emulator.
Oh you mean windows phone can those run programs yet or does it still just look similar to windows?
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Expecting the banhammer to come down hard on those doing GPS spoofing with Pokemon Go running in an emulator, currently they're getting softbans if they move about too far
Apple? (Score:1)
How did Apple get into the Pokemon business?
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well, they publish pokemon go on the iphone, like any other app. And they take a cut of any app sold, and of any in-app purchase on their store.
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By accident. Tim Cook misheard it as "poke a man".
W00t! (Score:2)
I'm always excited for our daily Pokemon Go submission. I guess my only question is: How can I buy Pokecoins with Bitcoins? That would be a slashdot wet dream, wouldn't it? We'd have to post about that like 3 times a day--possibly even more than about Hillary and Trump!
I kid, I kid. I actually like the game, and I'm glad for Nintendo (I've owned every console of theirs from the beginning). My only disappointment about the whole thing was not buying Nintendo stock when it was low, as the game was coming out.
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Get a time machine. ;)
Almost perfect (Score:2)
Just a few modifications and that game would be perfect:
- remove the part that forces you to physically walk around
- make it work on PC and consoles
- replace pokemons with criminals and wild beasts
- give the world a post-apocalyptic flavor
- allow you to loot weapons and bottle caps from the corpses of your ennemies
- give you companions that won't abandon you no matter how often you shoot at them with a quad missile launcher
For added fun the game could send you kill the same ennemies over and over and make y
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Hehehehe, nice. Although I play Fallout 4 mostly in stealth and without companions (or use of the power-armor).
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That's how civilizations work. Layers upon layers of dead people who thought they knew better than the previous layer and never saw the next one coming.
Stahp (Score:2)
Nuke it from space.
Only Apps App Appers! (Score:2)
Where is that "APPS!" guy when you need him?
Customers exploited & viewed as WHALES is news (Score:2)
In the mobile space customers who use IAP (In-App-Purchases) are known as whales.
* Who Are the 'Whales' Driving Free-to-Play Gaming? You'd Be Surprised [kotaku.com]
* Forbes: Why It's Scary When 0.15% Mobile Gamers Bring In 50% Of The Revenue [forbes.com]
This exploitation is nothing more then a legalized form of gambling. In other news gambling is for those that suck at math.
But go ahead and keep hijacking the term "free" and making headlines about how gambling makes money.
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This is not gambling. Money goes in, but doesn't come out.
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I spent five bucks on Pokeballs. I've had more than five hours of fun. It beats going to the movies.
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Talk about distracted driving (Score:2)
Ask them to please show some decency and stop playing while
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I used to be able to easily spot the drunks on the road before smartphones. None of them are "just fine driving like this." They're all worse than your average drunk and should be treated the same way.
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Just hope it stays that way.
Pokemon No (Score:1)
Apparently much of the supposedly adults of the western world have now become so infantilized that they will focus incredible energies on a game that would rightfully only be targeted at smaller children. This hype explains a lot and not much of it is good.
Pretty fun game (Score:2)