Pokemon Go

[skyscraper101]

Here's what Chuck D of Public Enemy thinks about Pokemon Go

 

[skyscraper101]

There's a pikachu on Downing Street apparently.

Apparently the journos were all over it yesterday

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Says my device is not compatible!!!!! Why??!!

 

[Crispy]

What is your device?

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Nexus 7.

 

[mwgdrwg]

The current number of Pokemon is already over 700, with more to come when Sun/Moon is released.

 

[JimW]

Says my device is not compatible!!!!! Why??!!

OS not up to date?

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

OS not up to date?

Says it has to be over v4 I'm over v6

 

[JimW]

Says it has to be over v4 I'm over v6

That's me out of ideas then.

 

[mwgdrwg]

Says my device is not compatible!!!!! Why??!!

Probably because it has an Intel processor.

 

[editor]

It's already the biggest game in US history!

Pokémon Go already the biggest mobile game in U.S. history

 

[Crispy]

Nintendo were absolutely nuts waiting this long to get into mobile.

 

[mwgdrwg]

Nintendo were absolutely nuts waiting this long to get into mobile.

Seems like they have timed it perfectly!

 

[editor]

It's HuuuGE!

Pokémon Go becomes the biggest mobile game in US history after just a week

 

[Ranbay]

 

[Tony_LeaS]

Nintendo were absolutely nuts waiting this long to get into mobile.

To be fair a game like this has been in demand for years with the Pokémon franchise, and with Nintendo losing the console wars between Microsoft and Sony, this was the perfect time to release it.

 

[Crispy]

The time was right years ago

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

The thing with nintendo seems to be that half the management seems to still think that moving the focus away from hanafuda was a dangerous move


I kid.

 

[8den]

Nintendo were absolutely nuts waiting this long to get into mobile.

Cunning strategy, ignore the smartphone market for a decade, and then completely dominant it in a week.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

My local pub appears to be a "gym"

 

[8den]

My local pub appears to be a "gym"

I've been using that lie for years....

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Found my first one, on my local High St!

 

[souljacker]

I just went to a pokestop and there was nothing there. It seemed to suggest I needed to add a module of some sort. Thankfully, I found a wild Zubat when I was walking back so it wasn't a wasted trip.

 

[8den]

Thankfully, I found a wild Zubat when I was walking back so it wasn't a wasted trip.

I beg to differ.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

I beg to differ.

Said the person on an Internet foruum

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Thoughts from a couple of hours playing:

- It crashes quite a lot (iPhone 6s), usually on the AR bit
- It ruins your battery
- They need to make it work in the background so you don't have to have it open all the time. Alerts when you get near something etc. The incubation bit while you walk is daft - I need to walk 5km, with the app open all that time. By the time I've walked 5km the battery will be dead...

Good fun though

 

[bi0boy]

I'm level 3 now. It's quite hard to flick the balls at the flying ones, took me like 10 goes.

 

[fen_boy]

I'm level 3 now. It's quite hard to flick the balls at the flying ones, took me like 10 goes.

The smaller the circle when you flick it the better chance you have of catching it.

 

[moomoo]

My son just dashed out because someone has dropped a lure.

Err...

 

[fen_boy]

Thoughts from a couple of hours playing:

- It crashes quite a lot (iPhone 6s), usually on the AR bit
- It ruins your battery
- They need to make it work in the background so you don't have to have it open all the time. Alerts when you get near something etc. The incubation bit while you walk is daft - I need to walk 5km, with the app open all that time. By the time I've walked 5km the battery will be dead...

Good fun though

I send my kids out in the evening to hatch my eggs.