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Released in UK
Developer(s) | Niantic |
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Initial release | July 6, 2016 |
Operating system | iOS, Android |
Available in | 6 languages |
List of languages English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish | |
Type | Augmented reality |
License | Freemium |
Website | pokemongo |
The Official Twitter tweeted that Pokemon Go is released in UK — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.81.30.16 (talk) 08:48, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
- Because of this and the release in Germany a day ago, should we just go with July 13, 2016, as the EU release in the infobox? The vgrelease documentation says that UK dates in the infobox "should only be used if a release is exclusive to that country or there is a large difference in the release date. In most cases use first EU date instead of UK.", which just happened here. ~ Dissident93 (talk) 10:33, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
- I'd assume so, yes. Anarchyte (work | talk) 10:42, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
- I think that works fine, yeah. Additionally, a {{refn}} could be used to explain the staggered release despite the infobox showing the date for the earliest one. ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 10:46, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
Done Anarchyte (work | talk) 11:12, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
- As another option, we could use the software infobox, as this isn't really a traditional game. It would solve the issue of the release date, and have other relevant info that the video game one doesn't, such as support for languages and the release version. I added an example on the right, thoughts? Just adding this in case the current way remains controversial (it was at first). ~ Dissident93 (talk) 11:16, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
- I think that works fine, yeah. Additionally, a {{refn}} could be used to explain the staggered release despite the infobox showing the date for the earliest one. ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 10:46, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
- I'd assume so, yes. Anarchyte (work | talk) 10:42, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
(edit conflict) We can collapse the release dates, if that's what you wanted to achieve. IMO the note does enough. To collapse it, use:
{{Collapsible list
| title = {{Video game release||July 6, 2016}}
| titlestyle = font-weight:normal;background:transparent;text-align:left;
| {{vgrelease new|AUS|July 6, 2016|US|July 6, 2016|EU|July 13, 2016|JP|July 2016|CAN|July 2016}}
}}
Anarchyte (work | talk) 11:28, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
- Yeah, that's possible too. We would still have to add Canada and Japan (we normally wouldn't add Japan for non-Japansed developed games. However, for such a globally popular game, and one that has its origins in Japan, we should make an exception). So when it's finally released worldwide, that's five different regions represented. I edited your example to show what it would look like when complete. ~ Dissident93 (talk) 11:50, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
- Plus the note, that'll need to be included somewhere.
{{refn|group=note|name=EU Release|''Pokémon Go'' was released at different dates in [[Europe]]. It was first released in Germany on July 13, 2016 and then in the United Kingdom on July 14.}}
Anarchyte (work | talk) 12:20, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
- Plus the note, that'll need to be included somewhere.
- With the staggered roll out playing havoc with typical infobox convention here, might I suggest we list the earliest date only, and include a jump link to the release section, where we can put a more verbose table of regions and dates. -- ferret (talk) 20:15, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
- Agreed, we should be using the collapsible list template now. ~ Dissident93 (talk) 23:51, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
Page views
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- Wow, the article was getting averages of 5k views a day just a week ago. Pretty amazing to see how much it has exploded since, and I don't think anybody anticipated it. ~ Dissident93 (talk) 10:28, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
- Are you surprised, given how many people are playing the game? It's huge. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 02:55, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
- I mean I don't think anybody, even the developers, anticipated the game being this popular this quickly (and therefore the amount of pageviews here). The amount of views this article got in May was below 5 per day, assuming it's not glitched. ~ Dissident93 (talk) 03:00, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
- The game did drop without any warning so there was no build up to it for there to be many page views prior to release (but after the initial announcement last year). ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 03:04, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
- Which still kind of proves the point in that there was very little hype before the game was released (compare this instead to Overwatch), but exploded in popularity once it did last week. To go from 5 views a day to 800,000 in pretty much a month might be something Wikipedia has never seen, or least, very rarely. ~ Dissident93 (talk) 03:11, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
- Are you surprised, given how many people are playing the game? It's huge. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 02:55, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
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Here's the last 6 months for Overwatch (video game) for comparison. -- Anarchyte (work | talk) 06:33, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
Can now add Pokemon GO locations
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Please add the following:
As of 14 July, players can now submit new locations for inclusion in Pokemon GO.[1]
References
- ^ Frank, Allegra (14 July 2016). "Pokémon Go players can now submit PokéStop, gym location requests". Polygon.com. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
Thank you. --211.30.17.74 (talk) 04:16, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
GA in a couple months?
When the article dies down in popularity and edit rate, this wouldn't be too hard to get up to GA. The references are there, all that needs to be done is write it out. I'd be willing to say it's almost there now, but it'd probably fail due to it being released last week and the article isn't stable. Anarchyte (work | talk) 11:58, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
- Any word on if it will become unprotected before then? :) --211.30.17.74 (talk) 00:36, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
- The current semi-protection expires on July 28. ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 00:38, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks for the heads-up. --211.30.17.74 (talk) 00:47, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
- The current semi-protection expires on July 28. ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 00:38, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
- I believe the article right now will become unprotected in about two weeks, but yesterday when the last protection expired, there was tons of immediate vandalism and it was reprotected. You should consider registering an account and getting more acquainted with WP generally if you are interested in editing these kinds of articles. TimothyJosephWood 00:39, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
- 'These kinds of articles'... do you mean popular articles? video game articles? Is there any chance that pending changes might be trialled at some point rather than semi-protection? I have considered registering an account, but I don't want to make that level of commitment at this time. --211.30.17.74 (talk) 00:47, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
- There's no real commitment in making an account fwiw. All that's required is an email address (it can be a throwaway one for all we know). You actually have more security with one than without since then no one can readily see IP and trace it. ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 00:49, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
- I meant popular ones. They are more likely to need protection due to their popularity. Also, as Cyclone said above, an account can be more secure. Right now I can see your IP and can almost certainly tell in about 30 seconds where you are and what organization owns your address if it's static. TimothyJosephWood 00:51, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
- Wait, I take that back. Geolocate must be wrong. Not a single thing you've typed has been upside down. TimothyJosephWood 00:53, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
- (edit conflict)'These kinds of articles' likely refers to popular video game articles. Many video games articles eventually end up with year+ long or even indefinite protection due to reoccurring vandalism. The more popular or visible the game in culture, the more likelihood that the vandalism never quite goes away. At the current level of activity the article is seeing, I believe PC would be too big of a burden for reviewers (I am a reviewer and watching, though I am not making any substantial edits), but in a few weeks it may be possible to give it a try. -- ferret (talk) 00:55, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
- 'These kinds of articles'... do you mean popular articles? video game articles? Is there any chance that pending changes might be trialled at some point rather than semi-protection? I have considered registering an account, but I don't want to make that level of commitment at this time. --211.30.17.74 (talk) 00:47, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
- I believe the article right now will become unprotected in about two weeks, but yesterday when the last protection expired, there was tons of immediate vandalism and it was reprotected. You should consider registering an account and getting more acquainted with WP generally if you are interested in editing these kinds of articles. TimothyJosephWood 00:39, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
Dang, @Ferret:. Thanks for the info about the protection situation. I hope that pending changes will be trialled in the future. --211.30.17.74 (talk) 01:08, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
- You could always ask on WP:RFPP to see if it'll get lowered. It probably won't happen but it could be worth a shot. If not, you can always use the {{edit semi protected}} template. Anarchyte (work | talk) 01:46, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks, maybe when the current batch of protection is up I'll try that. I have been making requests on the talk page, but some of the stuff I want to do is a bit fiddly to describe - like consolidating the Dean Takahashi VentureBeat article's references into an a,b,c format. --211.30.17.74 (talk) 02:03, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
- The depth of scholarship and the potential for scholarship is something to consider before considering Pokemon GO as a special page. I expect that there will be scholarly, peer-reviewed articles and book chapters about Pokemon GO. There has been for Ingress, and also for Zombies, Run! (a 2012 exergame). Would a rush to GA for Pokemon GO mean that potential scholarly sources are 'crowded out', or not integrated as well, down the track? --211.30.17.74 (talk) 06:03, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
Pokemon Go Plus
It seems like the Pokemon Go Plus doesn't fit under development, though I also don't think there's enough information on it to pull it out as its own article... thoughts? Jamesmcmahon0 (talk) 16:03, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
- I've moved it to the gameplay section since it's more integrated with that aspect of the game. ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 18:10, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
Ishihara and wife were Ingress players
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Please add the following in the development section:
According to Hanke, the partnership with Ingress was "largely driven by" Ishihara and the Pokemon Company. Ishihara and his wife played Ingress, seeing it as a "perfect match" for Pokemon.[1]
Thank you. --211.30.17.74 (talk) 01:56, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
References
- ^ Takahashi, Dean (December 16, 2015). "How Pokémon Go will benefit from Niantic's lessons from Ingress on location-based game design". VentureBeat. Retrieved June 16, 2016.
Done But rewrote it as "Ishihara had been a big fan of developer Niantic's previous augmented reality game, Ingress, and saw the game's concept as a perfect match for the Pokémon series" and fixed the flow of the section in conjunction. ~ Dissident93 (talk) 06:29, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
Yelp and PokeStops?
Is it relevant here that Yelp is asking its users about Pokestops, as another facet of the 'pokemon go driving local business' theme? It has been reported in multiple sources: http://www.cnet.com/news/yelp-is-now-asking-users-about-nearby-pokestops/ --211.30.17.74 (talk) 02:23, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
City Spirit Go - Chinese clone
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Please add information about City Spirit Go, a Chinese clone of Pokemon Go, to the article.
In China, Google services are banned by the Great Firewall. Players of Pokemon GO in China have bought IDs for the Australian Apple Store, used a virtual private network to use Google services, and used a GPS spoofer because there are no Pokemon to catch in China. A clone app called "City Spirit Go" is available in China, and was released shortly after Pokemon GO's beta test in Japan.[1]
Thank you. --211.30.17.74 (talk) 04:48, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
Done Anarchyte (work | talk) 04:52, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
Image of Go Plus
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Please add this image of a Go Plus to the article. It is available under a CC BY license on Flickr, and so should be appropriate for inclusion. --211.30.17.74 (talk) 06:08, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
- I'll add it in a bit. ~ Dissident93 (talk) 06:18, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
- @Dissident93: Try to crop it so that not too much of the table shows. Anarchyte (work | talk) 06:25, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
- Added the picture (and cropped), but couldn't find a good caption and place for it. So do what you wish with it. ~ Dissident93 (talk) 07:48, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
- I'll see what I can do. Anarchyte (work | talk) 07:50, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks! Could the image please be moved to the Wiki commons image repository? That way it could easily be used on all the non-English Pokemon Go articles. --211.30.17.74 (talk) 01:02, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
- Somebody else did, and it seems it's being used in other articles now. ~ Dissident93 (talk) 02:48, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks! Could the image please be moved to the Wiki commons image repository? That way it could easily be used on all the non-English Pokemon Go articles. --211.30.17.74 (talk) 01:02, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
- I'll see what I can do. Anarchyte (work | talk) 07:50, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
- Added the picture (and cropped), but couldn't find a good caption and place for it. So do what you wish with it. ~ Dissident93 (talk) 07:48, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
- @Dissident93: Try to crop it so that not too much of the table shows. Anarchyte (work | talk) 06:25, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
Link to Pokemon specific Wiki
When reading the article I realised that there's no link to the full Pokemon GO Wiki. This could be very helpful for people looking for more specific information. --Pokedigtrio (talk) 10:40, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
- Per WP:ELNO #12, we don't normally add external Wikis, unless they are officially backed by the developers or are used by other reliable sources or something. So in this case, it shouldn't be added. ~ Dissident93 (talk) 10:46, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
Pokemon Go
Will it be successful in a country like India? With soo much traffic and lack of infrastructure. Gaju77777777 (talk) 13:57, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
Category suggestion
We should add Category:Video games containing microtransactions — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.64.26.140 (talk) 14:15, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
Done -- ferret (talk) 14:33, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
Accidents
There should be a accident section listing all the incidents that Pokemon go caused similar to the aviation pages (example on the b737 page) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:304:CE75:E40:5DE:2928:C10D:233D (talk) 14:42, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
- That would probably fall under WP:GAMETRIVIA. There is already a "controversies" section. Anarchyte (work | talk) 01:11, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
Photo of Pokemon GO being used as advertising
I think this article would be greatly enhanced by a photo of a business using Pokemon GO tie-ins as advertising. this is the only free example I've seen thus far, though and it doesn't seem like the clearest example. Something like this one would be perfect, if it was under a free license. --211.30.17.74 (talk) 04:39, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
- I tell a lie, here's another free one. --211.30.17.74 (talk) 04:47, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
- Added the one in Portsmouth to the article, thanks for linking it! ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 12:22, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
- The pictures in the article look amazing! --211.30.17.74 (talk) 00:51, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
- Added the one in Portsmouth to the article, thanks for linking it! ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 12:22, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
technical issues
Pokemon Go never had access to drive/gmail/calendar/etc; was a display bug. The quote is taken out of context too.
We recently discovered that the Pokémon GO account creation process on iOS erroneously requests full access permission for the user’s Google account. However, Pokémon GO only accesses basic Google profile information (specifically, your User ID and email address) and no other Google account information is or has been accessed or collected. Once we became aware of this error, we began working on a client-side fix to request permission for only basic Google profile information, in line with the data that we actually access. Google has verified that no other information has been received or accessed by Pokémon GO or Niantic. Google will soon reduce Pokémon GO’s permission to only the basic profile data that Pokémon GO needs, and users do not need to take any actions themselves.
interview with the person where this all start; sounds like he jumped the gun and other security experts say it isn't true -http://gizmodo.com/can-pokemon-go-really-read-all-your-emails-1783479136
summed it up as overblown/easy clickbait -https://www.engadget.com/2016/07/15/dont-believe-the-pokemon-go-privacy-hype/
66.36.144.7 (talk) 09:59, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
- Expanded the section with relevant information. If there's anything pertinent that I accidentally left out, just drop another message. ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 13:15, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
Just for fun...
... any user from Wikipedia who play 'Pokemon Go' are free to use the template I recently made. I do not know if this is okay since this is the first time I made a userbox. Go to: User:Typhoon2013/PokeGo if you want one to be put up in your user page. Have a great day catching some pokemon! :) Typhoon2013 (talk) 12:20, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
- Nice templates, one thing though. It's hard to read the text on the Mystic one.
Team Instinct - No shelter from the stormAnarchyte (work | talk) 13:02, 17 July 2016 (UTC)- @Typhoon2013: Unfortunately you are not allowed to use the logo in the userboxes per WP:NFCC#9. – nyuszika7h (talk) 13:09, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
- If you sort out the image problem, you can add these to Wikipedia:Userboxes/Games/Video games. TimothyJosephWood 13:15, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
- I replaced the image and also fixed WP:COLOR contrast issues. Had to make the red one a bit darker to be AAA compliant. nyuszika7h (talk) 13:35, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
- I've added them to te list of VG userboxes. TimothyJosephWood 14:31, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks for your responses. @Nyuszika7H: For the image, ok I understand. At first I was thinking to make one with the Team Logo in the background and the leader in the front. For the Mystic one, what @Anarchyte: said, if it's pretty hard to see, then what color should the text be?? Will white be good?? And Nyuszika7H, yeah I was thinking to make a dark-reddish color but I could not find it/what it is. I'll be sorting this out. Typhoon2013 (talk) 21:04, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
- @Typhoon2013: The colors are fine now, I've fixed them already. nyuszika7h (talk) 21:12, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
- @Nyuszika7H: Oh, thank you so much!! I just saw it, especially for the dark-reddish color :)... Now I'm thinking to change the image, of what I said in my recent message. Typhoon2013 (talk) 21:14, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
- @Typhoon2013: The colors are fine now, I've fixed them already. nyuszika7h (talk) 21:12, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
- I replaced the image and also fixed WP:COLOR contrast issues. Had to make the red one a bit darker to be AAA compliant. nyuszika7h (talk) 13:35, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
- If you sort out the image problem, you can add these to Wikipedia:Userboxes/Games/Video games. TimothyJosephWood 13:15, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
- @Typhoon2013: Unfortunately you are not allowed to use the logo in the userboxes per WP:NFCC#9. – nyuszika7h (talk) 13:09, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
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please change steaming to streaming on the fourth paragraph of "Community and cultural impact"
There's a typo somewhere (talk) 12:35, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
Done; fixed the typo. ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 12:38, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
Commons
In article there are a lot of images. What do you think about Pokemon Go on Wikimedia commons? Dawid2009 (talk) 13:31, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
- There's a category for it on the commons already. There's not much else there aside from duplicates or alternative versions to what's presented in the article. ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 13:34, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
Pokemon Go and religion
I found two interesing sources: [1], and [2] Dawid2009 (talk) 14:27, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
- Was this a fatwa? kencf0618 (talk) 20:35, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
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Pokémon Go is a free-to-play location-based augmented reality mobile game developed and published by Niantic. It was released in July 2016 for iOS and Android devices. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pokemon-go/id1094591345?mt=8
Publisher(s) Niantic Inc.
2601:641:C080:49C0:75BD:DA29:1737:36F8 (talk) 19:02, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
Not done: The Pokemon Company is the publisher, per reliable sources such as Eurogamer. -- ferret (talk) 19:13, 17 July 2016 (UTC) -- ferret (talk) 19:13, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
Semi-protected edit request on 17 July 2016
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Due to the amount of imposter accounts, I request the official social media channel links be listed under "External links": Facebook: facebook.com/PokemonGO Twitter: twitter.com/PokemonGOapp Google+: plus.google.com/+PokemonGO
These links can be verified at the bottom of the official pokemongo.com website "connect" section. [1] Akrugar (talk) 20:40, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
References
- ^ www.pokemongo.com
Akrugar (talk) 20:40, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
Not done: Per WP:ELOFFICIAL. If they're linked from the official site, it's not appropriate for us to make a directory of all official social media sites. -- ferret (talk) 21:07, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
Al Azhar
The current source for the prohibition by Al Azhar University is from a very small Croatian news website (only 4,000 Facebook likes) being told by "an official".
I see only very few other sources carrying this story, one of which is a British tabloid, and I'm surprised that the other British tabloids who love to paint Islam as a puritan "other" aren't reporting it. This source mentions that state government are denying any statement by Al Azhar, and it is in fact the government researching the security of the software.
As exceptional claims require exceptional sourcing, I think the evidence is piling one way on this story '''tAD''' (talk) 21:14, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
Controversies
I recently condensed the Controversies section because to me, it seemed a bit WP:UNDUE. Users have since restored and expanded the section with related information. My question is, while some of the controversies are notable and sourced, should we continue adding to the section anytime a mainstream source publishes something? Meatsgains (talk) 03:42, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
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{{Infobox video game | title = Pokémon Go | image = Pokemon Go.png | caption = | developer = [[Niantic, Inc.|Niantic]] | publisher = [[Niantic, Inc.|Niantic]] | distributor = | series = ''[[Pokémon (video game series)|Pokémon]]'' | engine = [[Unity (game engine)|Unity]] | platforms = [[iOS]], [[Android (operating system)|Android]] | released = {{Collapsible list | title = {{Video game release||July 6, 2016}} | titlestyle = font-weight:normal;background:transparent;text-align:left; | {{vgrelease new|AUS|July 6, 2016|US|July 6, 2016|EU|July 13, 2016{{refn|group=note|name=EU Release|''Pokémon Go'' was released on different dates in Europe. It was first released in Germany on July 13, 2016, followed by the United Kingdom on July 14, Italy, Spain, and Portugal on July 15, and most of the rest of Europe on July 16.}}|CAN|July 17, 2016}} }} | genre = [[Augmented reality game|Augmented reality]] | modes = [[Single-player video game|Single-player]], [[Multiplayer video game|multiplayer]] | producer = | designer = | programmer = | artist = [[Dennis Hwang]] | writer = | composer = [[Junichi Masuda]] }} <!--Citations in the lead section should be minimal, per [[WP:LEADCITE]]--> Pokémon Go is a free-to-play location-based augmented reality mobile game developed and published by Niantic[1]. It was released in July 2016 for iOS and Android devices. |
The infobox and first sentence of the article incorrectly lists the Pokemon company as the publisher. The publisher is Niantic. [2] [3] [4]
Original source, eurogamer is incorrect.
Bendthaus (talk) 03:31, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
The concept for the game was conceived in 2014 by Niantic after Google and The Pokémon Company collaborated on an an April Fools' Day project called Pokémon Challenge.[5] This project lead to Tsunekazu Ishihara and John Hanke discussing the possibilty of a new game.[6] Ishihara had been a fan of developer Niantic's previous augmented reality game, Ingress, and saw the game's concept as a perfect match for the Pokémon series.[7] Niantic used data from Ingress to populate the locations for PokéStops and gyms within Pokémon Go.[8]
The Development section states that the game was conceived by Iwata and Ishihara which isn't true. The design came from Niantic and obviously drew heavily from ingress. Credit for conception of this game was likely interpreted incorrectly from the original source.
Bendthaus (talk) 03:50, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
References
- ^ "Niantic Promises Fix for Aggressive Pokemon Go Permissions".
- ^ https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pokemon-go/id1094591345
- ^ http://www.pcmag.com/news/346013/niantic-promises-fix-for-aggressive-pokemon-go-permissions
- ^ https://nypost.com/2016/07/11/nintendo-shares-soar-on-pokemon-go-craze/
- ^ "Google's April Fools' prank puts Pokemon in the real world". CNET. Retrieved July 8, 2016.
- ^ "Niantic delves more into the origins of Pokemon GO". Nintendo Everything.
- ^ Takahashi, Dean (December 16, 2015). "How Pokémon Go will benefit from Niantic's lessons from Ingress on location-based game design". VentureBeat. Retrieved June 16, 2016.
- ^ Borge, Ariel (July 11, 2016). "The story behind 'Pokémon Go's' impressive mapping". Mashable. Retrieved July 13, 2016.
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The source that is next to the text "The concept for the game was conceived in 2014 by Satoru Iwata of Nintendo and Tsunekazu Ishihara of The Pokémon Company as an April Fools' Day collaboration with Google, called Pokémon Challenge." does not support the claim made in the article. The CNET article given only confirms the existence of Pokemon Challenge, not the connection with Pokemon GO.
Please add this official video as a source to that claim instead, and change the year to 2013. The exact part where they talk about Pokemon Challenge inspiring Pokemon Go is around the 3:30 minute mark. Thank you. --211.30.17.74 (talk) 06:40, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
- The video was uploaded in 2014 though, meaning the Nintendo E3 video is mistaken. ~ Dissident93 (talk) 08:24, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
- Perhaps it's due to the planning for the Pokemon Challenge prank spanning from some point in 2013 to April 2014? The CNET source does not support the assertion currently in the article. --211.30.17.74 (talk) 08:39, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
Semi-protected edit request on 18 July 2016
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Hello,
I just noticed an inaccuracy. The publisher of Pokémon GO is inaccurately stated as "The Pokémon Company". Per Google Play Store (Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nianticlabs.pokemongo&hl=en) where it says: "Offered by Niantic, Inc." and iTunes App Store (Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pokemon-go/id1094591345?mt=8) where it says "Seller: Niantic, Inc. it seems like the Publisher should be Niantic. Can you please make this correction and link the Niantic, Inc. Wikipedia page (Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niantic,_Inc.)?
Just wanted to ensure the proper company got the publisher credit. :)
Thanks!
PokemonFan12 (talk) 11:12, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
Purpose of PokéStops and Pokémon gyms?
What is the function of these locations? The article mentions them but does not explain what they are or why they are needed in the game.67.186.224.245 (talk) 11:58, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
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