Pokemon Go at the Disney Parks

Mike S

Mike S

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DoubleJ21 said:
Ahem...you were saying....:);)
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A quote from the article.
Before Nintendo would ever put any content onto the App Store, it would first have to be ready to compete in that environment and sell its games on a platform where race-to-the-bottom pricing and aggressive freemium money-making mechanics are the norm. It must be willing to learn how to design its products in a way that would make them competitive on that platform.
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Looks like they did it by partnering with an already mobile developer.
 
cheesecake

cheesecake

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As the only 90s kid that actually DISLIKED Pokemon, I'm sure the hubbub will all be over soon. And the last thing we need in WDW is another distraction from people watching where they're walking. Excuse me as I return to my retirement home :)
 
Princess Leia

Princess Leia

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Nintendo's stock went up 24.5%. I can see it going higher.

Seriously, Disney is probably going to rush order a product like this, or change the games they have in the parks. I can't see them being 100% okay with another product taking time away from their own.
 
DisneyFanaticUK

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cheesecake said:
As the only 90s kid that actually DISLIKED Pokemon, I'm sure the hubbub will all be over soon. And the last thing we need in WDW is another distraction from people watching where they're walking. Excuse me as I return to my retirement home :)
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I'm a fellow 90's kid who LOVED Pokemon and I still occasionally play it if I'm in a nostalgic mood. However, I agree with your sentiment, this particular app has no staying power due to how bare-bones it is.
 
JohnD

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pilka214 said:
The pokemon are mostly placed randomly, and your tracked using gps. I've noticed there are certain locations where more rare pokemon will randomly spawn. It's really neat, because if you're playing with friends you all run into the same pokemon at the same time. It seems like playing at disney would be a blast, lots of stops and gyms.
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My concern with this thing is that pokemons will show up in private businesses and homes and people will want to find a way to get at them. It's already been reported that guests want to access backstage areas at WDW just so they can get their pokemon. I may be wrong but I bet you'll hear stories at some point that this thing is getting out of hand.
 
JohnD

JohnD

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raven said:
On a radio morning show this morning in Orlando it's being reported that people are being mugged easier now because they are staring at their phones out in the middle of nowhere. A caller said there were over 100 people at an abandoned shopping plaza at 12:30am this morning in Clermont just staring at their phones and not noticing anything going on around them. This kind of thing is an easy target for thugs I guess.
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**Facepalm**. In a normal world people wouldn't be showing up any anywhere abandoned at 12:30 in the morning. Sigh. . .
 
Stripes

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Tahu said:
While Pokemon is jointly owned between Nintendo, Game Freak, and Creatures, Nintendo's still the one calling the shots for the IP. Even if their cut from the game's profits isn't as big, this is still really good for them. An app that has "More daily users then Twitter" is very good news for them considering how much of a struggle the Wii U has been and it bodes well for their further mobile plans down the line, which supposedly includes something based on Animal Crossing.
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No doubt. Near-term though the stock has had a very knee-jerk reaction. Up 23%, after a successful launch of a mobile game? I'd also say it would bode much better for Nintendo future-wise if they created the game in-house, but they didn't. IMO, Nintendo needs to scrap their handheld business (3DS), and focus solely on mobile (outside of console gaming). Casual gamers who enjoy playing Mario Kart, but who are by no means huge fans of Nintendo, make up the majority of Nintendo's customer base. I have no clue why the majority of hard-core Nintendo fans insist that Nintendo should stick to their existing product model. It's dead! To say it's not is to naively ignore reality.
 
FigmentJedi

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DoubleJ21 said:
No doubt. Near-term though the stock has had a very knee-jerk reaction. Up 23%, after a successful launch of a mobile game? I'd also say it would bode much better for Nintendo future-wise if they created the game in-house, but they didn't. IMO, Nintendo needs to scrap their handheld business (3DS), and focus solely on mobile (outside of console gaming). Casual gamers who enjoy playing Mario Kart, but who are by no means huge fans of Nintendo, make up the majority of Nintendo's customer base. I have no clue why the majority of hard-core Nintendo fans insist that Nintendo should stick to their existing product model. It's dead! To say it's not is to naively ignore reality.
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Nintendo's handhelds have always sold well. If it weren't for the 3DS, Nintendo would be in far worse shape then it was pre-Go's launch. In fact, I think the 3DS has been the most successful platform handheld or home console this generation.
 
BAChicagoGal

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I'm more likely to have my camera on, and snapping photos than I am to be playing a Pokemon game in the park. This world we live in today is an amazing place. Digital photography still amazes me, and it's been around for a long while now. I can snap a pic one minute, and share it with family at home the next. When my grandson told me about the game, I did not realize exactly how it worked. It's camera based, and I guess all phones have cameras now. That in itself amazes me also. I am 68, and sometimes slow to catch on. However, I bonded, big time with my grandson almost 20 years ago, when Pokemon first came on the scene.
 
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Stripes

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Tahu said:
Nintendo's handhelds have always sold well. If it weren't for the 3DS, Nintendo would be in far worse shape then it was pre-Go's launch. In fact, I think the 3DS has been the most successful platform handheld or home console this generation.
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Yes it is. But what exactly was its competition? The PS Vita? Nintendo has sold 59 million 3DS units. For comparison, they sold 154 million DS units. That's because the dynamics of handheld gaming have radically changed. Since the 3DS was released, Apple has sold about 747 million iPhones, and the smartphone market as a whole has taken a significant bite out of Nintendo's handheld potential. If Nintendo had scrapped the 3DS earlier and had done nothing then obviously it would be in worse shape, but if they had dug deep into mobile, they would be in far better shape.
 
Mike S

Mike S

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DoubleJ21 said:
Yes it is. But what exactly was its competition? The PS Vita? Nintendo has sold 59 million 3DS units. For comparison, they sold 154 million DS units. That's because the dynamics of handheld gaming have radically changed. Since the 3DS was released, Apple has sold about 747 million iPhones, and the smartphone market as a whole has taken a significant bite out of Nintendo's handheld potential. If Nintendo had scrapped the 3DS earlier and had done nothing then obviously it would be in worse shape, but if they had dug deep into mobile, they would be in far better shape.
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One of the big rumors for the NX is that it could be a console/handheld hybrid that brings back cartridges which have advanced enough that the move away from discs could actually make sense. That leaves them to focus on one console and then mobile while still keeping dedicated handheld gaming.

win/win
 
FigmentJedi

FigmentJedi

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Mike S said:
One of the big rumors for the NX is that it could be a console/handheld hybrid that brings back cartridges which have advanced enough that the move away from discs could actually make sense. That leaves them to focus on one console and then mobile while still keeping dedicated handheld gaming.

win/win
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With the idea being that since SD and MicroSD have greatly surpassed discs in storage capacity, carts using technology like that would do better then discs.
 

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