Pokémon return: a game that captures the world in two weeks

If there is a time machine in the world, then it is controlled by Pokémon. This is the only way to explain the phenomenon of insane popularity of small monsters created 20 years ago in Japan.

Pokemon - what is this?

Nobody imagined that the new game of Japanese Nintendo, launched on Android and iOS in just a week will be the second most popular after Miitomo. Pokémon GO is a free game, which is distinguished from similar applications by the use of additional reality technologies. The player's gadget reflects a real map, on which virtual objects are superimposed.

One of the reasons for the popularity of the game is that the main heroes of Pokémon GO are those most familiar monsters - Pokémon, endowed with superpowers.

Pokemon - game or mass insanity

Pokémon GO appears daily in the smartphones of new and new players. To earn "candy" and "stardust" people are ready in the middle of the night to sweep to the other end of the city, catching small monsters in the agreed place.

At the same time, the latest news about the Pokemon appear every few hours, players are ready for anything, for the sake of another small monster, the game topped the chat of free App Store applications, and the Nintendo cost for an incomplete week increased by $ 7.5 billion.