That the Pokémon Go fever has decreased in recent days is a reality, and the best thing is that it did not take a Termalgin for it. However, its figures and playability continue to leave us with our mouths open. The amount of news and curiosities that Pokémon Go hides behind have helped increase its fame and its history. Today we are going to take a look back, we are going to see what are the five Guinness records that Pokémon Go has broken and some other curiosities that help us better understand how deep this mobile game has penetrated and how the industry is going to change little by little.
Although we do not have data on this, the reality is that Pokémon Go has contributed, even a little, to the sale of portable batteries for mobile devices, because you have to see how much battery the game consumes. This is something the Niantic team (Pokémon Go developer) has not seen fit to solve, so we resign ourselves to dragging cable and lithium battery if we want to increase the hours of Pokémon Go play as much as possible. The last thing that is lost is hope, yes, the "battery saving mode" of Pokémon Go is more psychological than real.
The five Guinness records of Pokémon Go
For starters, these are the five Guinness records that the game has broken, all of them focused on the mobile games section during the first month since its launch.
- Higher revenue: Here the game has collected more than 200 million dollars in the first month
- More downloads: Most successful ever released, 130 million downloads
- Most number one spots on international charts per download: 70 countries give you the top spot
- More number one positions in international income lists: In 55 countries it was the one with the most money
- Fastest game to make a hundred million dollars: it took only twenty days to make him a "hundred millionaire"
These are the most important records that the game Pokémon Go has broken during his first month of life, figures that are literally dizzy, and that we thought were unbeatable.
No, Pokémon Go is not from Nintendo, it is a version of Ingress
It is something that many did not know. Nintendo shares grew like wildfire, to their highest point since 1983. However, the reality is quite different. Pokémon Go is just the brand, the game is developed by the Niantic company, a startup specialized in augmented reality that to be honest is owned by Alphabet (the new name by which Google's business network is known). In fact, not even the entire Pokémon belongs to Nintendo, only part of the rights are owned by Nintendo, because the brand is related to The Pokémon Company, a company of which Nintendo only owns 50%. In short, Nintendo is the one who takes the least slice of Pokémon Go and its income in all this framework, to the point that its brand is not reflected in any section of the game.
Goodbye to the battery and the data rate. How do I save?
Pokémon Go is shattering the battery and data consumption of most users. There are still no clearly differentiated measures to save these consumptions, however, if it has been calculated how much more or less the use of the application can consume. T-Mobile (popular phone company) confirmed that mobile data usage has increased by four since its launch. It currently consumes around 10/12 MB when playing.
According to many users, the most profitable way to save in MBs is download offline maps from Google Maps in the areas where we are going to go to capture Pokémon. Niantic has not commented on the matter, but we do know that the database is the same given its relationship with Google. Although really, ten MB an hour is not considerably serious either.