Pokémon GO is Being Sold for $3.5 Billion Dollars

It's Super Effective: A Pokemon Podcast

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🗓️ 24 February 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Bloomberg is reporting that Niantic is in talks to sell Pokémon GO to Saudi Arabia-owned Scopely for $3.5 billon dollars in a few weeks. We talk about the future of GO and what some outcomes could be. The second part of today's show is our feelings after day 1 of Unova Tour in LA.

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0:00.0	What's up, everyone.
0:12.8	I have to look at my notes, 658 episodes of the Pokemon podcast.
0:19.1	It's super effective. I'm your host, Steve. We're in a studio. If you're
0:24.5	watching on YouTube, with me is Bobby. Hey, this is weird and different, but it's all good. We're up
0:32.3	here, LA for Univator, so yeah, happy to be here. And Hannah could could not make it so we got you know second best
0:39.3	hannah chris why i appreciate that's a really big compliment i appreciate that uh yeah no this
0:44.3	is awesome uh what a what a place to record yeah on the show before but this is certainly very different
0:49.3	yeah have we recorded in person before no i don I don't think so. No.
0:57.6	And I see Bobby once every like 20 years.
1:01.6	Yeah. Yeah. My understanding is this is one of the first times Bobby's seen sunlight in like two years.
1:03.1	Yes. Yeah. Yeah.
1:12.2	So we are in L.A. I found this sweet podcasting studio. And so hopefully after everything's done, it looks awesome.
1:14.5	And we can say that it was worth it so far.
1:15.4	I'm very impressed.
1:16.7	But hopefully you guys like it.
1:19.7	That's your leave a comment, I guess, if you like it.
1:22.3	And then I will purposely fly out to L.A. to book it again.
1:25.3	No, we're in like, Pokemon does a lot of stuff in L.A.
1:29.5	Yeah, that's true. So there's a lot of Pokemon Go specific news.
1:32.2	We're here for Unovatour, so this is going to be a very Go heavy episode.
1:41.1	So the game plan is that apparently Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia wants to buy Pokemon Go for $3.5 billion.
1:44.5	And I guess we're going to start with that.
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