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Pokémon Go, the Game That Drove Millions Outdoors, Gets a Quarantine Update

Business Wars Daily

Wondery

News, Daily News, Business News, Business

4.6716 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Today is Friday, April 10, and we’re looking at Pokémon Go vs. Jurassic World Alive.

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I'm David Brown, and this is Business Wars Daily on this April 10th.

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Hope you've gotten through this very tough week.

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And once again, it's Feel Good Friday here on the show. Today, game developers come up with another way to distract the kids, that is,

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enjoy quality time with your children at home. Remember in 2016 when Niantic released the game

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Pokemon Go, a location-based augmented reality scavenger hunt? Well, the company designed the game to inspire

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people to explore outside, get some exercise, and create real communities with other people who

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enjoy capturing electronic monsters. It is an understatement to call the game a giant success.

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Pokemon Go earned more than $1 billion in sales during its first seven months. It was the first mobile game in history to hit that billion dollar mark so quickly.

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It built on that success by creating massive live events called raids

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that attract thousands of people to various cities to hunt for the little monsters.

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