Spectacular success for Pokemon Go, the video game for smartphones launched in the United States by the Japanese giant Nintendo (+26% on Wall Street), which developed the app together with Niantic, a company specializing in virtual reality and recently spun off from Google.
In just two days, Pokemon Go, available for now only in the US and New Zealand (but already well known in Europe as well), has conquered the top of the charts, to the point that some suspect it is responsible for a sudden increase in road accidents.
Just in the first 24 hours of its launch, Pokemon Go has surpassed Tinder for the number of downloads on Android devices, also pressing Twitter, and is even more used than WhatsApp and Snapchat.
On a technical level, Pokemon Go isn't exactly a virtual reality game, but rather augmented reality: it allows you to search for Pokemon in the real environment by following clues that appear on your mobile phone screen. Users are led to carry out real chases outside the front door: on the street, in the park, on the beach.
The spread of the game is also producing unexpected consequences: in Wyoming a girl came across a corpse while wandering in a park looking for Pokemon, while in Missouri the police discovered teenagers who used the game's geolocation to rob people.
Meanwhile, the game developers, due to ongoing server problems, have decided to temporarily suspend its release in other countries, including Italy.
