Currently #8 on the grossing charts.
What game is above P&D and Monster Strike?
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Pokémon GO is finally out in Japan
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What game is above P&D and Monster Strike?
Osaka here as well, around the Fukushima district. Not as many stops as around my office building (that one is crazy), but I can still hit about 6 stops on a 5 min walk around my house. There's also a gym next to me from my team (yay) and another gym about 3 mins by walk on the opposite direction. I can't farm stops from my apartment but I reckon I'll get rich at work.
Anyway, so far today I've seen about 20 or so people playing the game when I walked around my apartment for some 15 mins, with a few groups of 3 or 4 kids, also saw more girls playing this than I expected. On my way home I saw two salarymen playing in front of the gym and when I got home and checked, lo and behold, they had added another pokemon to it, so I assume they both were blue team!
Tomorrow I'm going to Minoo (a park in Osaka) and expect to be able to find quite a few things, though being kinda far it might actually be empty. Oh well, let's see!
Anyway, so far today I've seen about 20 or so people playing the game when I walked around my apartment for some 15 mins, with a few groups of 3 or 4 kids, also saw more girls playing this than I expected. On my way home I saw two salarymen playing in front of the gym and when I got home and checked, lo and behold, they had added another pokemon to it, so I assume they both were blue team!
Tomorrow I'm going to Minoo (a park in Osaka) and expect to be able to find quite a few things, though being kinda far it might actually be empty. Oh well, let's see!
Calm Mind
Member
It will be #1 before Sunday.
coughlanio
Member
In Tokyo, countless dozens playing today. Literally, every soul in my office is playing. Went to Starbucks for Lunch, and at least 75% of the store checked the app at one point or another.
Thanks. Apparently it's a game you can play with just your thumb and has "raids" and such (up to 4 players in real time). No wonder it's up there, sounds perfect to play on a train.
It's out in the west as Colopl Rune Story.
Pancakes R Us
Member
Hahaha, what a hit. You know this shit just got real when AP is breaking this.confirmed by The Associated Press, BREAKING
DarkConfidant
Member
And from what it looks, they have the same damn Pokemon we have.
Yep. But be fun thing here is we can just hop on a train and collect different Pokemon at a lot of the stops along the way
Pff, come back when there is no gym or stop where you live.And i am sitting here in little Denmark in a very very small town. 1 gym and 1 stop.
In the city i work in there are 3 gyms very close to each other and quite a bunch of stops. But cant reach from job :/
Welcome to the game lovely japanese guys and girls
HawthorneKitty
Sgt. 2nd Class in the Creep Battalion, Waifu Wars
Whelp it hit #1 grossing on iOS.
Can't get Lures, Lucky Eggs or Incubators from Pokestops. You get a few on certain Lv-Ups, but I can see why people would want to buy more of those.
I'm sorry, guys. It was my fault I thought that was only Japan. Sorry, for that, lol.
BudokaiMR2
Member
Any Team Instinct players in Osaka? I am surrounded by Mystic gyms both at work and home....
No one likes Instict out West. I guess it's the same in Japan lol.
Copying my post from the other thread:
I spent the entire damn day yesterday trying to get the damn app to even load for me. Despite trying basically every 30 mins for 5+ hours it never once progressed past the loading screen. Isn't this why they deleted the damn thing here in Japan? WTF? I repeat it refused to load all damn day. Not even once. What an infuriatingly glitchy price of crap.
I spent the entire damn day yesterday trying to get the damn app to even load for me. Despite trying basically every 30 mins for 5+ hours it never once progressed past the loading screen. Isn't this why they deleted the damn thing here in Japan? WTF? I repeat it refused to load all damn day. Not even once. What an infuriatingly glitchy price of crap.
I've got a US iTunes account on my Japanese iPhone. You could load up the game but it would eternally try to connect to the servers and nothing showed up on the map. There weren't pokestops or gyms before the official launch.
Smiles and Cries
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SinCityAssassin
Member
Nah it just took a little while.
Cheesecakebobby
Banned
Getting quite a few stops on the way to work, but nothing reachable from my apartment or workplace. In Tokyo :s
I have to say it is kind of crazy how many people I have seen playing it. Walking back from work to Shinjuku station and basically if someone had a phone out there was a 90% chance it was Pokemon.
Getting back to my home station and going for a meal I would say 1 in 4 people or so we're playing. Sitting in the restaurant by the window and you could see people walking past, stopping, looking around etc.
The staff in the restaurant were talking about how so many people coming in are playing it etc etc. The cook said how they should make a Mario Kart Go for driving and the waitress was essentially like "That seems like a recipe for accidents" haha.
There were a group of 6 people standing outside a restaurant where someone had used a lure. This was in 5 minutes walk of an area where there 4 poke stops all with lures and 2 gyms. I should have gone to see what it was like there.
Getting back to my home station and going for a meal I would say 1 in 4 people or so we're playing. Sitting in the restaurant by the window and you could see people walking past, stopping, looking around etc.
The staff in the restaurant were talking about how so many people coming in are playing it etc etc. The cook said how they should make a Mario Kart Go for driving and the waitress was essentially like "That seems like a recipe for accidents" haha.
There were a group of 6 people standing outside a restaurant where someone had used a lure. This was in 5 minutes walk of an area where there 4 poke stops all with lures and 2 gyms. I should have gone to see what it was like there.
Twilight Princess
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On sites like appannie and thinkgaming, they list pogo as number 1 grossing in the us but in the app store itself, pogo stays at number 10 or below. Is there a reason for this and is the app store ranking more accurate?
victreeb3l
Member
Guys the Snapchat story for the Pokemon Go Japan release is freakin awesome.
Japan is so hyped lol. Theres a dude that put his phone in a net attached to his ceiling fan to hatch his eggs lmao
Japan is so hyped lol. Theres a dude that put his phone in a net attached to his ceiling fan to hatch his eggs lmao
This is genius, lol.
I assume it's the amount earned per day, the other thread Nirolak posted showed a chart that the top grossing game in Japan on mobile devices earns around 2-3mil per day.
ranmafan
Member
Same here in my small city it's taken over. Even this morning when I took my daily walk (now with Pokemon added) there were many people already up super early playing the game. Also was just shocked how much time the game took over each networks national news evening program at the beginning last night. I can't imagine what it will be like later this afternoon when more people are playing. Also so far I've only seen adults playing. Kids are just playing their normal summer vacation games outside. Kinda glad to see that and not just all of them glued to phones too. But I'm sure that will change too soon.
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Jpop
Unconfirmed Member
Pokemon Go is doing between 3-5M a day just in the U.S. + Japan on iOS platforms. Which is kinda crazy.
it doesn't track based on pedometer but on GPS positioning, so probs not gonna work
John: I've got three stops within twenty minutes of my house. How is it for you in Japan?
Me:
Meanwhile, I have to bike for 30 minutes to find 3-4 pokestops. It sucks how sparse locations in the GTA are (unless you live in downtown).
The funny thing is, there is another 20 or so behind me within 2-3 blocks on a single straight line. I just walk up and down the street
I wonder why Japan is so blessed? I'm not even in Tokyo.
SinCityAssassin
Member
Daily revenue on iOS.
finalflame
Banned
Hopefully they have JP/APAC only servers.
Construction workers taking their lunch break. Everyone was playing Pokemon Go -- there were several lures nearby.
Dat natural Japanese squat depth tho
What story?
Construction workers taking their lunch break. Everyone was playing Pokemon Go -- there were several lures nearby.
Why are they like that instead of sitting down?
the ground is dirty donchaknow
It hurts and is filthy.
Floor is dirty
Dynamite Shikoku
Congratulations, you really deserve it!
Construction workers taking their lunch break. Everyone was playing Pokemon Go -- there were several lures nearby.
Wearing filthy construction clothes, but afraid to sit on dirty ground
It's like leaning forward at the computer when shit gets interesting.