{"id":237759,"date":"2023-07-01T08:45:28","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T12:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=295867"},"modified":"2025-07-01T18:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T01:48:08","slug":"pokemon-go-arrives-seven-years-later-at-the-beginning-of-its-inevitable-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/pokemon-go-arrives-seven-years-later-at-the-beginning-of-its-inevitable-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Go Nears its Final Evolution: Reflecting on Seven Years of Adventure as the Game’s End Looms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

July 13, 2016. Pok\u00e9mon Go<\/strong><\/a>‘ arrives on our cell phones and turns everything upside down. Overnight, we’re all out hunting for creatures in our city<\/strong> despite the mechanics being overly simple and the possibilities rather rickety. Yet there we are, alerting us with messages like “A Gyarados has appeared in Plaza de Castilla”. The media started talking about how ‘Pok\u00e9mon Go’ was making people invade private spaces and even die from looking at the screen so much. And seven years later, what?<\/p>\n\n\n

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Gotta catch ’em none<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Niantic, the company behind ‘Pok\u00e9mon Go’, was very happy. At last ‘Ingress’, that game based on geolocation that had failed a few years earlier, was making sense thanks to someone else’s saga. Everyone was making money hand over fist and it seemed that the moment of joy would never end.<\/strong> Until, in 2023, it is rare to find trainers on the streets: the app <\/a><\/strong>is at a low ebb but, at the same time, it is the only thing that makes them money. Get them all, big trouble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Niantic became adept at ‘virtual reality gaming’ on mobile. ‘Harry Potter: Wizards Unite’ was basically a magical ‘Pok\u00e9mon Go<\/strong>‘ that lasted a year and a half before shutting down. It was just the first of a few. ‘Catan: World Explorers’, based on the world’s most famous modern board game<\/strong>, barely lasted another year because, frankly, it was impossible to port ‘Catan’ to the MMO, let alone localization-based.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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