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Niantic: Pokémon Go healthy and growing as it approaches its next decade


How much does someone who built the foundations of Pokémon Go still play the game, eight years on? It's the first quest…

It's an eye-opening admission from a game that couldn't exist without Apple or Google devices and operating systems - though Niantic would hardly be the first to start pushing back against the dominance of mobile platform holders. As we begin wandering back towards the park's entrance, I quiz Wu on some of the Pokémon Go community's current top topics of conversation, including the recent rise of in-game event tickets you buy with small dollops of real-world money. "We're extremely excited both as fans and players and we're always taking inspiration from a wide variety of stuff - but we also want to always be innovating and doing things that are special to Pokémon Go, which is getting folks out into the real world.

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