The game, produced by Niantic, also caused controversy in the Holocaust Museum in Washington, who asked visitors not to play within its enclosure, according to a statement Wednesday.
The game Pokemon Go, become a global phenomenon, and can be downloaded on mobile phones in Germany, the first European country where it is officially available, 13 Nintendo announced Wednesday.
“From today [Wednesday] is available in Germany,” he told AFP a spokesman for the Japanese video game company.
However, after the announcement, the Auschwitz museum has asked those responsible for Pokémon Go to abolish this part of the game for mobile phones, told AFP a spokesman for the institution.
“On Tuesday we sent a letter to the company asking Niantic delete the geolocation of the field in its application,” said Pawel Sawicki.
“We believe these practices out of place. It was here where thousands of people suffered, Jews, Poles, Gypsies, Russians and people of other nations,” he said.
“We want to raise awareness generally to all producers of games on respect for the memory of the victims of the country’s largest World War II Nazi death,” he added.
The Auschwitz camp will receive the visit of Pope Francisco and at least 300,000 young people during World Youth Day, which will take place from 26 to 31 July in Krakow (southern Poland).
The game, produced by Niantic, also caused controversy in the Holocaust Museum in Washington, who asked visitors not to play within its enclosure, according to a statement Wednesday.
This game, which uses augmented reality to “hunt” Pokémon creatures, is all the rage in the world since its appearance on July 5.
So far it was only officially available in the US, Australia and New Zealand, but since Germany can be downloaded from iPhone or phones with Android system. However many Europeans in recent days downloaded posing as residents of one of these countries.
For this free game, which gives new life to small and successful characters created in the late 1990s, Pokémon Go has used the technology of augmented reality, which adds virtual elements in the real world captured by the photographic apparatus phones.
The game uses geolocation to enable its users to “hunt down” these little creatures of shapes and magical powers. The game is already a global success and has brought comic scenes between the “hunters” in parks, subway stations, vacant lots and even a hospital in Amsterdam.
Although Nintendo was not the -only game designer gave his support to its subsidiary The Pokémon Company and the study Niantic- the group’s actions on the Tokyo Stock Exchange rose nearly 60% in just four days.
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