The Pokémon phenomenon GO – The Press

On July 6 will go down in history as the day on which an application without any expectation surpassed other downloads that are today among the most famous.

Pokémon GO , which has become a viral phenomenon, surpassed Snapchat , Candy Crush and Tinder . He also dethroned the number of active users per day Twitter in just 10 days of its release.

Under the slogan “Break the shoes and Pokéballs “the company Niantic Inc. made the debut in society application in the United States, Australia and New Zealand.

a Panama has not officially arrived, but the international furor it spread to the locals, who were able to use escape routes to access the application that is gradually entering several continents to expand its operational range and reach 200 destinations.

in areas like Costa del Este, the Omar park, the Old Town or the coastal strip have not missed groups of adults and children who are torn between the real world and the fictional vision that raises Pokémon Go.

the application works as a camera with GPS that will indicate what coordinates are bugs called Pokémon, scheduled to appear on the iconic sites of cities.

once the user arrives on the scene, “fight” and “capture” and then “train” called pokémon, and thus become part of an army that will fight with other opponents.

the most bizarre the game is to find adults over 30 years amid an imaginary world that every day adds up fans.

We have heard of people in their third decade of life have decided to invade private gardens or appearing in churches and places to “hunt” virtual beasts.

As the application is not available in the region, Panamanians the downloaded using a US address and so deceive operating systems Android and iPhone.

the game and its controversial

Pokémon Go is an extension of the franchise of TV series Pokémon , which includes albums collection with trading cards, toys, books and other products.

Pokémon Go is an augmented reality game for mobile phones created in collaboration with Nintendo , the Pokémon Company and an ancient operating subsidiary Google , Niantic Labs. the TV series became famous in the late 1990s and people who have been expresses engaged with the game that is a kind of melancholy encounter, because somehow embody Ash, who in the series was a Pokémon trainer. The emergence of Pokémon Go in the busiest areas of the city has generated some unexpected consequences in other latitudes.El game marked as the hotspot of monsters, sites among which include the Pentagon in the United States and the Holocaust Museum, one police station in Australia and private homes. The pokémon that inhabits the White House is like an eagle, called Murica and coach called Boricua. While many players find this funny fact, communications director of the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C., described as extremely inappropriate play Pokémon Go on a memorial dedicated to the victims of Nazism. In a statement he said he is looking to take the museum radar juego.En Darwin, Australia, one of the favorite habitat is a police station. There they turned him over to the inconvenience and took advantage of the popularity of the site to increase awareness of road safety. They recommended young people to stop looking at the cell and instead look to both sides of the street before crossing because the Sandshrew (type of pokémon that looks like a rat) not going anywhere.

the arrival of this game has found from the most inveterate lovers imaginary world, even the most visceral opponents they do not understand how an adult through the city in search of something that does not exist

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publication Facebook has more than 4,000 comments and was shared more than 23,000 times since it was published on July 6 in account Emergency Services, Police and Fire.

the arrival of this game has found from the most inveterate lovers imaginary world, even the most visceral opponents who do not understand how an adult through the city in search of something does not exist.

Panama is mounted on the wave

in the country, #PanamaGo is the label with which Twitter users identify photos and comments. In Facebook there is a group called Pokémon Go Pty .

The players say that the Punta Pacifica Hospital, like Omar park are the most popular habitats of Pokémones in the capital city.

is also famous Tabernacle of Faith in Juan Diaz, and the Basilica of Don Bosco in Calidonia.

There are legions of players who are organizing trips or tours of the Baru volcano, Anton Valley and San Blas to catch Pokémon.

Tomorrow, Sunday, hundreds of players will meet in the coastal strip for the first “pokétrip” for the purpose of finding “poképaradas”.

Several local are taking advantage of the boom of the game, such as restaurant Don Lee , which offers in its branch of The Dorado the possibility of enlarging the combo it shows if the user has the application.

the promotion is valid until July 20 and runs like wildfire networks sociales.El Sheraton hotel will have a party on Sunday to commemorate the day child and he is encouraging them to “come and catch Pokémon.” Albrook Mall, the Space Play World and Albrook Bowling announced that activate a tool enabled the game to attract Pokémon. The idea is that their premises are filled with birriosos.

commercial Effect

With over 15 million downloads in the App Store and Google Play, the company Sensor Tower, which is responsible for the metrics on the Internet, published a study indicating that people currently interact more with Go Pokémon with other downloaded applications.

So, daily users spend an average of 15 minutes 15 seconds Instagram , 17 minutes, 56 seconds on Twitter, 18 minutes 7 seconds Snapchat, 22 minutes, 8 seconds on Facebook and 33 minutes with 25 seconds Pokémon Go.

Nintendo shares rose 25% due to the popularity of Pokémon Go. The application, which was launched last week, quickly became the most downloaded iTunes . By entering this netherworld the user receives a valid warning. For the hunter Pokémones their worst enemies are the steps, holes in the streets and sidewalks, lampposts and jumping unexpectedly interrupt the passage, and other pedestrians and cars. In addition to consuming the battery of your phone, the application stops into question the privacy of users. Players must link their personal account Google and the company knows its location at all times.

However, it has not lacked the positive analysis of the game, when compared with consoles that have a habit of isolating players in a virtual world of augmented reality in a room.

The same goes for gaming applications that have been launched in recent years for smartphones or tablets. But Pokémon Go forces young people to go out and explore their surroundings, exercise and consequently to meet more people.