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NEWS: The Pokémon Company Delays Pokémon Go Plus Accessory to September

I'm kind of surprised the article doesn't mention the "Update Gate" that's going on right now. Unless Niantic acts fast, Nintendo's not going to need to need to worry about the app's overwhelming success. Early today the app's rating was down to 1.8 stars on the US app store (and even lower on the Japanese store) and apparently Apple was being overwhelmed by people demanding refunds for in-app purchases. All due to an update that killed 3rd party support for the app, which people had begun to rely on due to several key features that are currently broken (tracking, and for some - myself included - maps).

They just pushed out a tiny micro update that reset all the review ratings in the app store, however.

The article doesn't because the update thing that people are all fussing over is kind of petty. For a fair giant size of ANN's audience the tracking hasn't worked and a lot of ANN's editors are based in Japan and they've never had the tracker working. The update gave more than it took away for Japan, Canada and Europe.

The only real fun part was tracking down specific pokemon. Well, they completely removed that. And to add insult to injury, they went after sites that were helping people do that. So they won't fix the issue, but won't let others fix it either. I am convinced Ninatic is run by imbeciles.

Good on Niantic, they've just killed the largest mobile game ever in less than a month. That's quite a feat.

The game thrives on not playing alone, and that's soon going to be the case; unless shit is fixed the game will be over by October aside from holdouts like those who play Ingress.

The article doesn't because the update thing that people are all fussing over is kind of petty. For a fair giant size of ANN's audience the tracking hasn't worked and a lot of ANN's editors are based in Japan and they've never had the tracker working.

I'm more talking about general relevance; if I go to google news and type in "pokemon go", the top is flooded with articles talking about the fiasco, as well as things like this, which just might be related considering the fact the app plummeted to around 1.5/5 stars on the Japanese listing.

Niantic made it clear their original tracking system was gone for good.

They have also, supposedly, made all mons break out of balls about twice as often; presumably because, as the other changes imply, they think frustration is fun.