BENGALURU: Pokémon Go became an overnight hit (like they say in the movies) but did you know that this GPS based Augmented Reality game was basically a twenty year vision in the making? Had the game not achieved this level of success at such an astounding rate, then one would have firm grounds to disown the equation relating triumph to hard work. Pokémon Go broke the iTunes record with the most App Store downloads in its first week. According to research firm SensorTower, users spend more time on average inside Pokémon Go than they do in top apps such as Facebook, Snapchat and Twitter. With that being said, here are five consequences that rippled along with the massive splash of Pokémon Go.

Is it dangerously distractive?

Pokémon Go being the digital reincarnation of the first Pokémon Red and Green versions that came to the Nintendo Game Boy systems in Japan in 1997, got many of the so called nineties kids on its wagon. The game play requires players take to the streets as they ‘gotta catch em all’. Reports of accidents and trespassing flooded the media. New York Times reports, “Pop icon Justin Bieber was playing Pokémon Go near NYC’s Central Park, and everyone was too wrapped up in the crazy-popular game to recognize him.” On the other hand, reports of a geek using a sophisticated drone set up to catch the so called Pokémon went viral.

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