PokeVision Creator Says Over 50M Pokemon Go Players Used Site
The creator of the Pokemon GO tracker PokeVision reveals the website’s count of over 50 million unique visitors over three weeks and 11 million per day prior to its closure. The unstable launch of mobile phenomenon Pokemon GO has led to a lot of unexpected situations, such as Niantic’s decision to shut down PokeVision, the popular Pokemon tracking website. As a matter of fact, what could be seen as even more unexpected is how staggeringly popular the PokeVision website had grown in such a short time, much like Pokemon GO itself had done. In an open letter to Niantic published via Medium, one of PokeVision’s creators directly addressed the ongoing issues with Pokemon GO, PokeVision’s success, and the future. Perhaps the most immediately startling details was just how successful PokeVision was, after a mere three weeks of being live: “PokeVision, at this time has grown to almost 50M unique users, and 11 million daily.” PokeVision’s creator, Yang Liu, was much more focused on why so...