A person is seen playing Pokémon Go with a Spearow visible in the corner of the foreground. (Photo : Getty Images/Olivia Harris)
The upsurge of users of Pokémon Go has caused an immense breakthrough in the Tokyo Stock Market record. Nintendo, being Kyoto-based, toppled the stock market record of Tokyo by skyrocketing in values of shares traded.
According to a graph made by Bloomberg, a whopping amount of 476 billion yen worth of shares have been traded for Nintendo on Friday. There was a 71 percent surge in the past week, making it the largest weekly amount of shares gained in history.
The game has more daily users in iOS and Android devices than Facebook and Twitter. It has also beat the previous record of 20 million number of users by Candy Crush, by having 21 million users.
This propelled Nintendo to be in the highest spot in the 21st century, defeating huge and omnipresent companies like Tokyo Electric, SoftBank, Mizuho, and Nippon Steel. It was the usage of Pokémon Go in countries such as Australia, New Zealand, The United States, and Canada that caused this immense increase.
Ironically, the record-breaking rate also comes with great surprise considering that the game hasn't yet been officially released in Japan. The delayed release has caused a great deal of frustration and impatience to Japanese fans, especially since the franchise was born in the country two decades ago.
This was due to the incapacity of Japanese servers to handle a huge number of people at the present moment. But an announcement has been made that the game will be released in the country by the end of July.
Available for free in iOS and Android, Pokémon Go, launched by Niantic, is one among the first games to introduce augmented-reality gaming to mobile devices. This forces users to go outside their homes to visit particular locations and areas in their country in order to catch Pokémon.
Combined with the popularity of Pokémon itself along with this new way of playing a game, it tickled the fancies of millions of users worldwide. Countries such as the Netherlands were recorded to have 1.3 million users of the app despite the game not being officially released in the country, which has caused a headache for the Dutch police, according to The NL times.
