Pokémon GO is Now Available in the US

I hope scandenavia will get this officaly.

I wonder, how many pokemon does the game has?

Only the Kanto Dex?

@Gridatttack : Unfortunately, yes. I suspect that they will add more as time goes on.

@sillygostly @Gridatttack They confirmed at e3 that they'll add them region by region after there's been enough fiddling with the servers, game mechanics, and the like.

It isn't available in Canada yet--at least, not on Android. Therefore, it is only open in the US, which, let me remind, is not the whole of North America.

@XXIV Oh, interesting. I'll amend that, then.

@sillygostly On my Pokemon Go in the UK it tells me I have caught 27/250 Pokemon so think it includes the Johto Dex too

@Alfonzo Don't count on it. We still don't even have Miitomo and doubt we ever will.

We should step up and demand to get rid of this stupid Scandinavian distributer and be placed under Nintendo of Europe!

I can't get past the name character section.... Every name I want to use is taken. With number variations as well.

And so it begins:
http://www.cartelpress.com/teen-playing-pokemon-go-stabbed-mugged-iphone/

Next up will be people walking under a buss or truck. But the above article is actually really sad, but bound to happen a lot more.

@Jeronan Yeah, that looks like a really reputable source...... >_>

@business-scrub You telling me this is not true or not going to happen?

Next up will be young kids (that should not have a smartphone yet in first Place) walking under a buss or truck. Mark my words.....within a couple days the first deadly accident is bound to happen.

Especially young kids have no sense of danger and will run around with their (or parent's) phone chasing pokemons, unaware of their surroundings.

It's inevitable really, seeing how many parents are oblivious to this and utterly naive. /shrug

PS. And not just kids, I see almost every day at least one person almost getting hit by a car, crossing a street without paying attention other than reading on his/her phone.

So really. This should not come as a suprise, when you have a augmented reality game based on a popular IP loved by many (kids) around the globe, that forces you to focus on your phone screen when walking around.

@Jeronan
Maybe that's why we call them "smart" phones, they were secretly designed to restart the process of natural selection

Joke aside, this doesn't have anything to do with Pokémon Go, though. It is about people being stupid.

The servers keep crashing, so I haven't been able to even log in.

@Kroko You can't call young kids stupid, when they don't have a sense of danger yet!

Blame the parents sure. Sad reality will be that these parents will sue Nintendo of America, when their kid gets run over by a car on a busy intersection trying to Catch a pokemon that spawned in the middle of said intersection.

I think Nintendo is very naive still when it comes to mobile games and grossly understimate the risks of these kind of augmented reality games.

Time will tell.

According to users, it is battery-drain super effective!

Got this last night. My first pokemon was Bulbasaur, and there's 2 gyms by my house. One of them being at Taco Bell. And I can see a purpose in the Pokémon Go Plus device or else your going to be walking around constantly looking at your phone

@luigifan624 Like if people did not ignore each other enough already...

@VanillaLake this is true. But it can also be used to get kids out thearly house. Explain how the game works, if they already don't know, hand them the phone and say "Let's go for a walk". I'm going to do that with my son

@luigifan624 Yeah it looks like a great idea for parents and children going for a walk.

Are pokecoins guaranteed to catch a Pokemon? I don't want to wastemoney buying them in the game only to have the Pokemon escape.

@Don from what I've seen so far it's pretty easy to catch the Pokemon if you walk out of range of it then yeah you won't be able to catch it. I haven't had any escaped on me but I have gotten out of range of them

Good decision to only include old Pokemon at first. I know a few people who haven't played since childhood giving this a try, and many unrecognisable Pokemon would alienate these kind of players.

@luigifan624

Thank you for the info

"14,500 Pokécoins = $99.99"

I'm so proud of Nintendo. They finally understand mobile gaming. There are people with cash and you need to extract the money. This is how you do it.

Nintendo - whale hunting with POWER!

@XCWarrior I can't tell if you're kidding or not.

"Don't sit here in the dark reading ebooks, go outside and catch some pokémon."

@TeeJay
Oh he's kidding. He's kidding hard.

You should explain what you get for the Pokécoins before asking us if pricing is fair.

Finally!!!

But not Canada....... but good thing I can download the apk file. All the locations and such work so it's all good.

Here we go!

Time to see how boring my area still is. lol

Not working on my andriod device... getting a black screen.

I don't see any except the most dedicated/desperate budding trainers paying the $99.99 price for 14,500 Pokecoins. O_o Then again, I never use microtransactions.

@Pod @TeeJay I want Nintendo actually turn a profit in FY2016.

So I am not kidding. Go get your credit cards and make an investment. Nintendo needs you.

[Insert Uncle Sam finger pointing picture with Mario's face glued on]

Already have it downloaded. Guess I’ll be seeing a lot more of NYC while walking, a good with the bad since I’m not that outdoorsy.

On a side note, I didn’t even know it was released in Japan and Australia 2 days ago (read it a few mins ago). Guess I missed that hype train.

The servers are acting up right now, but I expected that. It is Pokemon after all, and the hype did help in that part.

I have been out of the pokemon craze for years and years but this i could use to. LOOOOVE the realistic avatars. I wish the main series had such an art style.
Anyway, I got the app, started, and accidently chose freakin Squirtle as my starter instead of Bulbasaur....found out this choice is irreversable...My life is over....haha

The avatars could still use a decent pair of pants

Does anyone know how to change my trainer ID name?

@Don You can't unless it has personally identifiable information. If not, you can only delete your account. Both require you to send an e-mail directly to Niantic.

Awesome! Can't wait to try this!

...As soon as the servers get fixed...

While trying figure out if here are likely some Pokemon Go activity as in Pokestops where I live through searching up Ingress a bit, I stumbled upon this picture and wondering if this is us after a while in Pokémon Go kind of ^^.

How big is the app on Android? My phone has very little space, and I can't check myself as I live in Canada.

Oh never mind. You need a constant internet connection to play, and my phone doesn't have that. Even if I go to a wifi spot, I doubt every Pokémon is going to be residing in them.

Kinda sorta worked for me on my Smasung Core Prime $50 phone. Some server issues, and I couldn't see the Pokemon with my camera, just the Pokeball, but I caught it anyway, then it froze. Restarted my phone and still had Charmander. Will probably use this all summer with the boys, we hike alot.

Funny thing, Miitomo is incompatible with this phone, so now I have 1 on my phone, 1 on my tablet. Maybe Nintendo will make its own NX branded tablet that all of its mobile apps work on, even if NX games don't. 2DS is old and only $79, can't get much cheaper, kids need a replacement device. They could probably sell a dedicated Yokai Watch tablet in Japan. Animal Crossing and Fire Emblem too. A Nintendo tablet makes sense.

Lots of server problems. I caught a Bulbasaur, then a wild Pidgey appeared. Threw out a ball, and the game froze. May have to wait a couple days until the hype dies down to actually invest any time in the game.

There's really no explanation of the game other than "Walk around; catch Pokémon." Do I need to pay real money to keep playing the game, or can I earn Pokéballs and such through some form of grinding? I don't do microtransactions, so this may be a dealbreaker for me.

Too bad the servers are crashing. I really want to play this but I can't sign up for an account at all.

Too bad I'm plagued with a Wifi only device.

It's a fun app, it's mostly what I expected it to be at launch, everyone kind of over hyped it.

@earthboundlink so far from what I've noticed you really don't need to spend any money there are certain landmarks that will appear on the GPS of the app of the game that you can like tap or swipe and you can get more Pokeballs right now I'm up to like a hundred sixty two Pokeballs and it's fairly easy to catch the Pokemon. Of course that was before the servers crashed.

@Jeronan I know this scandinavia s**t is well... s**t

Still busted it seems. Oh well. I'll try it again in a few days.

Well this whole situation with this game has gone from bad to worse. https://youtu.be/iNdrOZ98pSg. Figured I'd link it in case @NintendoLife wanted to do anything on it

@Jeronan I'm telling you that is clearly an article from a satirical news site.

"I don’t think he had any idea where he was at or that he was being stabbed."

I think getting stabbed is something you're going to notice. And if that wasn't a dead give-away, just look at some of the articles on the side: "ISIS taking responsibility for Pokemon Go server issues," or "Photos of dragon shot dead in house are going viral."

I agree that a lot of parents give their kids smartphones at unnecessarily young ages but I think most of them won't instantly throw caution to the wind with this one game. Parents will still look after their kids. The way you're talking and with the fake articles you're so eager to believe, it seems like you think kids are going to start dying like flies like this game is some sort of international epidemic.