Video: This Secret Pikachu in Pokémon GO Completely Passed Us By

Just gonna wait for SLIGEACH_EIRE's comment complaining... (please don't be made at me SLIGEACH_EIRE, I'm only messing around - but why don't you like Pokemon?). I just want the game to come out here, is all...

1/10 - needs more Danny DeVito

Pokemon GO is actually on the front page of weather.com

I mean, at this point, we need to start listing all the websites that aren't talking about Pokemon GO's success.

I said this was the best thing to happen to Nintendo since Wii Sports; this might trump Wii Sports after it's all said and done.

Zzzzzzz

@Jolt Its here~

Maybe it's a good thing that the game was delayed in Europe, I would've missed this otherwise! Definitely gonna do this when I get the game.

@gatorboi352 I heard somewhere that Pokemon GO has more daily active users that Twitter right now, so I'm guessing it's done unbelievably well.

It's called a headlining, Alex.

Thanks for the tip, when it arrives, I'll be going for a Pikachu.

I do hope it comes out in the UK officially soon, all this hype and buzz it's getting is definitely piquing my curiosity.

@gatorboi352 Well Wii Sports did almost single handily sell 100mil Wii, but we don't really know how much Nitnodo has benefited from Go yet. They don't actually sell any hardware that plays Go, though it does seem to me like something that could work on a 3DS succesor - NX Away, 4DS, NX Tablet, whatever it is or they want to call it.

Of course looking at it another way, I always felt like no matter how much money Nintendo made selling $250 "Wii Sports bundles" - not "Nintendo Sports" or "Nintendo Wii's", simply "Wii Sports machines" - Nintendo never really benefited from it other than financially. I do feel like it was the "Nintendo DS" during that time - "Nintendo Brain Age", "NintenDogs" - but not "Nintendo Wii", just "Wii Sports". And then "Wii Fit", "Wii Balance Board" and "Wii Sports Resort". Mario Kart Wii sold almost 37mil copies, MK8 sold 7mil. What happened to those other 30mil people who bought MKW that Nitneod couldn't at least coax a few of them to buy a Wii U?

It does seem like now all of those non-gaming websites covering Go - CNBC, Forbes, WSJ, CNN - always mention Nintendo. Pokemon seems much more relatable to Nintendo than "Wii anything" ever did. So I'd say as far as just promoting "Nintendo" Go is doing a much better job than Wii ever did. Wii may have made them more money in the short term, but Go may help the company brand more in the long term. Which is the exact opposite of what Iwata once said about mobile. That it would be a short term gain but a long term loss.

I do hope whatever NX is, the N stands for Nintendo and everybody knows it. And Nintendo stands for games, not just a gimmick. The "dual screen" DS gimmick seems to have paid off pretty well, waggle and 3D not so much. Nintendo needs to ride those quality Ntineod games. M and FPS 3rd party ain't coming back.

@Mega_Yarn_Poochy LOL, that's hilarious. Bigger than Wii Sports... bigger than Game Boy... bigger than Twitter... soon it will be bigger than the meaning of life itself. What on earth happened?

@Xaessya it was only a matter of time...

@SLIGEACH_EIRE Again, stop spamming.

Pikachu IRL

Nintendo needs to do a promotion where if you buy a Wii U or a 3DS you get Pokemon Go for free. Plus a few special, rare Pokemans

I'd rather have Squirtle, anyway. Blastoise rules all!

I chose Charmander but found a Pikachu on the second day. I've since hatched another Charmander and caught two Bulbasaurs. No sign of squirtle though. Maybe I need to find more water.

BTW the servers are terrible this evening. It's been unplayable for several hours. I've actually caught a few and it just freezes. That's when I can actually log on to the game. I even checked NintendoLife.com assuming it was because they had launched in Europe and Asia, but aparrently not.

That's a Hedge!

@bob1994 No comment... Well this is my comment, but you know what I mean.