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if you'll allow me to wax poetic, here's my problem with GO
Its merely a skin. A shell of a dear old franchise most of us know and love. The terms by which this is considered to be a "pokemon game", as opposed to juts a "Pokemon" game, dance on the threshhold of an age old fear: The future of portable gaming in regards to the booming mobile gaming industry
With both mobile app games and portable handheld consoles, there exist problems. Cartridges get lost, data plans exceed their capacity, battery life, etc. As a consumer the very subtle debate exists between whether or not to have both the latest phone AND the latest handheld, or one over the other, and which.
With GO the promotion seems to be nauseatingly high and self-aware. Its a Google app, based on Google technology. Google pretty much lies at the base of the mainstream internet culture, thanks to Siri, and Google Maps GPS.
Its hard to not imagine a Google product not selling this well, and being this heavily embraced by the people in the midst of this mass encounter with the information age, the technological era. Especially when you factor in Pikachu.
My problem isn't with Pokemon, Google, or Nintendo. As always, its coattailing and dickriding that I can't stand.
I look forward to getting a new phone in the fall, but I'm also looking forward to pre-ordering Sun and Moon. As a budget gamer, I cannot simply rush out and buy the latest gadget to run the latest app. and as someone who's done the same dance with consoles for a decade now, I refuse to bend to an app that will most likely be a thing of the past come American Handegg season...
