Norwegian prime minister caught red-handed playing the game in parliament

It’s all said that the Pokemon Go mania is over. Pokemon Go is an augmented reality game which use devices’ GPS capability to locate and capture virtual creatures named Pokemon. The main highlights must be that the game use the VR technology which blurs the boundaries between the virtual space and real space. People can see the cute Pokemon in their phone screen which interested them greatly. Pokemon Go encourage people go outside and look for Pokemon. Since Pokémon Go’s Canadian release on Android and iOS devices on July 17, within its first week of the launch, Pokémon Go became the most downloaded app of all time in the App Store and, on Aug. 1, hit 100 million downloads. within a month, it took the title as most popular game in U.S. history (beating out the Candy Crush Saga, Draw Something and Clash Royale). 

The game attracts an average of 21 million players a day and, though it’s free to play, has generated roughly 1.6 million dollars a day in in-app purchases. You can see many adults and young staring at their phones and catching the virtual Pokémon in real world. The game is so successful. The subtlety of merchant let them catch the business opportunity. Restaurants, bars and coffee shops especially have had the chance to capitalize on the trend. From this we can learn how popular Pokemon Go is.

Some reason caused the decline of Pokemon Go. May people are tired of the game mode, they do not want to go out and search for the same Pokemon again and again. On the other hand, there are too many traffic accidents and violent incidents happened because of Pokemon Go everyday. Government has interfered and they asked Nitantic to set no-Pokemon Zones in some particular areas. What’s more, the update of Pokemon Go is not interesting enough.

But recently in Norway it’s still raging. The country’s prime minister, Erna Solberg, was caught red-handed playing the game in parliament. PM Solberg had her phone out not during a break or boring filibuster, but during an active debate while another minister was speaking. Looks like she just caught something, too. That looks like maybe 200 XP she’s gotten, and I don’t see no Pokéstops. In fact, the Guardian points out, the very minister who was at the podium, Trine Skei Grande, was caught in August playing the game during a national security meeting!