Pokémon Go Will Get PvP and Legendary Pokemon This Summer

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Apparently there is no stopping Pokémon Go. After 650 million downloads and 65 million active players, there are still many updates to come. In a recent interview with Brazilian outlet O Globo, it has been confirmed that both legendary Pokémon and PvP will be coming to the game.

The Legendary Pokémon was teased last week when Development Lead Archit Bhargava put out a little teaser remark. In this recent interview, Niantic Vice President of Strategic Partnershps Mathieu de Fayet revealed the news to O Globo:

Because of the great success, we had to postpone some news that was planned. Now, we are working on some news for next summer (Northern Hemisphere), how to give more value to team choice, the release of Legendary Pokémon and battles between players. One thing we learned from “Ingress” is that the game holds if we are able to create social interactions between players, and we are working on it.

This new update comes on the heels of Niantic undergoing alpha testing on their newest mobile game Pokéland in Japan. Both Legendary Pokémon and PvP battles have been highly requested features for players since game launched. As Fayet notes, however, the game was so successful that they did not need to roll the features out right away. Hopefully, this extra development time will allow Niantic to adequately prepare for the added strain to their servers. After all, not only will active players try out the new additions, but this will most likely get people who stopped playing to return to the game.

Pokémon Go has been routinely updated since launch, and is available for free on both Android and iOS platforms.

Posted: Jun 01, 2017 4:45 pm
Related Forum: Mobile Devices

Source: http://www.dualshockers.com/pokemon-go-pvp-legendary-pokemon/

Comments

MeetPosted: Tue. Jun 13, 2017

This game was hot for like a couple of months and then died pretty quickly at least where I'm from. Maybe the PvP will bring the spark back into the game, always felt like that was a missing feature of the game since it is Pokemon.

SkatesPosted: Sun. Jun 04, 2017

65 million active players isn't too bad. I stopped playing this game shortly after launch. I would of kept playing it if I lived in a big city but I live in a small town and it's not as interesting / entertaining after a while. Just saw the same Pokemon over and over and over again.

IlcamorristaPosted: Sat. Jun 03, 2017

I played this game once on .... and **** had a sezuire due to the running.. Got taken to hopsital and everything :/ stay careful

TOXICPosted: Fri. Jun 02, 2017

This game is completely dead now, no matter what updates they do I'm not going to be at all interested in this game, it was fun while it lasted.

RareparrotPosted: Fri. Jun 02, 2017

never played this never will game sounded stupid

SagePosted: Fri. Jun 02, 2017

Maggardo I haven't seen anyone touch, or play this game in a decent amount of time. The game started sucking when people began using glitches and hacks to make it change their location in the game. After I found out about all of that, the game just became dull and boring because no one was playing legit anymore.

The game died because the stupid company was not listening to the community nor was it showing any sort of communication towards anyone. Not fixing bugs not changing stupid "features" and half of the time you had to use a location spoof cause pokemon wouldnt spawn around you.

MaggardoPosted: Fri. Jun 02, 2017

I haven't seen anyone touch, or play this game in a decent amount of time. The game started sucking when people began using glitches and hacks to make it change their location in the game. After I found out about all of that, the game just became dull and boring because no one was playing legit anymore.

lbreadsticklPosted: Thu. Jun 01, 2017

Xbox I honestly thought this game would of died out by now.

Yeah, I don't have any, and I mean any friends who still play, so not sure who those 65 million active ones are.

Anyways I was hoping this game would have had the classic battle system to at least take gyms but when I found out the way it was, I only lasted a month. now if it did have the classic battle system with all 4 move slots and pvp for random player encounters and gyms (if the person was still around), not gonna lie I may have spent a decent amount of money depending on what you'd get haha

EchoPosted: Thu. Jun 01, 2017

This game should be dead and buried by now haha, went to the dogs