A few months ago, it was announced that The Pokémon Company and Nintendo are collaborating with Niantic Labs to create Pokémon GO. The augmented reality game will be on iOS and Andriod and is scheduled for a 2016 release. In a recent interview, Niantic’s CEO John Hanke and chief marketing officer Mike Quigley revealed some new information about the game.

When asked if the game would be similar to other MMOs, such as

World of Warcraft, Hanke states that Pokémon GO has the potential to be bigger than WoW. There are a huge amount of smartphone owners, so there is a huge potential population of players.

Here’s the full quote:

“I think we can be bigger than World of Warcraft. There are more mobile devices than gaming-configured PCs out there.”

— John Hanke

Pokémon is already an incredibly established and popular series, so maybe the game really will have the potential to have more users than World of Warcraft. Let us know in the comments what you think!

Source: VentureBeat

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