Niantic, which recorded a worldwide mega hit with the sport ‘Pokemon Go’, recently released an augmented reality (AR) game. The response to this has been known to be cold.

The Japan Times reported on the twenty second that Niantic’s training simulation game ‘Peridot’ for mobile phones is experiencing the identical sluggishness because the metaverse.

In response to this, Niantic released Peridot, which grows a digital pet through a cell phone camera on the ninth. It only reached 675,000 downloads in 13 to five days, and the app store reviews were harsh.

It is thought that this includes things from declaring that the AR function is inconsistent to writing that it drains the battery of the phone quickly. The sport currently has a rating of three out of 5 on the App Store.

The Japan Times identified that this phenomenon represents the recent decline within the metaverse.

Niantic released Pokemon Go in 2017, earning 1 billion downloads and 6.6 billion dollars (about 8.7 trillion won) worldwide. Nevertheless, the ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘NBA’ series that got here out later all failed on the box office, and the ‘Lightship’, a game production platform for the metaverse developed by investing greater than $770 million (roughly 1.14 trillion won), was also a star. He said he didn’t get a response.

Nevertheless, Niantic spokesman Marc von Rommel said: “Peridot might be the world’s first mobile game to be played entirely in AR. We’re just getting began. Fairly than expecting Peridot to be an overnight hit, we’re experimenting with AR. We see it as a long-term project that may showcase the potential of creative game design.”

On this regard, Pokemon Company International, resembling Nintendo, which holds Pokemon’s IP, was also engulfed in speculation that it had began developing metaverse games by hiring metaverse experts in March.

Nevertheless, the actual development of the sport has not been reported for 2 months.

Reporter Kang Doo-won alexduwon@naver.com