Wearable 'Poké mon Go' Device to Launch Next Week
September 08 2016 - 1:20AM
Dow Jones News
TOKYO—A wearable device for playing popular smartphone game
"Poké mon Go" will be released next week, game developer Niantic
Inc. and Poké mon Co. said Thursday.
The announcement came after Apple Inc.'s new iPhone event on
Wednesday, where Alphabet Inc.'s Google spinoff Niantic said it
would provide an Apple Watch version of the popular game.
Poké mon Go Plus, a $35 device, has vibration notifications that
could improve the game's safety. There have been traffic accidents
involving players whose eyes were pinned to their smartphone
screens.
The device, which will be distributed by Nintendo Co., was
originally planned to launch by this past July.
Write to Takashi Mochizuki at takashi.mochizuki@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
September 08, 2016 01:05 ET (05:05 GMT)
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