Pokémon Go maker Niantic will lay off 230 staff - around a quarter of the company - and has cancelled a major up…
Pokémon Go, which remains lucrative, is safe. Indeed, Hanke calls it the company's"top priority" as it slims down and refocuses on the future.Explaining the cuts, Hanke blamed a decline in spending post-Covid and an increasingly competitive AR game market, but also said Niantic itself had to"bear responsibility for our own performance".
Mobile gaming now required"dazzling quality and innovation", with teams able to"build at the highest quality with powerful engagement features quickly and efficiently", Hanke wrote. "Our AR map and platform must deliver the features that developers want in a robust and reliable way. We have not met our goals in all of these areas."
While NBA All-World will shut down and development on Marvel World of Heroes will cease, Niantic's other current slate of games will remain for now - including Nintendo collaboration Pikmin Bloom, virtual pet game Peridot and the upcoming Monster Hunter Now, which is set for full release in September.
Niantic has struggled to follow Pokémon Go with another hit game, and has scrapped ideas for similar titles based around Transformers and
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