Niantic, developer of the mobile game Pokemon Go, has opened up an office in Japan. This will be the companyÔÇÖs first subsidiary overall.

The office was created on December 3 in TokyoÔÇÖs Minato ward. ItÔÇÖll be used to develop top-level real-world games as well as a platform using AR and mapping. Industry insider Dr. Serkan Toto also offers up the following speculation:

ÔÇ£Generally speaking, Japanese gaming companies (I mean Nintendo in this specific case) love going vertical by becoming platforms if any opportunity to do so opens up: so it might very well be that Pokemon is not the only Nintendo mobile game that will make use of AR and GPS going forward.ÔÇØ

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