Pokémon GO has a lot more content now than when it first went out of the gate. Speaking during a recent interview with Wired, Niantic CEO John Hanke explained why the game was released without so many features. “When we left Google, we had a limited amount of money, a funding of 35 million dollars,” he said. “We had a fairly large team and a relatively short amount of time. We worked a long time on it and eventually that just exhausts people. We felt it was time to get noticed.”
Source: Nintendo Everything
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