So, Pokemon Go and the unfair advantage
Unfair advantage means something that your company can do that is non-replicable, even if competition does everything else right. And Niantic has that. Let's go back a little. Imagine you have an amazing idea for a an AR (augmented reality) game. You persuade other people about it, make the game a reality, make sure that the game has a lot of player interaction, release it...and it flops. Nobody plays it. Player interaction is useless then and lots and lots of development time has been lost if the player density is too small. (this is also why niantic has been careful about putting such features in for such a long time) Where's the problem? The problem is the target group. The people who care about specific qualities of the gameplay aren't the ones who'll be running around outside with friends. At least most of them aren't. Those are only going to bitch if things are missing, but if they are not, they aren't going to be playing the game anyways. The othe...