When Wizards United of Niantic Labs announced the release of Harry Potter, many coaches wondered if this was the end of the game. However, the Niantic studies confirmed that no, that the Pokémon hunt would continue.
"The Pokémon GO development team is one hundred percent committed to creating a game in continuous change that makes our players explore, know and deepen their connection with the Pokémon universe," they said in a statement.
"Players will immerse themselves in adventures, learn and cast spells, discover mysterious artifacts and encounter legendary beasts and iconic characters." This is how Warner Bros. describes in a press release what the Harry Potter-based augmented reality video game prepared by Niantic will be like, the company that developed the videogame 'Pokémon Go'.
The popular game attracted in its day a flood of users and became a momentary social phenomenon. Now augmented reality will recur to nostalgia, in this case with the iconography of the magician child as a claim.
Few details are known about the new title apart from the name, 'Harry Potter: Wizards Unite'. Because on the official website of the game there are only a few short lines that present the project under the exclamation of "prepared wands". They claim that the game will arrive "soon", which means absolutely nothing, unless you are working on it. But the wheel of advertising has already been launched: there are both Twitter and Facebook accounts on the future title, although no significant developments are expected in this respect until at least the beginning of 2018.
So far what is known, now what can be expected. And the first thing is that the Harry Potter video game will predictably follow the same formula as 'Pokémon Go'. Niantic collaborates with Warner Bros Games San Francisco, the developer branch of videogames of the production company, to create the title, but it can be deduced that the soul that will bring functionality to the project will be precisely Niantic as it happened with 'Pokémon Go', where Nintendo He put the brand above all.
You can also expect 'Harry Potter: Wizards Unite' to allow users to explore the real world with the help of their smartphone's sensors. Predictably the camera or GPS, as in 'Pokémon Go', will play a central role in the video game.
If the ingredients of 'Pokémon Go' were nostalgia and a functionality that allowed interaction with the physical world, as well as with other players who were nearby, the wicks of the Harry Potter video game seem to be practically the same. Different public, perhaps broader because the saga has spread over time and has enjoyed a global promotion thanks to the cinematographic blockbusters, but we will have to see if so delivered. In addition, the new title will have a handicap: the first has not arrived.
As for the release date, no clues have been given, just one indicator: when Niantic announced that it worked on 'Pokémon Go' it was September 2015 and the video game arrived in July 2016. Will it take 'Harry Potter: Wizards Unite' Less than a year to come to light? Of course, summer seems like a good time to launch a game that requires going out to be played.
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