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Niantic’s follow up to Pokémon Go could incorporate audio cues
June 01, 2025
Unless you’ve been living under a rock the last 15 months, you’re probably well acquainted withPokémon Goby now. TheAugmented Realitygame is one of thebiggest mobile titles everto grace the Play Store. Niantic, the company behind the game, is now dropping some hints at what its next title might look like. Instead of asking players towalk around with their phone in front of their face, Niantic may look to include audio cues instead. According to Niantic CTO Phil Keslin, the company will develop a game that players can interact with in a more natural manner.
Keslin talked a bit about how unnatural it looks when users hold their phones while playing AR games:
Audio cues could easily fix the problem of people feeling like a “doofus” while holding their phones for long periods of time. Players could be alerted to events via the speakers in their phones orearbuds. Receiving a phone call or an audio alert when you’re in close proximity to an event could give you clues, according to Keslin. These ideas came about when Niantic was developing Ingress, but they never made it into the game. It seems that instead of scrapping them all together, Niantic will instead incorporate them into a new game.
So far, we haven’t heard much about Niantic’s next game. It did a great job with Pokémon Go, but that already had a built-in fanbase due to the Pokémon tie-in. Ingress has developed a cult followingsince its release in 2013and has over ten million installs. CanNianticgo 3/3 and develop another hit? Only time will tell.
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