10 ways Pokémon Go is one of the summer’s biggest blockbusters

A typical summer blockbuster is something like Finding Dory: a movie that makes hundreds of millions of dollars by bringing people into the theater. But mobile gaming may have introduced a new kind of summer hit.

Pokémon Go is one of the biggest releases of any kind this summer. The GPS-powered location-based monster-seeking game launched to immediate excitement, and it’s easy to stumble across groups wandering around playing it in many big cities. This has made it one of the top releases in the $36.9 billion mobile gaming market — and the fastest U.S. app ever to reach No. 1 on the iOS and Android grossing charts.