Pokemon Go is on Apple Watch.
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Pokémon Go is coming to the Apple Watch after 500 million downloads

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Pokémon Go has been downloaded more than 500 million times to date on smartphones. And now, it’s coming to the Apple Watch.

CEO John Hanke of Niantic Labs, the creator of the wildly successful game, announced the numbers and the Apple Watch on stage at Apple’s event today.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.