Pokemon Unite Mobile Game is one of the most anticipated mobile games this year is now available on your phone – The popular Switch game has garnered around 5 million pre-registrations, according to the company itself, and it’s now available to download on Android or iOS.
You can find the Play Store link here for Android devices and App Store link here for iPhones, and they’ll bring you to the store listing pages (if you’re on your phone) where you can download the game – that is, if you weren’t one of the millions of people to pre-register, in which case it’ll download automatically
Pokemon Unite is what’s known as a multiplayer online battle arena game, or MOBA, where two teams of five players compete to earn more points by collecting Pokemon then using them to fight – it’s been live on Switch for two months now, where it saw nine million downloads.
Pokemon Unite gets a huge pre-registration thumbs up
However, prolific mobile gamers may have pricked up their ears at one particular word in that previous paragraph: ‘multiplayer’. You see, mobile games which require internet connections have had troubled launches of late, and it’s natural to be uneasy at the introduction of another such title.
Pokemon Unite launches on mobile today
When a popular game releases, excited gamers all rush to play it as soon as possible, which means there’s a lot of demand on the servers. That’s why people can’t connect – there’s not enough supply of server space.
On Pokemon Unite launch day, popularity (and therefore server demand) could ebb and flow as each new region gains access to the game.