The hype train had to start slowing down eventually. Regardless of what happens in the coming few months, Pokemon GO [Free] was the unequivocal mobile event of the year, and a rare example of when gaming managed to permeate into everyday life on a worldwide scale. It has been extremely enjoyable writing stories about some of the interesting, creative and outright strange things that people have done in relation to the pop culture craze, whether that's through attempts to cheat the hatching mechanic through drones, or even special iPhone cases that help you throw Pokeballs in a straight line. However, this initial hype was always going to slow down, and while it is extremely difficult to analyse such patterns, some recent stats that were published on the Pokemon GO subreddit suggest that amongst a certain group of fans, popularity of the augmented reality creature catching title is starting to wane. View post on imgur.com

From the graphs created by community member NotABiscuit, unique visitors, page views and subscriptions have all fallen relatively dramatically between June and August. Unique visitors has decreased from around 12 million to 8 million, with page views falling more than half, from approximately 220 million to under 100m. If unique visitors and page views are evaluated by day, there is an evident negative correlation between time and amount of views. Furthermore, in the past week alone, r/PokemonGo has lost over five thousand subscribers, and there have been ...