The augmented reality mobile game went viral upon its release in 2016 and following the latest revision - which went live for download on June 12 - director Michael Steranka has teased that there is still "more to come" with future releases. He told Eurogamer: "New Pokémon releases over time, even before that [thread on Reddit] came out, was something very top of mind for us - we felt like, actually, yeah, it seems we slowed down a little bit on this stuff and we don't want to operate the game in that way. He added: "We also know there's a finite amount of Pokémon, at least released in the main series games.