Three days with Nintendo's Ł35 Pokémon Go Plus accessory

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Remember Pokémon Go? If your response to this is a shrug, Pokémon Go Plus probably isn't designed for you. If your response is that you're now only three candy away from fully evolving your latest Buddy Pokémon then hello there, do keep reading, you're in good company.
For the uninformed, Pokémon Go Plus is a small Nintendo-made Bluetooth accessory for the popular mobile game which counts your steps and interacts with the main app while it lays open in your phone's background. The Plus lets you catch Pokémon and check in to PokéStops with a single button click, with responses in LED flashes and patterns of vibrations. Interested? It goes on sale today in the UK and around the world, although comes with a not-insignificant price attached: Ł34.99.
When Pokémon Go first launched, everyone was taken aback at the game's success - seemingly including developer Niantic. Anyone playing in those initial few weeks will likely have stories of seeing countless others playing too, perhaps grouping up with them as you hunted down critters using Pokéradar. I remember a posse of us from Eurogamer's Brighton office - writers, coders, sales people - running across the road to capture a Dragonite together.
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