Harry Potter: Wizards Unite (assume Pokémon GO, however with wands and big spiders as a substitute of pokéballs and Pikachus) formally launched earlier this week, however with a catch: it was solely accessible within the US, UK, Australia, and New Zealand.
Why? Amongst different causes, a country-by-country rollout helps Niantic make sure that their servers keep steady. By spreading the launch out over time, they’re (hopefully) in a position to determine the place potential server scaling points may be earlier than half the world is yelling on Twitter.
Niantic used an identical rollout technique with Pokémon GO — even nonetheless, their servers had bother staying up. The viral recognition of the sport smashed headfirst into its unproven first draft community structure, and outages had been widespread for weeks. It was weeks earlier than GO expanded past a handful of nations, with many locations not getting the sport for months.
Fortunately for any would-be wizards on the market, it looks like HP:WU’s rollout can be a bit faster. Two days after the official launch, the sport is touchdown in 25 new areas at this time. Here’s the checklist:
- Austria
- Belgium
- Brunei Darussalam
- Canada
- Denmark
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Iceland
- India
- Indonesia
- Ireland
- Italy
- Luxembourg
- Malaysia
- Mexico
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Papua New Guinea
- Philippines
- Portugal
- Singapore
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
I chatted with Niantic CEO John Hanke in regards to the recreation’s launch on ExtraCrunch – you could find that right here.
