Wolverton: After Pokémon, where does Nintendo go? By Troy Wolverton, twolverton@bayareanewsgroup.com POSTED: 07/15/2016 06:41:28 PM PDT|UPDATED: ABOUT 15 HOURS AGO If you're like millions of other Americans, you've spent much of your last week or so playing Pokémon Go. But will it lead you to buy other Nintendo games or its next game console that will hit store shelves next year? That's the multibillion-dollar question facing the venerable video game vendor after the runaway success of the augmented reality game that it helped conceive and which was developed by a company it partly owns. Down in the dumps for years, Nintendo desperately needed a success like Pokémon Go. But it's anyone's guess whether and to what degree the Japanese game maker will be able to capitalize on it. http://www.mercurynews.com/troy-wolverton/ci_30133870/wolverton-after-pokemon-where-does-nintendo-go