With that said, there’s a bit of interesting history here when it comes to Pokémon GO, which actually started out as an April Fool’s Day joke. Google, king of all April Fool’s Day goofs, had “Pokémon Challenge” be its Google Maps joke back in 2014, unveiling a “game” that had players tracking Pokémon on the map and going to real world locations to catch them. So I suppose GO is proof that yes, sometimes, April Fool’s Day can be not terrible. This history with roots in April Fool’s Day makes me somewhat surprised that Niantic is apparently not doing anything for the occasion. !”), but I do think they missed an obvious opportunity for a one-day joke on players.

Source: Forbes April 01, 2017 15:00 UTC