Pokemon Go players in Bosnia warned to watch for mine fields

<p>So much for the console wars. Nintendo is now more valuable than Sony. </p><p>"Pokémon Go"'s success has <a href="http://fortune.com/2016/07/19/thanks-to-pokemon-go-nintendos-market-cap-just-doubled-to-42-billion/" target="_blank">doubled Nintendo's stock valuation</a> to $42.5 billion as of Tuesday morning. Sony was sitting at about $38 billion. </p><p>Just a few weeks ago, much of the conversation about Nintendo was centered on its recent hardware flop, the Wii U. </p><p>But it looks like Nintendo doesn't need a gaming console to prove it can still be a giant.</p><p>"Pokémon Go" will have to prove it's more than just a fad in order to make an impact, but <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-19/nintendo-market-value-passes-sony-on-pokemon-go-frenzy-chart" target="_blank">one Bloomberg analyst</a> seems to think it could stick around. </p><p>"This feels like a real paradigm shift in a way that — when I went back to university in the mid-2000s and I heard about this thing, Facebook. It's a little bit like that moment," said one analyst. </p><p>Nintendo ignored mobile games for years, and it wasn't until its recent struggles that it finally committed to making games for smartphones. </p><p>And "Pokémon Go" is just the first game in Nintendo's mobile expansion. It has at least <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/nintendo-to-make-next-two-mobile-games-free-1462960123" target="_blank">two other free-to-play games</a> in development, as well. </p><p><i>This video includes clips from </i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sj2iQyBTQs" target="_blank"><i>Pokémon</i></a><i> and </i><i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sj2iQyBTQs" target="_blank">Nintendo</a></i><i>, and images from Getty Images.</i></p><hr><b>Trending stories at <a href="http://www.newsy.com">Newsy.com</a></b><ul class="inline-related-links"><li><a href="http://www.newsy.com/videos/looking-for-pok-stops-check-yelp/">Looking For PokéStops? Check Yelp</a></li><li><a href="http://www.newsy.com/videos/gigabit-internet-is-still-almost-uselessly-fast-for-now/">Gigabit Internet Is Still Almost Uselessly Fast — For Now</a></li><li><a href="http://www.newsy.com/videos/nintendo-s-bringing-back-this-classic-gaming-console/">Nintendo's Bringing Back This Classic Gaming Console</a></li></ul>