Niantic says Pokemon GO launch traffic exceeded expectations by a ludicrous amount

The following info comes from Ed Wu, director of software engineering at Niantic...

- before Pokemon GO's launch, he & his team sat down to look at the player base/growth
- they came up with an estimate of the kind of network traffic they expected
- they used a “ludicrous” estimate of five times that number
- Wu handed those figures over to Google to prepare for launch
- in the first two countries it launched, the game exceeded its network traffic estimates for the entire world
- this happened in a couple of hours and it was trending well on the way towards that five times
- peak traffic was near 50 times more than they had initially estimated