Pokemon Go down: Servers still struggling due to immense popularity of app

The developers say they're working on it

Ash Ketchum might have had to deal with the pesky Team Rocket, but at least server problems were never an issue.

Would-be Pokémon GO users are struggling to get on the app for the third day straight, with many being met following sign-in with a message saying: "Our servers are experiencing issues. Please come back later."

To make matters worse, when you reboot the app it makes you go through the whole email-and-password sign-in process again.

This would be forgivable on the day of launch, but the problem is still occurring for a hell of a lot of users three days in.

It's all down to the game's immense popularity. Pokémon has always been a very buzzy franchise, but with the added augmented reality aspect it's attracted droves of fans - nostalgists and new.

"Due to the incredible number of #PokemonGO downloads, some Trainers may experience sign-up difficulties" the developers tweeted. "Don’t worry, our team is on it!"

Hilariously, police in Australia were forced to weigh in on Pokémon GO a couple of days ago, after people kept trying to get into the Darwin police station to catch a Sandshrew.