Devoted fans had mixed reactions when The Pokémon Company, in partnership with Nintendo and Niantic Inc., announced last month that it will be releasing an augmented-reality mobile game called "Pokémon GO" next year.

Followers of the highly popular video game series were also torn about the game's live-action trailer. Some couldn't help but be excited while others thought it was too deceiving.

According to Paul Tassi from Forbes Tech, the cinematic teaser has created impossibly high expectations for "Pokémon Go." Of course, Nintendo would not make the game laughably underwhelming but the finished product would be totally disconnected from what is currently being advertised.

"This all feels a bit too good to be true for me, as I'm having flashbacks to when I was a kid and I was hearing about a pair of awesome new Pokémon games for the N64. I thought at last, the time had come for a fully 3D Pokemon experience, but instead I got an incredibly limited battle sim in the form of Pokémon Stadium," said Tassi.

"Pokémon GO" carries over the major tenants of the long-standing "Pokémon" video game franchise, albeit with a modern twist. It encourages players to search, capture, train and battle Pokémon on the streets in real-time.

Just this month, rumors of "Pokémon GO" getting canceled began proliferating online. It wasn't difficult for many to believe the news due to the game's seemingly ambitious concept. Fortunately, Kotaku recently reported that this simply wasn't true.

Apparently, it was all just a hoax and the game is still in development. The rumors might have subsided, but they have now been replaced by growing concerns regarding the game's privacy and security.

Slate pointed out that "Pokémon GO" entails players to go outside the comforts of their own homes to capture Pokémon and do battle with other players. This setup puts tweens and teens at risk of interacting with malicious players.

Not only that, troublemakers could also utilize the game's mapping system to pinpoint potential victims while data gathered on "Pokémon GO" could possibly be sold to third parties.

For their part, Niantic Inc. has assured that the issues have been taken into consideration and more information about the game will be revealed in mid-October.

"We're not quite ready to talk in more depth about Pokémon GO than what was revealed in the announcement press release and assets. Come mid-October we'll be able to start going into more depth about our plans for the game, and about our plans for real world gaming overall," Niantic spokesperson Evan Dexter told Nintendo Insider.

"Pokémon GO" will be available for iOS and Android sometime in 2016.