Niantic Labs has been hinting at including a trading system in "Pokémon GO," but will this new feature enough to keep its players interested?

Speaking on the latest episode of the Recode Decode podcast, Niantic Labs CEO John Hanke acknowledged that the team has a lot of work to do on the game, following its massively successful launch.

"It's been a busy two months," Hanke said, "so we're now happy that we're kind of stabilized and able to start being a little more thoughtful about the next set of features that we want to build."

Hanke then went on to say that Niantic is planning to release the much awaited Trading system for the game next. The Niantic CEO also said the same thing during TechCrunch's DisruptSF 2016.

However, players are growing increasingly frustrated with Niantic as the developer is taking a long time to drop updates, and has remained vague with release dates. Some have also said that while trading is one of the much awaited features to be introduced in "Pokémon GO," this alone is not enough to entice players to pick up the game again.

Trading is a very important element in any Pokémon game, and "Pokémon GO" is no different. However, the feature should have been added at least two to three weeks after launch, when tons of people are still collecting Pokémon compared to today.

Some have also voiced out their concerns about the game's broken tracking system. Niantic has still not given any updates regarding this feature, despite seemingly finishing its numerous tests on its new nearby tracking system.

So what's taking Niantic so long? CEO John Hanke has admitted that the team has been extremely busy with the game's servers alone, which prevented them from moving on and actually focusing on contents for the game.

"Pokémon GO"'s lack of decent updates will drive the once popular augmented reality into an early grave, and Niantic must do something to revive the game again.

What's next for "Pokémon GO"? Stay tuned for more updates.