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Nintendo grabs iPhone top grossing #1 and #2 in the UK
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No it isn't. But it is.
DecoReturns
Member
Shouldn't we just count the Pokémon company as Nintendo?
That's what I've been doing since forever.
That's what I've been doing since forever.
AbandonedTrolley
Member
Not really as that's discounting the other 66% of the owners. It's certainly heavily associated with them though.
There's no argument, Pokemon is NOT Nintendo.
Yeah will certainly give it a go once it hits Android.
Yep, it's mystically Nintendo though.
Toadthemushroom
Member
This is great news, I hope that this business model proves to be a success on balance. Though I also hope that the "expanded audience" buy it, and that the majority of payers aren't just people who currently own a traditional video games device like a 3DS or a PS4.#
All this asking Nintendo to hurry up and release Super Mario Run on Android is so boring
All this asking Nintendo to hurry up and release Super Mario Run on Android is so boring
At least arguing about Pokemon GO makes the time passing by faster while waiting for the Android version.
J
Jpop
Unconfirmed Member
Nintendo has more than 33% control of Pokemon sorry to burst your bubble. It is basically Nintendo in the end.
There have been tons of good breakdowns over the year as to why.
DecoReturns
Member
I've concluded that getting a iPhone is the fastest way to hurry up.
Apple helped a lot marketing the game, right? Has Nintendo confirmed there is an Android version?
Miles Quaritch
Member
Anecdotal, but everyone I know with an iPhone downloaded this. This is people who don't really game either, they just wanted to see what Mario was like on their phone.
Not sure how many bought the game after the demo ends, but I do know everyone was loving what they played of the first world.
Not sure how many bought the game after the demo ends, but I do know everyone was loving what they played of the first world.
No, I know. People conflate the entirety of it to Nintendo, but that's not to say Nintendo had nothing to do with it
Half a billion seem on the low side for me. Particularly because Mario has lasting power.
And seeing Mario in the app store next to all those crappy games is kind of weird.
Preposterous, it was doing worse than a free internet radio app, it can't top the charrs.
Port begging is not allowed.
Reviews complaining about the price should be removed imo. It's pathetic
How and why is that bad?
How and why is that bad?
HawthorneKitty
Sgt. 2nd Class in the Creep Battalion, Waifu Wars
Not even top 10 in Japan; Nintendo stay losing.
Miles Quaritch
Member
Who's begging for a port? This is a multiplatform game. They're just slow.
Nintendo doesn't have majority in TPC. It's split like 36/32/32 Game Freak, Nintendo & Creatures Inc., but like Niantic, Nintendo own a part of the others
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
Didnt nintendo literally set up the TPC? Like forget shares for a minute, they straight up made TPC with their own two hands. They own them in them most basic sense
Come on, Nintendo themselves has come out and said that Pokemon Go had very limited influence on them financially.
Dark_castle
Junior Member
Never, hopefully.
You're right, my mistake. But Nintendo owns the publishing rights of Pokemon, if I remember correctly.
DecoReturns
Member
I like to imagine sometimes that even Nintendo doesn't know who owns Pokémon sometime.
Hey, maybe it's a question they use for interviews for giggles.
Hey, maybe it's a question they use for interviews for giggles.
Notor!ousG
Member
Thank Apple and Google for that, they created that ecosystem.
DXB-KNIGHT
Member
Next :
to be fair,this game is way overpriced for the amount of actual content in it.
unless they plan on adding more levels for free....
Yep, and majority of trademarks in the west are sole Nintendo, while in Japan they're split
Yeah, because they had so much to deal with in regards to merchandising requests, they felt the need to create TPC. It started off as just a company for the Pokémon Centers in Japan, Pokemon Center Co., Ltd., then in 2000 became Pokemon Co., Ltd. to be more encompassing, and in 2001, Pokémon USA Inc. was set up and later became TPCi
Toadthemushroom
Member
Nintendo isn't slow, it's probably done on Android given it's made with Unity, outside of testing on devices.
Apple worked with Nintendo and has given the game a tremendous amount of marketing (unprecedented exposure on the App Store for three months up until its release, featured in Apple device marketing etc), which benefits Nintendo as much as it does Apple.
It's obvious the wait is due to timed exclusivity (Apple would never have even have announced the app to the world on their stage in September otherwise), not Nintendo being slow.
Tom Nook Sawyer
Member
The fact you think it's overpriced speaks exactly to the problem
Toadthemushroom
Member
The IAP is called "Worlds 1-6", not "full game unlock", so I wouldn't be surprised if Worlds 7-12 land when Mario Switch is released, or when the game launched on Android.
And I wouldn't expect them to be free, since the game's continued development isn't necessarily going to be funded by initial purchases of Worlds 1-6, unlike something like Overwatch where its continued development and costs are being funded by a small proportion of whales that spend a lot of money on in-game purchases.
Toadthemushroom
Member
I've often thought this, it really depends on whether Nintendo's mobile games end up "absorbing" what used to be Nintendo's handheld game-design. Switch is getting 3D Mario, but will it be getting the next evolution of 2D Mario? Mario Run is being billed as that next evolution past NSMB U...
Handheld and console game design has been converging this gen on Nintendo devices, but Nintendo was still making games that were undeniably bespoke handheld titles this gen, like the excellent Rusty's Real Deal Baseball or BoxBoy for instance. I hope that kind of game design can live on on Switch.
Synergie. Look at Poke Sun & Moon sales.
Look at Pokemon Go
Toadthemushroom
Member
Yup. 3DS just saw its highest software spend ever in North America for the month of November, and that has to be Pokémon.
If anything this forces Nintendo to make their games feel more premium than they are right now. If NSMB Switch looks exactly like SMR than yes, people will think like this.
To be fair, Pokemon Go will probably never be matched in what it did, no matter what Nintendo releases. It was / is simply a phenomenon and will be extremely hard to replicate.
The influence it has had on 3DS sales and Sun / Moon is certainly encouraging though. I'm sure Nintendo would be perfectly content with similar sales boosts in the future, even if they won't match the Pokemon Go effect.
The influence it has had on 3DS sales and Sun / Moon is certainly encouraging though. I'm sure Nintendo would be perfectly content with similar sales boosts in the future, even if they won't match the Pokemon Go effect.
From a marketing POV, there are many interesting possibilities. Their iPhone apps could easily link to Switch ads. Through My Nintendo account, they could offer a rebate for Mario Switch if you own Mario Run, etc.
I'm quite certain that this rationale wouldn't have been accepted in Rise of the Tomb Raider threads. I understood "No port begging" to be meant to prevent threads from derailing into discussions about platforms instead of having the discussion about the game itself.
I mean, look at this thread, we have huge screenshots of the Android marketplace charts
But then again, this isn't the OT, but rather a thread about chart performance for a specific platform.. So i guess it's fine here, as it compares charts across multiple platforms.
I'm still rather confused by your post, to be honest as i'd consider "hurry up and release X on platform Y" textbook port begging, even if it is a timed exclusive. :/