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Nintendo mobile games reach $1 billion in lifetime player spending
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Precisely. I've seen some twist the numbers to show how little Nintendo's apps have made, but it speaks a lot more to how huge Pokémon Go actually is.
Lower than what they get for Switch games (since more companies are involved), but with the numbers Go are pulling their payout is likely pretty significant.
It's definitely successful, but they're also doing a good job cutting off its legs cause year 3 is quite the drop.
Why would the next Fire Emblem be developed by anyone but Intelligent Systems? They were still the brains behind Three Houses even if Koei Tecmo did most of the leg work. They aren't just going to let them make the next one on their own. They'll just be a resource studio and I in fact fully expect the same collaboration for the next console Fire Emblem.
It's launch did amazing but absolutely cratered about four months in.
Cygames isn't the one being generous, they publicly complained about Nintendo holding them back lol
Its because they are so generous that i repeatedly spend money on it.
but it also ruined FEH for me, just cant go back to the horror of Orbs after bathing in the comforts of Wyrmite and a trillion vouchers,
I've been hoping Dragalia Lost would be a success since its announcement solely in hopes of a Switch version. While there are plenty of anime games third parties I want more from Nintendo. lol
Haven't spent a cent on any of these games though. I just can't justify paying for micro-transactions. I'd be down for a one time purchase pass for Dr Mario World that lets me play with infinite stamina. Hell I'd pay up to $50 for that if they offered.
Go, Dragalia!! So happy to see the game growing. My favourite mobile game by far
I believed for a while that he would close out FP1. Well, here's hoping either him or another character get in Fighter's Pass 2.
I believed for a while that he would close out FP1. Well, here's hoping either him or another character get in Fighter's Pass 2.
The first mobile original IP from Nintendo seems like a significant enough thing to warrant inclusion. It will be of historical importance.
Mario Kart Tour is really only good for a few things:
-New courses, including new retro courses like Vanilla Lake
-Introduced Reverse and Trick versions of all courses which absolutely should make their way into other games in the series
-New character renders (but they really need to move away from Mario and Peach variations; the best ones are the likes of HoliDaisy and Bus Driver Waluigi)
-Brought back missions (sorta)
-New items, although the quality of them is hit-or-miss
The actual gacha aspect of it is complete trash. The economy is terrible, and it's so brazenly P2W that it ruins the weekly ranking system. The game at least functions well but it doesn't feel all that rewarding to play. It needed to have proper multiplayer, like, months ago, but even that may not turn out well if they gacha-fy it, as the beta tests have shown.
Sure, but I don't think that's a particularly meaningful distinction in this case. It would be decidedly less generous if it was handled like Cygame's own projects.
I was actually wondering if they just forgot Miitomo, or if the amount it made in its short life was so insignificant it wasn't worth putting in the total
It must have made at least a little money, although I don't really even remember what the money grab element was in that "game"
Not even counting Pokemon GO! Which having having a state in TPC means they are eating well of that.
Nintendo's careful strategy of how they approached mobile meant they could have their cake and eat it too.
Its similar to Microsoft seeing a boon for supporting PC properly.
Nintendo's careful strategy of how they approached mobile meant they could have their cake and eat it too.
Its similar to Microsoft seeing a boon for supporting PC properly.
It was opportunities to play the minigame you get clothes in, I think? Miitomo always struck me more as a way to get people to make Nintendo accounts then a serious money earner.
Dragalia Lost is far more generous than Fire Emblem Heroes or Animal Crossing Pocket Camp, and Cygames' other games are also extremely generous.
Cygames complained that they weren't able to monetize it as much as they'd hoped, but they have a track record of being much more generous in their gacha games than Nintendo.
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i see, so i had it wrong with dragalia lost. i thought it did meh at launch and then got better later, but it's the other way around.
Agreed. I really do enjoy the game for its courses and the returning/new items, but the characters you can get through the gacha mechanic are not enticing at all. Although certainly more creative than the likes of Red Yoshi and Pink Gold Peach, I wouldn't even say Holiday Daisy and Bus Driver Waluigi are worth it. If they would release truly new characters from across the Mario universe (or even untapped ones from past Mario Kart games like Honey Queen and R.O.B.), I'd be more interested in maybe purchasing rubies, but for the most part we're just getting costumes and recolors.
Yeah, SensorTower had it at $75 through mid-February 2019, about 5 months since launch.
So in the year since, it earned less than $50 million.
The game fell off hard after Heralds of Hinomoto.
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i wonder why they keep trying with it tho, if it's not doing too hot. usually f2p games don't get this much new content and events, etc when they're doing bad.
I mean, $50 million isn't insignificant.
Mobile games just tend to have insane profit margins, with the most successful ones being insane.
Regardless, the game definitely seems to be getting cuts, with Japanese VA being reduced in new units' stories and the like.
Mobile games just tend to have insane profit margins, with the most successful ones being insane.
Regardless, the game definitely seems to be getting cuts, with Japanese VA being reduced in new units' stories and the like.
I also contributed as well. I believe I've spent about $150 on Dragalia Lost. It's a really good JRPG.
If you look at FEH and other Nintendo ips that's farmed out on mobile, it's gotta be a general directive interpreted by developers to not nickel and dime players right? Unless DL is given special attention as an original ip.
Doesnt Apple/Google take 30% ? Thats pretty big too. And like you mentioned , the running costs is probably way higher too.
Yes they do, but in that case you'll had to take into account that selling a retail copy entails similar cuts with producing the physical media, shipping it to a retailer and the retailer taking part of the revenu for selling it. Even digital you'd have to take vouchers into account which might drastically reduce the average ARPU, 3 Houses has the luxury of being 1st party so the cut of the owner of the storefront goes to Nintendo regardless but 3rd party wouldn't have that luxury.
I just grazed the surface of costs/cuts entailed with their respective platforms (you can be sure that 3 Houses was a much more expensive game to make than Heroes), the point was just to give a rough idea of revenu, nothing more.
Honestly, I was tempted to cough up for Halloween Rosalina lol
Great to see FEH and Dragalia doing so well! Love playing them, especially Dragalia.
Looks like Dr. Mario World was a bomb, though. Once the puzzles got too difficult to solve on my commute to work, I stopped playing it... which was a month or so after launch? I imagine a lot of others did the same.
I'd love both of these, but especially a Dragalia Switch game! Really hope it happens.
Looks like Dr. Mario World was a bomb, though. Once the puzzles got too difficult to solve on my commute to work, I stopped playing it... which was a month or so after launch? I imagine a lot of others did the same.
I'd love both of these, but especially a Dragalia Switch game! Really hope it happens.
Granblue also give tons of free rolls though. I think the point where Nintendo might be holding them back is no paid cosmetics. Granblue sells costumes that can only be bought with actual money rather than gacha mechanics or in-game currency, but Dragalia doesn't have that at all.
I have no idea how anyone can be convinced to give Dragalia Lost money because they are hyper generous. I've always been f2p in gacha games, for the most part, and I've never been able to get almost ALL of the 5* characters like I have in this.