{"id":261,"date":"2016-12-21T23:36:04","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T23:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digitalija.info\/?p=261"},"modified":"2016-12-21T23:36:04","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T23:36:04","slug":"nintendo-super-mario-run-had-40-million-downloads-in-4-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hepek.info\/portal\/en\/nintendo-super-mario-run-had-40-million-downloads-in-4-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo: Super Mario Run had 40 million downloads in 4 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Super Mario Run was downloaded 40 million times in the first four days of its release worldwide, according to Nintendo. The publisher confirmed that figure in a message on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NintendoAmerica\/status\/811627877976260608\">Twitter<\/a>. That makes the platformer easily the fastest app ever to 40 million downloads in the $36.6 billion mobile-gaming business, and it hasn&#8217;t even launched on Android yet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/QrpMp2\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/538\/31792677555_66b27c1be0.jpg\" alt=\"smr2\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nintendo did not share its revenues, but the game spent the last several days at No. 1 on the grossing list in a number of countries around the world. That means it was likely generating between $2 million and $5 million per day from the United States alone.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SuperMarioRun?src=hash\">#SuperMarioRun<\/a> has reached 40 million downloads worldwide in just 4 days! Thanks for playing, everyone! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GwMcUZwdeW\">pic.twitter.com\/GwMcUZwdeW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NintendoAmerica\/status\/811627877976260608\">December 21, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This early success for Nintendo&#8217;s first mobile game (it previously only released the Miitomo social app in March), represents the company&#8217;s move into an important market that could generate hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. Super Mario Run doesn&#8217;t even use the microtransaction business model that has help games like Clash of Clans and Candy Crush Saga earn more than $1 billion in a year. Instead, Nintendo has made its runner free to download, and then it only asks for $10 to unlock all of its content.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/Pa7y7Y\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/657\/30951895284_f500d67eb6.jpg\" alt=\"smr3\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most other mobile games don&#8217;t have that kind of pay wall and instead let a small percentage of \u201cwhales\u201d spend hundreds \u2014 if not thousands \u2014 of dollars to subsidize the rest of the non-paying audience. This model will likely mean that Super Mario Run will not maintain its place at the top of the grossing chart, and we&#8217;re already seeing that.<\/p>\n<p>The game has dropped from No. 1 after only three days at that position, according to intelligence firm Sensor Tower. Pok\u00e9mon Go, on the other hand, held onto No. 1 on the grossing chart for weeks with its free-to-play microtransactions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-266\" src=\"http:\/\/www.digitalija.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/smr-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hepek.info\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/smr-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.hepek.info\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/smr-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.hepek.info\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/smr.jpeg 843w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2016\/12\/21\/nintendo-super-mario-run-had-40-million-downloads-in-4-days\/\">source<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Mario Run was downloaded 40 million times in the first four days of its release worldwide, according to Nintendo. The publisher confirmed that figure in a message on Twitter. That makes the platformer easily the fastest app ever to 40 million downloads in the $36.6 billion mobile-gaming business, and it hasn&#8217;t even launched on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","footnotes":""},"categories":[258,13,260,241,15],"tags":[477,900,896,902,180,894,892,898],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android-en-smartphone","category-en","category-games","category-news","category-smartphone","tag-android-en","tag-ios","tag-mario","tag-nintendo-en","tag-smartphone","tag-super","tag-super-mario","tag-super-mario-run"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hepek.info\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hepek.info\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hepek.info\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hepek.info\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hepek.info\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hepek.info\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268,"href":"https:\/\/www.hepek.info\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hepek.info\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hepek.info\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hepek.info\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hepek.info\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}