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> Nintendo recently released their first iPhone game, Mario Run. > The edges are clear. You pay once, and there’s no other way for Nintendo to extract money fr
by vinceguidry 6y ago
> Nintendo recently released their first iPhone game, Mario Run.
> The edges are clear. You pay once, and there’s no other way for Nintendo to extract money from you. No single player is a mark. There are no whales.
Nintendo didn't make Super Mario Run, nor is it the first game with their name on phones. Their first two games, Pokemon Go and Fire Emblem Heroes, are both very much unbounded and, especially Fire Emblem, there are certainly whales and in-app purchases and all that. I burned well over a thousand dollars on it before I decided enough was enough.
- fredoliveira 6y agoI was pretty sure this was wrong, because there was a lot of hubbub about it being the first Nintendo-made game on phones, so I checked. From Wikipedia: > Super Mario Run is a 2016 side-scrolling platform mobile game developed and published by Nintendo for iOS and Android devices. The game is one of Nintendo's first games developed for mobile devices, and one of the few instances that a game in the Mario series was officially released on non-Nintendo hardware. Pokemon Go was developed (and published) by Niantic, and Fire Emblem Heroes came out over a year later than Super Mario Run did (and is also not a Nintendo game).