In its latest financial report Nintendo has posted some impressive results for its mobile business. Citing action RPG and new IP Dragalia Lost as an especially strong driver in this area, the Kyoto company reports an income of 46 billion yen (just shy of £320 million or over $411 million). That represents a sizeable increase of 17% year-on-year in its mobile-related endeavours.
With Mario Kart Tour set to release soon (there's a closed beta for Android users starting next month), After tentatively dipping its toe in with Super Mario Run, Nintendo has dived into mobile and is now doing furious lengths of the pool, with Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, Fire Emblem Heroes and the aforementioned Dragalia Lost all doing gangbusters.
With strong results also posted for the company's console business, there's no need to worry about Nintendo abandoning the hardware business just yet, but after a slow start (and a stumble with Miitomo), it's impressive to see how quickly its taken to mobile game development.
Have you enjoyed Nintendo's mobile output until now? Are you looking forward to the upcoming Mario Kart Tour? Tell us below...
[source nintendo.co.jp]
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I also having surprising amounts of fun with Magikarp Jump (I know that's GameFreak not Nintendo)
Spreading availability of these mobile games to more regions would be great :/
I only use my phone for making calls and sexting that’s it, good for Nintendo tho
"Nintendo doesn't understand the new markets."
"Nintendo shouldn't 'waste time' on mobile games."
"Nintendo doesn't even WANT the mobile audience."
We've all been saying different versions of these, but I think we're going to have to put the skepticism to rest. Nintendo isn't going to stop when this is the kind of money coming in. It doesn't yet rival the numbers from their traditional games, but it's impossible to ignore now.
I would probably pick Dragalia Lost back up if they ported it to the Switch with optional analog controls. I just really get turned off by the F2P resource/time restrictions. Just let me pay an upfront amount to remove all the F2P restrictions.
I play Pokemon Go while I commute and I play Hearthstone on the train. And the HS mobile client is strictly inferior to the PC client.
I played Fire Emblem Heroes for a time but it just feels like the shell of Fire Emblem without the soul of the game. And I just could not get into the Animal Crossing Mobile game at all.
I haven't tried Dragalia Lost. I suppose I should at least give it a chance. But playing a F2P touch screen based RPG doesn't sound appealing at all.
I'm shocked that Nintendo doesn't seem to expect their mobile business to improve much at all during this current fiscal year.
Sounds like they have modest expectations for Mario Kart Tour.
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