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Super Mario Run Sets App Store Record With 40 Million Downloads as New Game Mode Rolls Out
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i waited until i got all of the coins for the first three levels and then i bought it. i think it's awesome and worth the price.
10 Worlds would be the finished game. Just would cost $3.99 to unlock the extra worlds. $2.99 entry point would be low enough for many to jump on creating a lot of money for Nintendo. The IAP would be the cherry on top especially if they see folks paying more to unlock the additional 5 worlds. That would indicate demand for more content.
Nintendo overestimated the Mario brand on this one and it shot them in the foot.
Don't ask people who live in basements about playing offline in the real world.
Another limitation is that you can only have 6 members, whereas you could share an Apple ID with 7 or more.
One more limitation is that once a member leaves the Family Sharing, she takes all the purchases she made for the family from her devices, they are now bound to her Apple ID. This can be a good thing, but I find it limiting that this behavior is not configurable, by the family member who provides the credit card for example.
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I shows that you have no experience with the concept of a shared Apple ID that is used for purchases. How come you argue with a whole bunch of people in this thread, when you have no clue about the alternative to Family Sharing?
You don’t even want to understand how sharing a “purchases only” Apple ID works.
i understand how purchases work with an apple id. it's very simple. but, if you can have separate accounts, why not just do that? i don't see the benefit of sharing one account. but hey, it's all about what works for YOU
I'm not defending Nintendo by any means, but how do you figure Nintendo overestimated the demand? If the estimates are to be believed, they cleared $20,000,000 in revenue in 4 days.
$20,000,000 revenue in 4 days on a game that must have a max budget of $5,000,000.
Damn! I need to shoot myself in the foot more often!
I was talking about your understanding of the concept of sharing a “purchases only” Apple ID with the family.
Where everyone uses this ID for the iTunes Store setting only and for everything else they use their personal Apple ID. For everything iCloud (iMessages, reminders, calendars, keychain, etc.), the IMAP Mail account or Game Center.
Well, to be fair, Apple takes $6 million out of that chunk. Not sure who Nintendo has to split their $14 million with. I bet Miyamoto is getting a nice chunk of the revenues.
I noticed that in the shop there is a pink, purple and black pipe that says something like "It has a star on it and when tapped will take you to a secret course".
Sounds like a star world to me.
You can purchase them once you have collected all of the respective coloured coins
Update: I finished all the pink coins and indeed picked up the pink pipe. It gives you a secret course — a single level. It's fun but a lot like existing courses. No Star World.
So if you finish all 3 coin colours, you'll get 3 additional levels, bringing the total to 27 levels over 6 worlds and 3 pipes.
I have absolutely no problem paying $10 for this Game. My issue is paying $10 for each member of my Family to play.
If it was a $10 up front purchase then we could all play for that $10. Making it an In-App purchase means we have to pay $30 for all of us to play the full game. It's ridiculous.
It's been posted many times that you do not have to pay the $10 to unlock the game on multiple devices.
Is it as easy as it would be if it were a straight up $10 purchase? No. But it's not that hard.
Works for folks who use a shared AppleID for AppStore. It also works for people using Family Sharing, but it's a little more of a PITA for Family Sharers.
and my question is simply, why? why not just use your own apple id? no confusion with that.
And this I do not get. Just shows the power of Marketing. Release a dull products, but do a super marketing and you will earn huge money.
At least in my app store is had a 2 star taring and I could only play it for 2 minutes and deleted right away
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At least in my app store is had a 2 star taring and I could only play it for 2 minutes and deleted right away
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Exactly my sentiment!!! Power of marketing
My take is that this game has taken an amazing amount of effort, in terms of development, judging from the polish. It's not just that - the level design is amazing. Serious thought (i.e. time) would have gone into each level, every coin challenge. That's what sets Mario (and Nintendo games in general) from other games. On mobile it's refreshing - a lot of freemium games give no thought to level design. Things just get impossible and the only way to win is to pay. Where is the satisfaction in that?
I always said family sharing was a scam. Back when it was new people told me I was cynical and shouldn't worry. But here we are. That was clearly why it was invented.
how is it a scam? you don't have to pay anything to use the feature. whether you have family sharing or not, the price of the app is still $10
Provide a link to the estimates please. Everyone downloading a free demo and a few buying the full version would not trump my proposal. We will never know though.
I dunno, it's the other poster who is telling me it cost him $30. I'm taking him at his word but I guess I don't know that he's telling the truth.
I would buy the game for me and my family if it cost $10 flat, up front and supported family sharing.
As an in-app purchase, I would have to buy it again and again for each of my kids and the app would end up costing about $40 for all of us. It's definitely NOT a $40 game and I can't justify buying it for $10 over and over. With a platform game, everyone in the house can play together on the same console.
Fix the pricing and enable family sharing and they would find a lot more revenue rolling in. $10 for a stupid phone game, sure ... I spend that on a combo meal for lunch and can certainly afford to skip one of those. But $40 for the game ... nah, that starts to feel like there's a better opportunity cost out there.
-- Dante
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As an in-app purchase, I would have to buy it again and again for each of my kids and the app would end up costing about $40 for all of us. It's definitely NOT a $40 game and I can't justify buying it for $10 over and over. With a platform game, everyone in the house can play together on the same console.
Fix the pricing and enable family sharing and they would find a lot more revenue rolling in. $10 for a stupid phone game, sure ... I spend that on a combo meal for lunch and can certainly afford to skip one of those. But $40 for the game ... nah, that starts to feel like there's a better opportunity cost out there.
-- Dante
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Nintendo investors have been thinking that what Nintendo needs is a jump to mobile and possibly abandon their hardware platform and focus on software ... similar to what Sega ended up doing years back. If this first major venture of Nintendo's ends up being a big bust, it foreshadows that the whole future of the company is in doubt and that maybe we are looking at the end of an era and the end of Nintendo. Already WiiU games have been removed from shelves of GameStop and we are being that only PlayStation and Xbox are surviving into the future. Combine that fact that gamers see the future as being about VR and Nintendo has no R&D there ... it surely puts a lot of pressure on Nintendo to get this mobile jump right or doom them forever.
I must be missing it because the first post actually backs up my thoughts and no sales figures are presented. I admittedly skimmed through it though.