Nintendo committed to releasing 2 to 3 mobile games every year

A week after Nintendo launched its first true mobile game, Super Mario Run, the Japanese video game studio revealed it is going to aim for 2 to 3 mobile releases starting 2017. It was no secret that Nintendo had a couple of smartphone titles already in the works, but it is now evident that the compa..

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Nintendo breaks App Store record with Super Mario Run

Nintendo has issued a press release that confirms what everybody already knew; Super Mario Run is a big success. The company confirmed that the game was downloaded over 40 million times in the first four days, which broke the previous App Store record set by Nintendo"s other property, Pokémon GO.
Apart from being downloaded like crazy, Super Mario Run is also the top ranking app in the "Free" category in 140 different markets around the world and, more importantly, among the top 10 in the "Top Grossing" list in 100 markets on the App Store.
This is hardly a surprise for multiple reasons. It is the first game Nintendo made by itself for the mobile platform, which also happened to be based on Nintendo"s favorite cash cow, Super Mario. Second, Nintendo"s partnership with Apple also seems to have paid off well, with a lot of marketing for the game by Apple and, for the first time in App Store history, every single App Store slide tiles featuring the sam..

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Super Mario Run: 40 million downloads, not many converted to purchases. Nintendo explains why it decided on $10 pricing

A couple of days ago, we heard that, despite being downloaded quite a lot, Super Mario Run is getting a lot of negative reviews and consumer backlash, which, in turn, caused Nintendo"s stocks to drop by 11%. Today, we have some actual numbers on how many people decided to spend the rather steep..

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Super Mario Run: 25 million downloads, not that many purchases. Nintendo explains why it decided on $10 pricing

A couple of days ago, we heard that, despite being downloaded quite a lot, Super Mario Run is getting a lot of negative reviews and consumer backlash, which, in turn, caused Nintendo"s stocks to drop by 11%. Today, we have some actual numbers on how many people decided to spend the rather steep..

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Nintendo Switch patent suggests possible VR accessory

Nintendo is all set to release its newest hybrid gaming console, the Nintendo Switch, early next year with more details to be announced in January. A member of the NeoGAF forums has shed some light on a bunch of patent applications that were just published in Nintendo’s name. Sometimes we can see some of the planned functions of a product pass through the US Patent Office before it becomes a reality, but oftentimes, a patent might only live on as an idea, never to be realized.
Among these patents, one of the sections (between 0507 through 0516) details the functions of a head-mounted accessory. The patent’s section mentions the use of HMD (likely meaning Head Mounted Display). The text basically describes the interaction between the main console portion, and some kind of head-mounted accessory.
The information processing system may include an accessory to which the main unit 2 can be attached. An HMD accessory to be described below as an example accessory can be used as a so-called H..

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