{"id":1704,"date":"2024-02-03T06:48:13","date_gmt":"2024-02-03T11:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itparadise.net\/2020\/10\/03\/nintendo-is-shutting-down-its-dr-mario-mobile-game\/"},"modified":"2024-08-29T08:57:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T13:57:05","slug":"nintendo-is-shutting-down-its-dr-mario-mobile-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itparadise.net\/?p=1704","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo is shutting down its Dr. Mario mobile game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"jrIlew\">Nintendo has announced that <em>Dr. Mario World<\/em>, a mobile take on the puzzle game series, will go out of service on November 1st, with sales of its in-app \u201cdiamond\u201d currency ending today. The game was launched a little over two years ago, and is the first of Nintendo\u2019s mobile games to be shut down, unless you count the Mii-themed social network Miitomo. <\/p>\n<p id=\"mtL2NP\">According to data from SensorTower collected around six months after its launch, <em>Dr. Mario World<\/em> was by far the worst performing Nintendo smartphone game in terms of revenue performance. That includes <em>Super Mario Run<\/em>, whose disappointing sales prompted Nintendo to pursue freemium models in the first place. <em>Fire Emblem Heroes<\/em> remains the company\u2019s biggest mobile hit by a huge distance, generating more revenue than its other games combined.<\/p>\n<p id=\"iCgtS1\">Nintendo did go out of its way to make <em>Dr. Mario World<\/em> a potential monetization machine rather than a direct translation of the NES-era gameplay, but ultimately it seems like not enough players got hooked for it to be worth continually operating. Mobile games still account for a tiny portion of Nintendo\u2019s overall earnings; last year the company attributed just 3.24 percent of its revenue to \u201cmobile and IP related income,\u201d which includes licensing deals. Almost everything else comes from the Switch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo has announced that Dr. Mario World, a mobile take on the puzzle game&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[79,78,77,81,80],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itparadise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itparadise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itparadise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itparadise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itparadise.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itparadise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1934,"href":"https:\/\/itparadise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions\/1934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itparadise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itparadise.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itparadise.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itparadise.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}