Super Mario Run (Photo : YouTube/Nintendo Mobile)
It seems that the hype eventually paid off as Nintendo's first ever game app "Super Mario Run," garnered quite a reception upon its release as it raked in almost three million downloads during its first day of release. Nonetheless, the initial projected earnings of the new app were reduced way lower as compared to the previous forecast.
Research firm SuperData made a target projection about "Super Mario Run's" earnings a month prior to its release. As per Gamespot, the firm predicted that the game app will be banking in $60 million during its first month of release. However, SuperData may have seen something in the app's current trend in sales and downloads as the projected earnings was toned downed to just $15 million.
The data research company pointed out that one of the factors why they altered such prediction is due to its price tag of $10 in order to play the full game, though they said that it is likely to go down after the Holidays. Moreover, the said company also highlighted the mobile game's restrictive nature since it was made known prior to its release that the newly released app requires internet connectivity.
Meanwhile, it is said that the auto-runner will also be gracing Android devices sometime next year, though Nintendo has to make an official statement about it. Having that said, the anticipation for it land on Android is also high that some indie developers already published rip-offs of the said game on Google's Play Store, Digital Trends mentioned. One of the notable mentions is the app monikered as "Super Plumber Run" from game developer Onduck Games.
There was even a gameplay video of the app that was uploaded just recently from which the developer took notice of and even thanked the uploader of the said clip.
