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Re:Nintendo Soars as Super Mario Mobile Game Comes to the iP... by mcphage on Thursday September 08, 2016 @09:23AM (#12452702)
> Call me cynical, but I still don't believe that you can clone a endless runner game, slap Mario on it, and expect it to be successful on mobile.

Nintendo has a history of taking existing genres they don't have much experience in, making it their own, and releasing really compelling games. Pikmin for RTSes, Splatoon for FPSes, etc. I don't think they're going to half-ass it.

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Re:Nintendo Soars as Super Mario Mobile Game Comes to the iP... by eanzenberg on Thursday September 08, 2016 @12:58PM (#12454779)
Those 2 aren't really successful franchises.
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Re:Nintendo Soars as Super Mario Mobile Game Comes to the iP... by vidarh on Thursday September 08, 2016 @01:15PM (#12454962)
Splatoon is the 6th best selling Wii U title so far, and seems likely to overtake most of the ones above it, which are between 6 months to 2.5 years older. It represents 5% of all Wii U games sold to date, and has reportedly sold faster in Japan than anything since Wii Sports (2006).

Sounds quite successful to me, though of course it's still only a bit over a year old so who knows if it'll last.

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Re:Nintendo Soars as Super Mario Mobile Game Comes to the iP... by eanzenberg on Thursday September 08, 2016 @01:44PM (#12455256)
Wii U though? Seriously?
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Re:Nintendo Soars as Super Mario Mobile Game Comes to the iP... by vidarh on Friday September 09, 2016 @06:16AM (#12460814)
It's also in the top 20 of Wii/Wii U games combined.
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Re:Nintendo Soars as Super Mario Mobile Game Comes to the iP... by cdelsolar on Thursday September 08, 2016 @04:05PM (#12456796)
Yes? There are more than 10M of them.
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