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Bad Reviews For Super Mario Run Are Sending Nintendo's Stock Tumbling (fortune.com)

Posted by msmash on from the bad-reviews dept.

People aren't loving Nintendo's newly released Super Mario Run. Nintendo's stock plunged 7.1% Monday, bringing its total drop since the game's release last week to more than 11%, Bloomberg reports. The game's mediocre reviews had a similar impact on DeNA, the Nintendo partner that helped with the game's development: Since the game's introduction, its stock has fallen 14%. From a report: Reviews in Apple's App Store (so far, the game is only available on iPhone) show an average rating of two and half stars out of five. Overall, there have been nearly 50,000 reviews. Its reviews make it among the lowest rated app among those at the top of the download rankings, according to Bloomberg.

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  1. I dont know what all the hate is for by drummerboybac · · Score: 4, Insightful

    its a continuous run game with some interesting level layouts. Were people expecting a full on Mario game?

    1. Re:I dont know what all the hate is for by mccalli · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Maybe a game called Super Mario RUN is not for you then? It's not for me either - that's not reason for me to give it a bad review. Question is whether it succeeds on its own merits.

    2. Re: I dont know what all the hate is for by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      That's fucking stupid. Of course you don't.

      A game isn't better simply because a past game is good. Nor is it worse for the same reason.

  2. Re:Told ya so. by bluefoxlucid · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Phone-based games are cocaine: low-effort, cheap rewards.

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  3. Re:Told ya so. by arth1 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And if they keep making good games, it will. The power behind the hardware is less important than the quality of the games made for it.

    Very much so.
    Pac-Man ran on a 3 MHz CPU, with a 16 kB ROM and 2 kB RAM + 2 kB video RAM. And you got 60 fps and responsive controls.

  4. Make sense by Chewbacon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You dump a thousand dollars into an iPhone, how the hell can they expect you to pay $10 on a game? That's like 2 days missed at Starbucks.

    Meanwhile, console games went up about $10 and they're flying off the shelves. It's about price? Give me a fucking break.

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  5. Re:People complaining about the cost by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    It's not a Mario game, it's a skinned runner - something that was done to death over five years ago. They've used the Mario name to sucker people, and now they're getting the backlash.

    You know why they released this shit? Because the shareholders are seeing their investment going down the shitter and want their IP on the massive phone/tablet market - where we all know they'll make billions.

    So give it a rest with "entitlement", you sanctimonious twit. The game is shit, the company is dying, and those with real money in the game want their investment returns. Get it?

  6. Re:Must be online DRM for a single player phone ga by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Must be online DRM for a single player phone game is killing it.

    Lol, just like it killed Pokemon Go right?
    No one gives a shit about the online requirements, especially on a phone which is nearly always online, and especially given the amount of content you get from other players in your "single player" game.

    Pokemon Go has a reason to be online... This does not.