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

Posted by msmash on Monday December 19, 2016 @02:45AM 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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Re:Told ya so. by arth1 · 2016-12-19 03:23 · 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.