The gargantuan success that is Pokemon Go (Nintendo’s first foray into the mobile gaming market) has boosted Nintendo’s stock market cap by a staggering $7.5 billion, the highest single-day surge in value the company has experienced since 1983.
Pokemon Go has reportedly been installed on more than 5 percent of Android devices in the US, with the game currently only being available in the United States, Australia and New Zealand – releases in other countries (and potentially its largest market, Japan) have unfortunately been delayed due to the technical difficulties the company has been suffering in an attempt to keep up with the colossal demand.
While this profitable event may seem to be in Nintendo’s favor, the app itself was created by Niantic (developers who specialize in augmented reality) in cooperation with Pokemon Company, with Nintendo receiving about 30% of Pokemon Go’s total revenue.
Pokemon Go is however free to play and naturally generates most of its revenue through the oft despised (but highly effective) micro-transactions, having raked in some $4-5 million on its first day.
One analyst however has calculated that the game will need to churn out from $140 million to $196 million in revenue each month in order to have any substantial effect on Nintendo’s profits, a task that would likely not prove difficult considering the marketing tie-ins and collaborations that the game will inevitably be subjected to.
Just whether Nintendo will be able to maintain the interest of its newly won mobile player base will likely be an even more important influence on the company’s future than any further console hardware releases it may be planning, marking a bold new chapter in the company’s history…
had to laugh at the people that are posting porn pixx with the app lol
Make sure ALL your Mario Mobile games are exclusively Android. Don’t sell games to those rich, white-boy, Apple users.
Um… Black Lives Matter?
I can unfortunately see a lot of lawsuits in nintendo’s future because of this though.
With a number of peoples houses getting turned into gyms, its only a matter of time before someone gets shot or sends a lawsuit to them.
Took a up skirt of a 11 or so year old girl who was walking down the street playing this. She almost got hit by a bus. I got half a vagina lip and strawberry print.
I see shooting for them while they’re young, aren’t ya, Tex?
IT PRINTS MONEY!!!1
Game sucks, i live in the middle of no where, there’s no gyms or anything showing up, so all i can do is catch them, with no way to train or battle.
I live in the middle of nowhere also. I can’t even get any pokemon to show up where I live it. I’d actually have to drive in to town just to catch anything. -.-
wtf is a pokemon?
it’s a shit that was popular 15 years ago, and now was miraculously revived by Nintendo necrophiles.
Pokemon GO is a good example of lowest common denominator product reach. The game is about as shallow as tic tac toe with nothing thrilling beyond “CHECK OUT MY ((((No one would usually care about in regular games))) Psyduck!!!” It’s awful, and will signal for more bullshit just like it by Nintendo and other companies.
I have to disagree with you.
People have a reason to go out now.
remind me a little of goehache and I find it quite clever how they combined the core elements of searching for pokemons in the wild and going out and meeting people.
And like you said no body would normally care for random pokemon, well now they do.
personally, I am not a fan of pokemon stuff and haven’t tried it out.
And I’m not into the hype either. BUT i still can’t understand all this negativity towards it.
People will die from the distraction. I will be taking advantage of all the little children as well.
Just look for a school next to a main road. Grab a chair and wait for Tesla cars to run over unattentive children, take their money and get rich!!
Well I hope this is a motivator that helps Nintendo move to the mobile market. They certainly aren’t having any luck in the console market, mostly due to their lack of resources/stagnation/stupidity.
The console market will probably have a diminished future in 10 years and Nintendo certainly doesn’t have a future on their current path.
Let’s hope those dumbasses use that money to make good game for the NX.
I can only hope that Nintendo recognizes the hunger people have for their merchandise on platforms that people actually want. They sure as hell don’t have the resources like Sony or Microsoft to make their platforms up to par with the rest.
But that might be a good thing because the console market isn’t going to have a lot of money for any business 10 years from now.
Uh, Nintendo is worth more than Sony. And that is all of Sony, not just the video game console department while Nintendo is literally just that. We may not like it, but they always find ways to sell their trash.
Somewhere at Nintendo HQ an exec is saying.
Fools and their money are soon parted.
Blehhh. Let me know when they make a decent new Metroid.
Metroid is dead to Nintendo. They’re trolling us with Federation Force.
Nintendo is good on marketing thats for sure, while i didn’t really have any interest in pokemon go i ended up trying it either ways
If they want this to be a continued success, they gotta improve the servers and make the game less buggy to play.
I DESPISE games where it feels like I’m combating a buggy UI just to play.
They also have to add real battles instead of this “fight the other racer’s ghost” shit and experience points instead of this “catch the same pokemon 10 times in order to level up” shit
Also i feel nothing for that dull, crappy gen 1 roster, needs gen 3 and beyond.
I wonder if this will quickly die out like Miitomo. No one talks about that shit anymore, but people went nuts over it the first week.
I feel it will get stale like a fad.
I used to say that about Pokemon in general, back in 1999.
Wouldn’t surprise me.
Heh I had to bring 2 portable chargers when playing pokemon go last weekend.
I wish they place gym near charging stations..
Its ingress with a pokemon skin.
Of course, but it works. I will wait for MonHun GO or something similar, but there’s actually a market for this kind of game using famous IPs.
Second foray, not first, Miitomo was first.
Also, dunno if people know this but Niantic’s people have ties to the (((Defense industry))).
Yeah, granting full permission to your Google account to some shady NSA contractor is just stupid.
$7.5B
Why can’t they afford to pay for some new servers to release the game globally, or at least sort out the fact that the current player base are effectively ddosing what few servers there are just by playing?
Wong-lords, that’s why. They’re a bunch of wong-lords.
New servers take time and money, and if interest dies out then they’re left with useless hardware they can try to sell used to recoup the losses of bringing the servers on line.
I do agree they need to get new servers up as fast as they can, but they’ll be cautious and try to balance the increased cost in overhead vs money lost due to lack of resources.
pretty sure its Niantic thats responsible for Pokemon Go product, not Nintendo.
And even if it was direct profit to the company in control. It would take time for them to implement more servers. Also the game just released. So the extra servers will prove useless in a few weeks as game hype dies down a bit.
Until they begin to release the next generations of pokemon
Nope, because stocks cap != revenue, that’s why.
Nintendo didn’t earn 7.5B.
I highly doubt that Japan will be the biggest market for Pokemon Go, when America is eating it up at the rate it is.
Depends while the USA has more people, japan is far more mobile affine than any other country.
I think the same thing, i also get the feeling Pokemon and Zelda are more popular in america than in japan right now.
>pokemon and Zelda
Lol nope.
You’re right about Zelda though, definitely. Zelda and Metroid are two “main-US nintendo products. Pokemon is fine though.
And given the density in Japan I think it will work even better. That’s exacty the kind of things they usually like and there is less people living underground here than in the US, which is the main problem of the game.
that’s because Japanese are more picky with games
Fools and their money are soon parted.
so as your body and soul.Your body may rot, but your soul is mine.
Now lets see if this is a trend, Nintendo.
If it is then your days of console gaming are over.
(I’m actually quite ready for it.)
Your body is ready?
Pokemon is so bad. I can’t believe how popular it is in the US.
And that is just your opinion.
I don’t like pokemon stuff either.
But not gonna call it bad just because I don’t like it.
It spy on you every ass! HUGE SPY! PURE SPY!
OMG, Nintendo is like Apple of game industry!
Making tons of money, with bunch of shitty products, that are remakes of shitty products of the past.
Go back to Xbone you walnut.
Oh, I’m sorry, did I hurt tender feelings of you pokemon fappers community?)
Wow, so scary. Let’s talk about this “popularity” after a few months.
Did pokemon get under your skin for some reason?
can’t take it when something you don’t like is popular?
Why did this comment get disliked? comparing nintendo to apple is pretty reckless but the second statement is pretty much accurate, they’re just re-selling pokemon red and blue but with more retarded mechanics, i remember when pokemon used to fight in order to level up and capture others, also for some reason they only have 2 attacks now? geez and people said Yokai Watch was too simple.
And yeah, it means that it isn’t a “core” pokemon game. Nobody ever said it was. But if not following the rules make it a “non-pokemon game”, well, go to hell puzzle league, snap (despite being really well-liked and really simple too), mystery dungeon, trozei, etc.
>terrible
Because that’s your opinion and fuck you if you’re a narrow-minded idiot. While the mechanics are simple it isn’t supposed to be a TECHNICAL video game, it’s supposed to be some kind of social game, therefore the “real life” part matters as much as the “game” one and what’ important is how they interact. Making a game overly complicated doesn’t make it a good game just like making it simple doesn’t make it a bad one. If one day you understand that you are supposed to judge something for what it is/is supposed to be, and not for what you WANT it to be yourself, you might get it. Because right now even if it’s not what YOU want it to be it’s enough for a LOT of people to like it. Don’t compare go to fucking Dark souls 3 or any “lol hardcore game” you what, they are not even comparable in the first place. People don’t complain at Mario because you cannot grab a gun and shoot everthing in it. It just means that the part that are the “most important” in the game for you that were watered down were not the “most important” for most people, that’s it, while it IS simple gameplay-wise the interaction do the trick for most people and it asks you things other VG do not (fucking going outside, for one), which allows you to progress in the game without letting you stuck at home, a bit like a more evolved pokewalker. Both “hardcore games” and theses ones have their advantages and more importantly their goals, wanting one while looking at the other is nonsense.If I want rpg game, I will not play Battlefield and then say that it isn’t “RPG” enough.
It was disliked because people are really enjoying the product right now. Including people using this website. Not really that difficult of a concept to understand. I have a friend who is completely enthralled by this game/AR thing.
Because they have nothing to say against that post. When you don’t have solid counter arguments – downvote! That’s how it works in Internet.
“that’s whyh youdon’t see them”
“BLEH I DON’T LIKE THAT” isn’t a good argument. In fact it isn’t an argument at all, to begin with. It’s just being narrow-minded and thinking that your standards and what you care for are the only existing ones.
And your eyes are in your ass. That is why you don’t see them 🙂
You have neither arguments no counter arguments.