{"id":91554,"date":"2019-04-06T06:45:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T06:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/04\/nintendos_mobile_games_raked_in_usd85_million_during_the_first_quarter_of_2019"},"modified":"2019-04-06T06:45:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T06:45:00","slug":"nintendos-mobile-games-raked-in-85-million-during-the-first-quarter-of-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/04\/06\/nintendos-mobile-games-raked-in-85-million-during-the-first-quarter-of-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo&#8217;s Mobile Games Raked In $85 Million During The First Quarter Of 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a788427cc9002\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a788427cc9002\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Dragalia Lost Mobile IMG\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a788427cc9002\/dragalia-lost-mobile-img.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a788427cc9002\/dragalia-lost-mobile-img.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Dragalia Lost Mobile IMG\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>According to Sensor Tower Store Intelligence data, Nintendo&#8217;s first quarter in 2019 has been its third-best period for mobile gaming revenue to date. The Japanese publisher&#8217;s mobile titles grossed approximately $85 million worldwide across the Google Play and App Store, which is a six percent increase year-over-year. This figure still trails behind the fourth quarter of 2018 ($112.3 million) and the first quarter of 2017 ($106.6 million).<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/mobile\/fire_emblem_heroes\">Fire Emblem Heroes<\/a><\/strong> was the company&#8217;s top earner during this period, with an estimated total of $46.6 million player spending globally. This was a 30 percent decrease when compared to the game&#8217;s first-quarter earnings in 2018 ($66.2 million). However, quarter-over-quarter it was a five percent increase for the title.<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo&#8217;s most recent mobile release <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/mobile\/dragalia_lost\"><strong>Dragalia Lost<\/strong><\/a> suffered from a 55 percent decrease in revenue in the fourth quarter of 2018 (earning roughly $23.4 million), but this was still enough to increase the company&#8217;s overall mobile growth and prevent it from being &#8220;down 23 percent&#8221; from the previous first quarter.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/mobile\/animal_crossing_pocket_camp\">Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp<\/a><\/strong> had somewhat of a resurgence in player spending during the first quarter of 2019, with gross revenue worldwide reaching $12.9. This was a 30 percent increase year-over-year when compared to the $9.9 million it pulled in 2018. Lastly, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/mobile\/super_mario_run\">Super Mario Run<\/a><\/strong> made up just three percent of Nintendo&#8217;s total mobile revenue (approximately $2.3 million) in the most recent quarter &#8211; though, this was a 15 percent increase compared to the fourth quarter of 2018. Compared to the first quarter earnings in 2018 ($3.9 million), this was 41 percent less.<\/p>\n<p>The upcoming mobile releases <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/mobile\/mario_kart_tour\">Mario Kart Tour<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/mobile\/dr_mario_world\">Dr. Mario World<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; releasing in the second half of this year &#8211; are expected to make significant contributions to Nintendo&#8217;s mobile earnings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Sensor Tower Store Intelligence data, Nintendo&#8217;s first quarter in 2019 has been its third-best period for mobile gaming revenue to date. The Japanese publisher&#8217;s mobile titles grossed approximately $85 million worldwide across the Google Play and App Store, which is a six percent increase year-over-year. This figure still trails behind the fourth quarter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}