that's not really a fair comparison. wake me up when nintendo games cost a few bucks/free version. of course it's going to make more money then anything else,if it's a popular game on mobile. I'm pretty sure it's made more then any xbox,playstation game also.

I loathe some of the smart phone games practices. Candy Crush is one of those games. It's fun, but the microtransactions are disgusting.

What games did Nintendo released last quarter?

Talk to me in five years, let's see which of them are on top then.

I totally agree.

just like farmville earning more profits than major gaming company back in 09, 10 or 11

Of course they did. Candy Crush is a huge success.

AND?!

Stupid people pay 50+ over getting a few digital diamons so they cn skip levels ect.

This doesn't make much sense... They're saving money by making hardware since their games won't cost as much to make as the competitors, thus increasing the chances of profit. And consoles cost more than $300-$400 to make. They're making millions of them, not one.

It seems pretty likely.  King had 1,884m in revenue last year and 606m in the first quarter of this year.  If Candy Crush is actually 2/3 of revenue as the article says then it has made 1,643m in the past five quarters.  Add in the 1.5+ years it was on facebook and the launch on ios/android back in 2012 and it is probably a decent amount higher.  Mario Kart Wii has shipped 35.53m as of March 2014.  At $50 a game it would be at 1,776.5m, but Nintendo doesn't get that much per unit (at least in the US), and quite a few million of those copies were bundled.

It also looks like King beat Nintendo's software revenue by a pretty huge margin last quarter.  They were about 43% higher.