I hate to say it but I think charging $10 for it was a bad idea. Mobile gamers are just too used to free games to ever go back.

It's doing well for what it is though and there's plenty of interest in the game. Also making it Apple-only for several months ... don't think that was a great idea unless Apple paid a lot of money for that.

What the hell do investors want? Did Super Mario Run not have enough micro-transactions or something? Maybe they dislike the idea of a flat rate?

Buy the rumour, sell the fact.

Would've done better had it been 10 worlds, 99 cents a world or 9.99 for all ten

50 million times?

Are they complete idiots. If it was not restricted to IOS only, then that is a fine guess. But being IOS exclusive really shrinks the potential market. You basically upon that announcement cut you potential buyers in 1/4.

They should have done the same ot their "predictions"

Bolded: iOS store brings in a bit more mony than the Android playstore. Porting the game to Android will double the addressable userbase. You know, the userbase that is actually willing to spend money on Apps. It will not be quadrupled with an Android release, it will be doubled at best.

Investors don't know how many people bought the game, no one does at this point. We have estimates that are about as accurate as vgc numbers. It could be much better, it could be much worse.

The stock rose when PoGo was released because, somehow, people didn't know it wasn't a Nintendo game. The stock was falling even when Mario Super Fun was 1 at the grossing-app in 30 countries, and there was also news of 3DS/Pokemon killing November NPD charts. Nintendo's stock isn't indicative of how well or bad Nintendo & SMR are currently doing.

There's always a group that sells, and they don't sell for lack of faith in the company so much as they sell because they know other likeminded people will sell. It's a strange group mentality... things will stabilize.

Assuming the game flopped, the price can be reduced, ads can be introduced.

This is the first true experiment for Nintendo, and it won't be the last. I am sure they will toy with every business model possible on smartphones before they call it quits.

More here: http://fortune.com/2016/09/22/miyamoto-super-mario-run/

I think Apple turning the App store, into a Mario store was enough of an incentive for Nintendo. In addition, many games and apps come to iOS first, Nintendo isn't the only one to do that, and it's good business. Even some Google and Microsoft apps become available first on iOS

The free version for the first 3 levels, it did not manage 10m sales at $10 on Day 1.

I didn't say flop, it will still likely be massively profitable for Nintendo, but it's appeal is limited becaue of the price. You're right in that I think they probably will re-tinker the game and make it free down the line some how.