Wow, Rol was right with literally the next post.

Really curious to see how much revenue this game actually gives Nintendo.

“We have come to hold a stronger passion and vision for the video games console” with this decision, Iwata said. Essentially, he believes that compelling mobile games can act as a “bridge” that pushes more consumers to buy dedicated Nintendo games consoles. 

This is taken from Nintendo/DeNA announcement.

Mario Run will make money, it's developed for one of the cheapest OS'es to develop for, after all. But it's not the primary goal. Have you seen this? 

I don't see how I'm disagreeing with him. All of their mobile games are testing the waters to see what can work. SMR is testing the reception of a quality game with a price tag. 

I know, that was the purpose of the partnership. They're exploring that market and seeing how it reacts in conjunction with how it affects their current market.

And I know very much how Pokemon Go has effected the brand (which of course doesn't really have much to do with Nintendo's efforts). If Nintendo just wanted all of their games to only point to their handheld/console options, they would have made the game differently. I don't see how people can look at its design decisions and claim that it wasn't a for profit venture.

Investors, they thought that Mario will perform same like Pokemon GO.

I think nintendo thought that too!

The problem is once its released on Android most the hype will be gone.  Collectively the hype of ios and Android users both talking about the game would have had a bigger impact.  Now once it launches on Android all the ios users would have moved on to something else meaning less people talking about it and less hype surrounding it. 

its probably because of the ludicrous 'analyst' predictions of it doing like as well as Pokemon GO> which was pretty silly. Also a massive amount of devices at this point are on ANDROID, probably overall worldwide way more than IOS, so some of the predictions seemed a bit far off considering essentially half of the market can't access the game right now

regardless the stocks always seem to be super sensitive with Nintendo. too many businessmen who don't pay attention to games and are trying to make a quick buck. Nintendo releases a mobile game that does fairly well upon release, when they've never had any mobile game profit coming in before, which should be looked at as a positive but instead people freak out because they expected Pokemon GO success over and over (which is silly).

Mario Run is doing fairly well for what it is, the NES Classic is doing well (despite the major undershipments). the stocks are just bizarre sometimes

the problem is, who's expectations? the reality is some of the expectations are made off of whims and nothing concrete. You have random analysts writing articles claiming for no clear reasons that something Super Mario Run (which isn't free) should magically get downloaded as much as Pokemon GO

the reality is things like stocks are effected by the media and what they read and hear constantly. a number of economic journalists hyped up expected numbers on a whim to get clicks and then got investors over excited. Its that simple

Nintendo's stock has been extremely volatile lately, I think the jumps say less about Nintendo and more about the type of people currently investing in the company (i.e. people hoping to make a quick buck and looking for a Pokemon GO situation to occur again, where overnight the stock doubles or something)