Nintendo is shutting down its Mario game

The video game and electronics company Nintendo is putting the Mario video game in history. The company that turned Mario Kart and Pokemon into successful mobile games apparently did not succeed in this game. Very similar to the original Dr. Mario World is a Tetris-style game in which pills are used to kill viruses of the same color. But unlike the original, everything is moving upwards. The mobile game also has a multiplayer mode.

Nintendo announces deadline for Mario
The company is extremely successful, Dr. The mobile version of the Mario NES game is Dr. Mario World has announced that it is ending its service on November 1. In addition, sales of the in-app “diamond” currency have also stopped today.

The game was developed in collaboration with Nintendo on the popular mobile messaging application Line in Japan. It was then released on July 10, 2019. The company is working with Dr. So that players can look at their history when the service ends. Mario created a web page called World Memories.

The game is one of Nintendo's first mobile games to be shut down, not counting the Mii-themed social network Miitomo two years ago. About six months after its release, according to data from SensorTower, Dr. Mario World was decisively the worst-performing Nintendo smartphone game in terms of revenue performance.

Fire Emblem Heroes, on the other hand, generated more revenue than the company's other games combined. Thus, it remains the company's biggest mobile hit by a large margin. The company also released the multi-player supported Mario Kart Tour in early 2020. This game has been downloaded over 200 million times and has generated relatively high earnings for the company.

In contrast, mobile games still make up a small part of Nintendo's total earnings. Last year, the company attributed just 3.24 percent of its revenue to “mobile and IP-related revenue,” which covers licensing deals. A very large part of the company's revenue comes from the Switch.