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2020/01

Nintendo Mobile Games Lifetime Revenue Passes $1 Billion, According To Report

Nintendo has six mobile games, but those games have generated over $1 billion in lifetime revenue through player spending, according to Sensor Tower. The biggest contributor to this new Nintendo milestone can be attributed to Fire Emblem Heroes.

Website gamesindustry.biz has covered Sensor Tower’s report on the Big ‘N’ and its new mobile milestone. However, out of the $1 billion earned, $656 million of it comes from Fire Emblem Heroes.

Although Fire Emblem Heroes is in a league of its own, in second-place comes Animal Crossing Pocket Camp, which is responsible for pulling in a total of $131 million.

Dragalia contributed to the milestone with $123 million earned, while Mario Kart Tour has $86 million in lifetime revenue under its belt with Super Mario Run trailing behind with $76 million.

Dr. Mario World accounts for $4.8 million, but the fledgling game, out of its mobile siblings, still helped the Big ‘N’ reach the $1 billion mark — despite being the red brand’s lowest-grossing mobile title.

If you want a visual on the aforesaid, you can look over the following image that lists Nintendo’s biggest mobile games:

 

Now that we know what games contributed to the Big ‘N’ reaching the milestone of $1 billion in lifetime mobile game revenue, what are the download numbers behind these handset games? No worries, the publication site also covers Sensor Tower’s calculations.

As for downloads, it is said that all six games collectively account for 452 million downloads.

The leader of the bunch is Super Mario Run, holding 244 million downloads. Mario Kart Tour has 147 million installs, but Fire Emblem Heroes only has 4% of the grand total of mobile game downloads.

A summary of the above is that Fire Emblem Heroes has brought in more revenue (through microtransactions), but Super Mario Run has been downloaded way more than the former title.

If you want, you can read the full report by heading on over to sensortower.com.

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