Sensor Tower: Super Mario Run made $5 million in under 24 hours

While you collect coins as Mario on your iPhone, Nintendo is collecting fat stacks on cash.

Super Mario Run has generated approximately $5 million in in revenues after five million downloads in its first 24 hours, according to intelligence firm Sensor Tower. That’s a far bigger download number than competing data firm Apptopia reported earlier today, but it’s in line with data from app-market-tracking company App Annie, which estimates 4.7 million downloads in the United States in the first day. All of those numbers clearly indicate that Nintendo is riding a massive wave of excitement for its first Mario game in the $36.6 billion mobile gaming market. Super Mario Run is the most-downloaded game in 80 countries and the top-grossing app in 30 of those.