Sensor Tower: Super Mario Run will have 56% more first-month downloads than Pokémon Go

Nintendo is getting ready to unleash its first Mario game on mobile, and it could end up as one of the biggest apps ever to hit iPhone.

Super Mario Run will have more than 50 million downloads in its first month, according to industry intelligence firm Sensor Tower. That is 56 percent more downloads than Pokémon Go’s 32 million through its first month. Super Mario Run debuts exclusively for iPhone on December 15 (it’ll hit Android at some point in 2017). It is Nintendo’s first time bringing one of its existing game franchises to mobile after experimenting with the release of the social app Miitomo in March. With Mario, however, the publisher is making its first major move toward taking a chunk of the $36.6 billion mobile gaming industry.