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Nintendo President spells out how Pokémon generated big financial results

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 1, 2017
4 min

Nintendo reported better-than-expected growth in its third fiscal quarter ended December 31 yesterday, and today, Nintendo President Tatsumi Kimishima credited the growth of the...

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The rise and fall of Nintendo’s Miitomo: Massive downloads don’t mean success

Posted byby Jason Wilson
May 28, 2016
3 min

As we outlined in our previous post in April, Nintendo’s first mobile app, Miitomo, debuted and quickly shot to the No. 1 rank on...

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Nintendo’s Miitomo is beating Facebook at gathering personal data

Posted byby Jason Wilson
April 19, 2016
3 min

The release of Nintendo’s first mobile game, Miitomo, largely caught the world off guard. Not merely because it’s so unique, but also because people...

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Why Nintendo’s Miitomo should frighten every other mobile game publisher

Posted byby Jason Wilson
April 18, 2016
2 min

Late last month, Nintendo released its first mobile game in the United States: Miitomo, launching a ton of hype. This app is based on Nintendo’s...

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Nintendo’s Miitomo racks up 1.6M downloads in its first 4 days in the U.S.

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
April 8, 2016
2 min

1.6 million people downloaded the publisher’s Miitomo social platform in the U.S. alone from March 31 through April 3, according to industry-tracking firm Sensor Tower. That number includes both iOS and Android, and it doesn’t include the days Miitomo spent at the top of the download chart on both platforms through the bulk of this week.

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Miitomo is already a hotbed of nasty jokes, sexual innuendo, and Donald Trump

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
March 31, 2016
2 min

Nintendo just released the social-networking Miitomo app, and gamers have already flooded it with crap. Earlier this morning, Miitomo hit the iOS App Store...

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Miitomo hits No. 1 on U.S. iOS App Store in less than 24 hours

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
March 31, 2016
1 min

Nintendo has stormed onto mobile, and gamers are eating it up. Miitomo, the publisher’s first smartphone app, is the No. 1 most downloaded game...

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Miitomo is a clever, Nintendo-like take on Facebook and Line

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
March 31, 2016
5 min

Nintendo has finally entered the age of smartphones and tablets, and its first app has a lot of interesting features and quirks. Miitomo is...

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Nintendo’s Miitomo is now live on iOS and Android

Posted byby Mike Minotti
March 31, 2016
1 min

The company’s first mobile game, Miitomo, is available now on the iOS and Android app stores. It represents Nintendo’s first attempt to become part of the $34.8 billion mobile industry (worth that much in 2015 according to market research firm Newzoo).

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Nintendo’s first mobile game Miitomo launches in the U.S. on March 31

Posted byby Mike Minotti
March 29, 2016
1 min

The U.S. will soon get to experience Nintendo’s first mobile effort. The Japanese game company announced today that Miitomo will launch in the U.S....

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