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I think the $10 price point is really aggressive on this. I was expecting higher from Nintendo honestly. They're going to sell a bajillion copies at that price.
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I think the $10 price point is really aggressive on this. I was expecting higher from Nintendo honestly. They're going to sell a bajillion copies at that price.
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Seems high, but only because if it fits the Nintendo MO for pricing, you can forget seeing much of any discounts on it, and if there are, don't expect probably more than 20-30% off at most rarely here and there much like their own eshop offerings. I thought the usual happy point for many was in the $5-7 range for dedicated no IAP programs that don't have a historical (ie a port) basis in physical media (like the expensive square releases or the $16 Soul Caliber from Namco.) I had to admit it but I'd probably buy it, holding my nose, just because I'm curious. I just wish Apple wasn't getting such nice treatment, rather do this on my shield tablet than the dopey little iphone5s screen.
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Just wait a month or two then.
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How are they going to manage to under supply a digital game though?
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They will have Apple take down the connection to the server where the game lies 23 hours a day, and only have it active around midnight PST.
Find the cheapest source of a used iDevice or Android(when there) and just sell the devices hacked with a straight vanilla boot to the game and nothing else.
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Played the game a few times, and its ok.
IDK if it's worth the $10
I have an android phone, so it really doesn't matter, since I can't buy.
IDK if it's worth the $10
I have an android phone, so it really doesn't matter, since I can't buy.
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I didn't get through the trailer. I can't believe they want $10 for a ticket. If this movie was [sic] exactly the same except without Star Wars, it would have gone straight to DVD.
That's why companies spend years and lots of money developing IPs. I'm not completely sold on the game either, but the price isn't the issue. I've been disappointed by the race to the bottom in mobile gaming, as I greatly prefer the premium model to the F2P one.
That's why companies spend years and lots of money developing IPs. I'm not completely sold on the game either, but the price isn't the issue. I've been disappointed by the race to the bottom in mobile gaming, as I greatly prefer the premium model to the F2P one.
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Clearly the bear to entry at $10 seems a bit steep to me, but I don't play mobile games as much as the next person. If the price point was $5 or $6 then I most likely would have tossed in the cash, played the game for a couple weeks then never played it again. Seems like either way nintendo made their money, maybe not from me but 40 million downloads so far. I just want to know how many out of the 40 million are actually paid downloads or just the free trial.
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Well they hit 40 million downloads in the first 4 days of the release only on iPhone, it was reported at 14 million in revenue... they hit like 50 million just a couple days after that. I don't know the estimated DL count now but they made bank, and they will continue too for awhile now that droid is opening up to it. Game is enjoyable, my daughter wanted it so I got it for her, then looked up online a way to get it on my iTunes account too without having to pay twice (took some work). I like it, and the challenge is going against the other players and friends, lots of replay trying to obtain all the secret coins etc. I despise most phone games but I have played this one quite a bit and I'm glad they got 10 bucks out of me. I have tried playing MARIO before on an iPhone with the on screen Dpad and honestly this is probably the only way MARIO games can be played without a controller on a phone.
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Yeah I can see how it would work alot better than a d-pad situation. Clearly they are going to make bank off of it. I don't know maybe I'll stop being a grump and just shell out the cash.
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^I did and westcb is right. It takes a little getting used to it being always running, and the fact anything 'mini mario' height he will automatically vault over (blocks, ledges, even enemies) but once you do it is smooth. Even if you don't care about the colored coins, just beating on the enemies to level them up can be fun and it rewards more coins in that toad rally. All that plays back into being able to rebuild your own custom mushroom kingdom as a reward too. It's good if you just SMB classic it, or you want to make more of it too.
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I played through the main game and collected all red and all purple coins. Played Toad Rally for a while until I got enough to unlock the cake in Kingdom Builder. Seeing a ton of people maxing out at 9999 Toads collected and I almost always have 99 Toad Rally Tickets at my disposal. Kinda fell out of playing it after that.
What's the cake do?
