Nintendo marked the date on the calendar and from that day on you will no longer be able to play Dr. Mario World on either iOS or Android devices. The reason for this decision? Well, it has not turned out to be as profitable as they thought, although it could be interpreted differently.
Goodbye to Dr. Mario World
On October 31, 2021 Dr. Mario World will say goodbye definitively both in its version for iOS and Android terminals. Which means that on November 1 it will no longer be playable and will become the first Nintendo mobile title that the company closes.
Why? Well, because it is not profitable, although they should still learn some extra lessons from this decision and buy it with other titles that have been launched that have proven to be very attractive for the interests of the company, although they are the least.
Of course, before talking about that, if for some reason you did not know Dr. Mario World yet, we will quickly tell you what it was about or about, because until November you can still play if you are curious. But we warn you since you don’t miss much either.
The base of Dr. Mario World is the same as that of the NES classic. That is, it offers puzzle-type mechanics where the objective is to kill all the viruses that appear on the screen using pills that you throw at them. That is, something similar to the popular Candy Crush saving the distances.
However, the game did not quite work due to problems with the progression of the games, the challenges and the incentives for being a title that you wanted to play over and over again. That was the failure along with abusing the integrated purchases of different elements if you wanted to advance or maintain some interest.
Therefore, this bad approach is the one that has led to trigger the decision to close the service and with it the possibility of playing it until November 1 of this year 2021. But don’t worry, because you really don’t miss a lot either and what’s interesting it would be for Nintendo to draw correct conclusions from what happened.
Nintendo and missed opportunities
We all know that if Nintendo really got on with it, their mobile games would be a hit. In the first place, because users would be willing to pay as they do for the versions of their consoles if they had the same quality and depth. And secondly, because current mobiles offer plenty of power so you don’t have to limit yourself to very simple things.
However, this is not what Nintendo seems to want to do. Dr. Mario World is the first to fall, but they could join more if they wanted because not even titles like Super Mario Run have managed to hook as is assumed to any title of the character.
The only Nintendo hit on mobile devices that can’t be denied is Fire Emblem Heroes. According to SensorTower the results at the income level are incredible and show that when you don’t skimp you can achieve incredible things. And no, these types of games do not harm those of consoles but quite the opposite. For much they are discoveries that later lead them to get hooked on the rest of the saga or existing proposals on other platforms if that is the case. Or buying a Nintendo to continue enjoying Super Mario.