{"id":70504,"date":"2019-01-31T21:51:22","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T13:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/?p=234025"},"modified":"2019-01-31T21:51:22","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T13:51:22","slug":"wheels-come-off-mario-kart-tour-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/01\/31\/wheels-come-off-mario-kart-tour-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Wheels come off Mario Kart Tour launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        \tNintendo delayed the launch of its next mobile game, Mario Kart Tour [1], by several months to ensure it meets the company&#8217;s quality standards.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the company said the game&#8217;s debut would take place sometime around the middle of the year, with the additional time being used to &#8220;improve quality of the application and expand the content offerings&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As we endeavour to develop\u00a0future planned applications, we will also focus on continued service operations for applications that have already been released so that\u00a0consumers can enjoy playing them for a long time,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg quoted research company Newzoo analyst Jelle Kooistra as saying the Mario Kart franchise \u201chas more mainstream appeal than any other Nintendo title, and its fast-paced gameplay is a great fit for mobile,\u201d with the potential to generate annual revenue of $1 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo detailed the postponement as it revealed financials for Q4 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Mobile revenue for the quarter was JPY14.6 billion ($134.2 million), up 31 per cent. This was driven by its latest game Dragalia Lost, which debuted at the end of Q3 2018. Sensor Tower estimated [2] it pulled in JPY6 billion in Q4.<\/p>\n<p>Overall operating profit of JPY158.6 billion was up 36 per cent year-on year, with Reuters noting it was the highest in nine years.<\/p>\n[1] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/apps-home-banner\/nintendo-steps-up-smartphone-play\/<br \/>\n[2] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/apps\/news-apps\/nintendo-mobile-revenue-on-the-up\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo delayed the launch of its next mobile game, Mario Kart Tour, by several months &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/apps\/news-apps\/wheels-come-off-mario-kart-tour-launch\/\">Wheels come off Mario Kart Tour launch<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/\">Mobile World Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/01\/31\/wheels-come-off-mario-kart-tour-launch\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2,2047,2205,2157,453,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,409,407,408,11,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,403,412,411,395,405,404],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-ila","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70504"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70505,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70504\/revisions\/70505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}