has officially launched its edition, and Nintendo should follow suit with one of its other big mobile games. After seven years of continuous support, reached its end of service on November 28, 2024. Shortly after, Nintendo launched, an offline version of the game with no microtransactions.
is far from Nintendo’s only foray into mobile gaming, however. has been running for several years now, and as it approaches the end of its lifespan, it should take a page from ’s playbook.
Both and have been available for several years, with being released in 2017 and Tour in 2019. In that span of time, both have raked in quite a bit of money for Nintendo. According to , and stack up about the same in terms of revenue, while the profits of Nintendo's other mobile offerings vary significantly.
Mobile Game
Total Profits as of November 2024 (USD)
$879.34 million
$267.33 million
$264.71 million
$122.2 million
$69.97 million
$11.19 million
$3.61 million
Out of all Nintendo’s mobile games, is the best fit to follow in offering a edition. far outpaces them both in terms of profit and is likely to enjoy a long life before its end of service even comes into consideration. On the other end, games like and simply didn't draw enough money to warrant the same kind of treatment.
While Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp is closing its servers, the game itself isn't going anywhere, with an exciting new future ahead for fans.
As demonstrated by the strong sales of , the franchise is as popular as ever. The game is in a sweet spot between, which shows no signs of slowing down, and less successful properties that Nintendo might not invest in transitioning to a Complete version. As of October 2023, Nintendo ceased adding new content to, so its sunsetting is inevitable at this point. Many players would surely leap at the opportunity to play a Completeedition of, one that didn’t require endless grinding to unlock all its content.
provides players with thefull game experience offline, including all content
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