Super Mario Run Celebrates Princess Peach: Showtime! With New Crossover Event

first the wonder effects now this!
... i like it!

I love how Super Mario Run is like Nintendo's least profitable mobile game, yet they keep supporting this one and not the others with free updates for some reason.

Wait, actual new statues? This is the first time they’ve added new content in ages. The Wonder event just reused old statues for prizes as far as I could tell.

Wait, these missions are actually hard lol. Going to have to brush up on my Mario Run skills!

This is a cool update. Super Mario Run is underrated in my opinion. The fact that it's only a one-time purchase is very nice, as are the lack of ads. And I think the actual levels are well-designed and really fit the concept of Mario levels where you're always running. Doing all of the acrobatic maneuvers that you can't do in the mainline games makes me feel like a speedrunner.

@Not_Soos They are probably using it as a gateway drug, hoping mobile users will buy a Switch to discover real Mario games.

@Rhaoulos They couldn't have put Princess Peach Showtime content in the vastly more successful Mario Kart Tour instead of ending all support? I don't get it. If there's still casuals out there playing Super Mario Run in 2024, that's actually insane.

@Not_Soos I'm finding this also strange. Could it be the other way around, to bring PPS players to SMR..? Like you know, you've bought the meal, now won't you have a little ice cream with it.

The Super Mario Wonder event felt like a joke and a bad reskin of their golden goomba event. At least this looks like it took more work. I guess any reason to go back to Mario Run is a good one.

Edit: About an hour to take to beat. Tougher missions than I expected.

@Not_Soos Nintendo is so weird sometimes. At times I feel like they just roll a dice to decide what to do next.

@Yalloo Honestly, I think that might be the more likely scenario, but it's still really strange. I can't imagine that much R&D went into Super Mario Run considering most of the assets are taken directly from NSMBU. So like, just cut your losses and let it die. It's okay if that one mobile game from years ago didn't turn a profit.

@Not_Soos I don't think SMR cost them much, gameplay is the most basic it can get, and assets are pre-existing like you said. The only marketing for it was made by Apple when it launched.
I'm pretty sure it's still bringing money every month, maybe not much, but who knows.
I recently read that the mobile game in 2023 that had the highest revenue was a Monopoly game. Would you have ever imagined that? It could as well be that SMR is a silent success, who knows with the success of the film. You need a Nintendo account to play it, that's also something they wanted people to have. Who knows SMR isn't a gateway to people's first Nintendo account...

@Not_Soos My guess is Mario Kart Tour took too much effort and time to design new tracks, drivers, karts, etc. The Mario Run “event” is as simple as can be. Just some missions to do in levels that already exist and 3 new statues of Peach. That’s it. Can’t imagine it took much manpower to put together.

Dang, some of these missions are legit really hard to pull off.