Another day, another beloved video game gets cloned by an iOS developer out to make a quick buck. The current victim is Nintendo, a company that is seeing their lovely 3DS game Super Mario 3D Land pilfered by the creators of 3D Cartoon Land Safari.
Most of Koichi Hayashida’s talk at the Game Developers Conference today about making the most recent Super Mario game for Nintendo was silly. Some of it was even a joke. Until he got to the earthquake.
During the Nintendo 3DS’s launch week, the portable sold 371,326 units in Japan. When Nintendo slashed the priced, the portable sold 214,821 units in Japan. What about when Monster Hunter 3G was released?