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A woman using a smartphone walks past Nintendo's “Super Mario Run” game advertisement board at a subway station in Tokyo, Japan, December 21, 2016. Mario ran right to the top of the download charts this week, with Nintendo's first-ever smartphone game, Super Mario Run, hitting 40 million downloads in its first four days. That makes it the fastest-selling iOS game in the history of the App Store. Still, things aren't completely peachy in the Mushroom Kingdom. App analyst Sensor Tower says that the game netted as much as $21 million in its first four days, but pointed out that Nintendo's stock simultaneously hit a one-month low. Sensor Tower analyst Spencer Gabriel points out that only about eight percent of users who download Super Mario Run and play its first three levels go on to spend the requisite $10 to unlock the rest of the game. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)
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