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...“It’s not the console but rather a fundamental re-rating of the potential for smartphone games from Nintendo/DeNA.”...
...Launched domestically on March 17, the app is scheduled for release in 16 other markets by the end of the month, and analysts expect it to attract 50m worldwide downloads by the time its popularity peaks...
...Even harder hit were shares in DeNA — the Japanese mobile gaming company chosen to partner Nintendo as it ventures into the fastest-growing segment — which closed down 14.9 per cent....
...But since that peak, revenue has more than halved, eroded by the rise of cheaper games played on mobile devices....
...The games industry is haunted by the memory of what happened to Zynga, whose market capitalisation has fallen by almost three-quarters from a peak of more than $10bn after it floated in 2012 to a valuation...
...Social network site operator DeNa advanced 13.7 per cent to Y2,519 after an upgrade from JPMorgan and gaining approval to buy a professional basketball team....
...In the spring of 2009, Dena Cooper received what she thought was a lifeline from the US government....
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