Dragalia Misplaced, considered one of Nintendo’s more and more dwindling steady of cell video games for iOS and Android, is shutting down. The corporate introduced in the present day that the sport’s major marketing campaign might be ending in July and that it’ll stop including new characters or content material updates (outdoors of the principle marketing campaign) on the finish of March when its closing set of characters is launched.
Nintendo hasn’t mentioned when precisely Dragalia Misplaced might be totally shutting down. The corporate solely says that “after the principle marketing campaign has concluded, service for the sport itself will come to an in depth at a later date. Additional particulars on the end-of-service schedule might be supplied in a future notification.” The announcement does notice that gamers will nonetheless be capable of summon new characters and luxuriate in occasion revivals up till the sport totally shuts down, nonetheless.
Dragalia Misplaced debuted again in 2018, on the heels of Hearth Emblem Heroes and Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp (each of which had debuted the 12 months beforehand.) In contrast to Tremendous Mario Run — Nintendo’s first foray into cell gaming, which launched with a $9.99 one-time price ticket in 2016 — Dragalia Misplaced was a free-to-play “gacha” type recreation developed in partnership with Cygames (finest identified for creating Granblue Fantasy) that depends on gamers summoning random characters to make use of within the recreation.
It’s an concept that is sensible on paper. Gacha video games might be large moneymakers. Take Hearth Emblem Heroes, for instance, which dominates as Nintendo’s most profitable cell title — as of 2020, a Sensor Tower report tallied it as producing over $650 million in income, greater than all of Nintendo’s different cell video games mixed.
However Dragalia Misplaced by no means fairly reached that stage of success. Because the uncommon trendy Nintendo title that was a totally unique IP, it didn’t have many years of beloved characters for followers to gather (one thing that Hearth Emblem Heroes has been capable of capitalize on extensively).
Dragalia Misplaced will be part of Dr. Mario World — arguably the least profitable of any of Nintendo’s cell titles — on the checklist of fizzled out cell titles at any time when Nintendo does shut service down for good within the coming months.
