Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp is effectively being closed at the end of November, Nintendo has confirmed.
As spotted by VGC, Nintendo is to stop providing content updates and will remove all IAPs by November 29. A new paid version of Pocket Camp will launch at the same time, allowing players to carry over their save data.
A quick look at Appmagic tells us the game has earned Nintendo over $260m to date, from around 64m downloads. It has been consistently generating $1.4-1.7m a month since April 2023.
Overall, Appmagic suggests Nintendo now earns around $7m a month from its mobile games, with around $4m of that from Fire Emblem Heroes, by far its most successful title.
As we’ve reported before, it’s the latest move in what appears to be Nintendo’s slow retreat from mobile, which entered the market in 2016 with the launch of Super Mario Run.
That game continues to receive content updates, as does Fire Emblem: Heroes, its biggest earner to date. Its collaboration with Niantic, Pikmin Bloom, is still live too.
But Nintendo ended live support for big brand racer Mario Kart Tour around a year ago, and has also closed down puzzler Dr. Mario World and Dragalia Lost, an RPG codeveloped by Cygames and Nintendo, in recent years.
