Nintendo's Gold Mine

Craig Pedder
Jul 11, 2016
1 min read

Nintendo announced today that PokemonGO has given the company a whopping $7.5 billion boost in market value meaning 2016 is already the Japanese companies biggest year since 1983 thanks to its augmented reality hit.

What happened in 1983? This was the year that Nintendo's most infamous console, Nintendo Entertainment System (more commonly known as NES) was released and subsequently shaped the future of gaming world wide.

Big hitters such as Mario Bros and Bomber Man where also released this year and later became house hold names.

This is huge for Nintendo given that PokemonGO has only been released in a handful of countries so far, with Europe, Asia and others yet to see the official release. Many Android fans are already on board, but the entire iPhone market is waiting not so patiently to get out there and catch 'em all.

If you are on Android and are tired of waiting for the game to hit Google Play store you can always download it here and join the fun.