Super Mario Run was downloaded a record 40 million times in its first four days

Nintendo’s first proper smartphone game has proved to be a huge hit. According to the company, Super Mario Run was downloaded more than 40 million times in its first four days of availability on iOS, breaking the App Store record for number of downloads during that span. Previous reports pegged the game’s debut at around 2.85 million downloads in its first day, though these are the first official numbers to come from Nintendo.
That success was aided in part by a global launch, that s