Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door is No.1 in the UK boxed charts. It had a bigger launch than the Super Mario RPG remaster, with opening week sales basically identical to Paper Mario: The Origami King. That’s a great result. Bodes well for Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD
Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door is No.1 in the UK boxed charts. It had a bigger launch than the Super Mario RPG remaster, with opening week sales basically identical to Paper Mario: The Origami King. That’s a great result. Bodes well for Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD
— Christopher Dring (@Chris_Dring) May 27, 2024
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That’s because while Mario RPG is a nice little trip of nostalgia with charm, The Thousand Year Door is the GOAT.
That’s great news, a Remake managing to sell equally to the first original entry on the same console is very rare to see.
By the way, Super Mario RPG’s Remake didn’t sell that well in the UK (Probably due to the lack of nostalgia because the original was never released in Europe). But its sales worldwide have been the fastest selling Mario RPG [(3.31 million copies in a few months)](https://www.rpgsite.net/news/15803-nintendo-q4fy2024-results-super-mario-rpg-remake-sells-31-million-units#:~:text=Nintendo%20has%20released%20its%20quarterly,from%203.14%20million%20last%20quarter).
I hope both SMRPG and PM:TTYD manage to outsell Paper Mario: The Origami King (3.47 million), so Nintendo gets the message of what we want for the future of the Mario RPG games.
Question – if I didn’t really like origami king but love Odyssey and Wonder, is there any point to trying out TTYD?
Ngl, i kinda gave up on rpg. I got to the place with the stars and just stopped. I think it was way overhyped
Nintendo, why are you like this? Make new Paper Mario games like the first two, hell, make a new Super Paper Mario. Stop using gimmicks with the battle system and give us exp. I mean, TTYD was the last Paper Mario that everyone loved, and it was on GC. Look, I liked Origami King; it’s a step in the right direction, but it breaks my heart not having a classic Paper Mario for so long. I remember being a kid, and my father and I would go to rent Paper Mario 64. I rented that game like once every month and knew every little secret and area. It was such a priceless game for me, so again: WHY, NINTENDO, WHY?
I really don’t see how you can assume Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD will sell well based on this.
Different games, different genre, different product type (HD upscale Vs remake)
Oh no, I would have expected it to far surpass origami king
So it’s looking likely that two 20+ year old Mario RPG remakes outsold FFXVI and FFVII Rebirth. Impressive.
Luigi’s Mansion 2 does not compare to TTYD.
Two completely different games.
Granted, Luigi’s Mansion 2 was my first in that series but I thought it was always just ‘okay’.
Multiplayer was fun tho.
I did not like Sticker Star but really enjoyed Origami King. Had never played the original TTYD, but I’m on to the third crystal and I get why the game gets the attention it does. It really feels like there’s more packed into this world than OK, and I can only imagine when it originally launched it must have been incredible. All that being said, I’m one of the weirdos that didn’t hate the OK battle system. In any case, I’m enjoying TTYD much more than SM RPG, but that was fun too.