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.
Hopefully it bodes well to going back to these mechanics for future rpgs (essentially not like origami king)
Luigi’s Mansion? Huh?
TTYD has been begged for years to get remastered/remade. Nobody was asking for Luigi’s Mansion lol
This means absolutely nothing. Literally no other game released last week. It had no competition.
What has this to do with Luigi’s Mansion? 2 completely different genres and kind of remakes/ports.
I hope LM2 fails because it’s an low effort easy money grab and still looks and plays like a 3DS game. I love what they did with Paper Mario TTYD though
Paper Mario is back on the menu boys!
I’d say it bodes well for Mario RPGs. Alphadream, the company that made the Mario & Luigi series, went under in 2020 while having not made a new game in the series since 2015, and the Paper Mario games stopped being RPGs after TTYD, which originally released in *2004*. For the past 9 years, we’ve been in a Mario RPG drought.
Compare that to the release of SMRPG remake last year and TTYD remake this year, both of which sold well, and it’s clear that Nintendo is trying to guage interest for a renewed Mario RPG venture. I’d go so far as to say one may already be in development (or at least being planned) considering how wild it is to release two Mario RPG remakes from one year to the next. *Someone* at Nintendo thinks it’s worth pursuing, and that guy deserves a medal IMO.
I promise, Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD won’t do nearly as well. I mean I’m cheering it on, but it will probably do about as well as the Mario RPG remake.
I wonder how many are like me – the original paper Mario was and is one of my all time favorites. I played it when it was originally released.
But I never got to play TTYD (I was a kid and my parents couldn’t afford it).
Since becoming an adult – maybe around Wii U time – I’ve been fortunate to be able to afford and buy a ton of my childhood games. I’m sure a lot on here are in this similar position
However correct me if I’m wrong but **ttyd has never been made available until now, right?**
I think that may be a big reason why sales are so good: it’s the first rerelease of the game, and it’s a game that’s hyped up (rightfully so. I’m loving it).
Short of buying a GameCube and the game (I’m not a fan of emulating) I never had the choice of playing this game. Where as other childhood games like OOT I have like 10 options to play it legitimately.
Crazy to me that my 10 year old self loved Sticker Star which is the reason I’m still buying Paper a Mario games today. Loving TTYD so far and I’m horrified at myself for liking Sticker Star now
Doubt it. Paper Mario has a cult following and the original version is super expensive at this point. Luigi’s mansion has neither. The original was pretty meh and physical copies are easy to come by.
All Nintendo really needed to do to make Luigi’s Mansion Rebake sell well was do Luigi’s Manion 1 & 2. While many can debate the quality of LM2, there’s very few who would argue both for $50 wouldn’t be a tempting package. And it’s not like Nintendo has other competing games from their development houses relasing this summer. It’s all old Gamecube remakes.
I don’t think this sub is prepared for the reality that LM 2 might outsell TTYD.