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DaAndy on 13 June 2020

Didnt expected Paper Mario: The Origami King to do that bad. Hope things will change soon.

For comparison:

Paper Mario: Colour Splash (WiiU) Paper Mario: Sticker Star (3DS)
COMG Last Day 0* 112
Release Date: October 13th, 2016 December 6th, 2012
Sales Week 1 20.894 129.054
Sales Week 2 7.784 / 28.678 92.363 / 221.416
Sales Week 3 4.490 / 33.167 122.118 / 343.535
Sales Week 4 3.926 / 37.093 58.597 / 402.132

* hadnt charted at all, low end at these times were in the low-mid 20ish points!

Dont know about lifetime sales.

Guess when Paper Mario: The Origami King gets closer to the 3DS game than to the WiiU game, it can be considered a sucess.

Hope for at leats 250k lifetime. But at the moment I am not even convinced it can do that even though it is the Switch and a lot of Switch games sell quite good.



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RingoGaSuki on 13 June 2020
DaAndy said:

Didnt expected Paper Mario: The Origami King to do that bad. Hope things will change soon.

For comparison:

Paper Mario: Colour Splash (WiiU) Paper Mario: Sticker Star (3DS)
COMG Last Day 0* 112
Release Date: October 13th, 2016 December 6th, 2012
Sales Week 1 20.894 129.054
Sales Week 2 7.784 / 28.678 92.363 / 221.416
Sales Week 3 4.490 / 33.167 122.118 / 343.535
Sales Week 4 3.926 / 37.093 58.597 / 402.132

* hadnt charted at all, low end at these times were in the low-mid 20ish points!

Dont know about lifetime sales.

Guess when Paper Mario: The Origami King gets closer to the 3DS game than to the WiiU game, it can be considered a sucess.

Hope for at leats 250k lifetime. But at the moment I am not even convinced it can do that even though it is the Switch and a lot of Switch games sell quite good.

Paper Mario's issue is that it isn't what people want. People enjoyed the first two (three actually SPM was a great game and it did retain elements) because of their RPG gameplay. Whilst The Origami King looks closer to the first three than Sticker Star or Colour Splash, it's still not good enough. Nothing shown in the trailer will grab people who aren't already interested. If the game had been a proper RPG, it would be doing much better than it is. The fact that it isn't more of an RPG leads me to believe we're going to get a Mario and Luigi RPG next year to fill that niche.



Maluigi on 13 June 2020

Sticker Star is the most-sold Paper Mario in Japan (about 564.000 lifetime) while Color Splash is at the last place (63.000).

So, we can‘t predict how this game will end.



Shaunodon on 13 June 2020
RingoGaSuki said:
DaAndy said:

Didnt expected Paper Mario: The Origami King to do that bad. Hope things will change soon.

For comparison:

Paper Mario: Colour Splash (WiiU) Paper Mario: Sticker Star (3DS)
COMG Last Day 0* 112
Release Date: October 13th, 2016 December 6th, 2012
Sales Week 1 20.894 129.054
Sales Week 2 7.784 / 28.678 92.363 / 221.416
Sales Week 3 4.490 / 33.167 122.118 / 343.535
Sales Week 4 3.926 / 37.093 58.597 / 402.132

* hadnt charted at all, low end at these times were in the low-mid 20ish points!

Dont know about lifetime sales.

Guess when Paper Mario: The Origami King gets closer to the 3DS game than to the WiiU game, it can be considered a sucess.

Hope for at leats 250k lifetime. But at the moment I am not even convinced it can do that even though it is the Switch and a lot of Switch games sell quite good.

Paper Mario's issue is that it isn't what people want. People enjoyed the first two (three actually SPM was a great game and it did retain elements) because of their RPG gameplay. Whilst The Origami King looks closer to the first three than Sticker Star or Colour Splash, it's still not good enough. Nothing shown in the trailer will grab people who aren't already interested. If the game had been a proper RPG, it would be doing much better than it is. The fact that it isn't more of an RPG leads me to believe we're going to get a Mario and Luigi RPG next year to fill that niche.

That'd be a nice tradeoff, depending on the quality of both titles. Even though it's not the Paper Mario many were hoping for, being less RPG helps for the variety of Switch titles this year. We already have a TMS♯FE port, Xenoblade, Bravely Default II, a longshot possibility for SMTV, plus several third party offerings. Having something more RPG-lite isn't the worst.



Bofferbrauer2 on 13 June 2020
DaAndy said:

Didnt expected Paper Mario: The Origami King to do that bad. Hope things will change soon.

For comparison:

Paper Mario: Colour Splash (WiiU) Paper Mario: Sticker Star (3DS)
COMG Last Day 0* 112
Release Date: October 13th, 2016 December 6th, 2012
Sales Week 1 20.894 129.054
Sales Week 2 7.784 / 28.678 92.363 / 221.416
Sales Week 3 4.490 / 33.167 122.118 / 343.535
Sales Week 4 3.926 / 37.093 58.597 / 402.132

* hadnt charted at all, low end at these times were in the low-mid 20ish points!

Dont know about lifetime sales.

Guess when Paper Mario: The Origami King gets closer to the 3DS game than to the WiiU game, it can be considered a sucess.

Hope for at leats 250k lifetime. But at the moment I am not even convinced it can do that even though it is the Switch and a lot of Switch games sell quite good.

Give it time, most Nintendo titles, especially Mario titles, only rush at the end. It's still too far from launch to start gaining points regularly.



The Nintendo eShop rating Thread: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=237454 List as Google Doc:  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aW2hXQT1TheElVS7z-F3pP-7nbqdrDqWNTxl6JoJWBY/edit?usp=sharing

The Steam/GOG key gifting thread: https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/242024/the-steamgog-key-gifting-thread/1/ 

Free Pc Games thread: https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/248138/free-pc-games/1/

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Sam1994 on 13 June 2020

great day for tlou2!



Bofferbrauer2 on 16 June 2020
theDX said:

COMG! Japan Sales Chart June 15, 2020

Rank Prev Console Game Total Change Price Publisher
1 – NSW Animal Crossing: New Horizons 74 -2 ¥5,980 Nintendo
2 – NSW Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics 45 +7 ¥3,980 Nintendo
3 ⬆︎1 NSW Ring Fit Adventure 26 +1 ¥7,980 Nintendo
4 ⬆︎1 NSW Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition 13 -2 ¥5,980 Nintendo
5 ⬆︎3 NSW Minecraft 12 +1 ¥3,600 Microsoft
6 ⬇︎3 PS4 The Last of Us Remastered [PlayStation Hits] 11 -14 ¥1,990 SIE
7 ⬆︎12 PS4 Resident Evil 3 Z Version 10 +6 ¥7,800 Capcom
8 ⬆︎5 NSW Mario Kart 8 Deluxe 9 +2 ¥5,980 Nintendo
9 ⬇︎2 NSW Splatoon 2 8 -3 ¥5,980 Nintendo
10 ⬇︎4 PS4 Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition [PlayStation Hits] 7 -7 ¥1,990 SIE
11 NEW NSW Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training for Nintendo Switch 7 0 ¥3,480 Nintendo
12 NEW NSW The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 7 0 ¥6,980 Nintendo
13 ⬇︎4 PS4 Gran Turismo Sport [PlayStation Hits] 6 -2 ¥1,990 SIE
14 ⬇︎2 NSW Super Smash Bros. Ultimate 6 -1 ¥7,200 Nintendo
15 NEW PS4 Persona 3: Dancing Moon Night 5 0 ¥7,480 Atlus
16 NEW NSW Luigi's Mansion 3 5 0 ¥5,980 Nintendo
17 NEW PS4 Bloodborne [PlayStation Hits] 4 0 ¥1,990 SIE
18 NEW NSW Super Mario Party 4 0 ¥5,980 Nintendo
19 ⬇︎1 PS4 Trials of Mana 3 -1 ¥5,980 Square Enix
20 ⬇︎9 PS4 Final Fantasy VII Remake 3 -4 ¥8,980 Square Enix

I think we got now 3 evergreens on the first positions of these charts that won't drop down until the Switch is dead.



The Nintendo eShop rating Thread: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=237454 List as Google Doc:  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aW2hXQT1TheElVS7z-F3pP-7nbqdrDqWNTxl6JoJWBY/edit?usp=sharing

The Steam/GOG key gifting thread: https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/242024/the-steamgog-key-gifting-thread/1/ 

Free Pc Games thread: https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/248138/free-pc-games/1/

Megiddo on 16 June 2020

If Last of Us II can keep getting 3 points it'll end up just barely breaking 100 points when the SKUs are combined.



Bofferbrauer2 on 17 June 2020

Paper Mario ain't doing half bad considering it's still a month away from launch.



The Nintendo eShop rating Thread: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=237454 List as Google Doc:  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aW2hXQT1TheElVS7z-F3pP-7nbqdrDqWNTxl6JoJWBY/edit?usp=sharing

The Steam/GOG key gifting thread: https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/242024/the-steamgog-key-gifting-thread/1/ 

Free Pc Games thread: https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/248138/free-pc-games/1/

Rob5VGC on 19 June 2020

Damn. 3 people went digital on the last day.