Super Mario Party Jamboree (Switch) News Articles
Wednesday18th Jun 2025
News Super Mario Party Jamboree Updated For Switch 2 And Switch (Version 2.0.0)
Here's what's included
Nintendo has been doing a lot behind the scenes over the past few weeks to update many of its major first-party Switch titles for the Switch 2. This includes both free and paid upgrades for select titles, and alongside the Mario Kart World update today, Nintendo has also released a patch for Super Mario Party Jamboree. This...
Friday18th Apr 2025
Japanese Charts Mario Party Jamboree Rolls Its Way To Another Victory
You got a star!
Sorry, everyone! We were a little distracted by yesterday's Mario Kart World Direct and had to push the latest numbers from Famitsu aside for a little while. But have no fear, we're back to provide the latest look at the Japanese charts. Much like last time, it has been a pretty quiet week in the wake of Nintendo opening the...
Thursday10th Apr 2025
Japanese Charts Not Even The Impending Switch 2 Can Stop This Mario Party
Party on!
Hello, yes, we're back with the boxed charts over in Japan. Apologies for missing last week, it was quite a busy one for Team NL, as I'm sure you can imagine. This week, Super Mario Party Jamboree is once again at the top, selling another 11,487 copies. It's not the biggest increase we've ever seen, but we suspect that sales in general...
Monday17th Mar 2025
UK Charts WWE And Monster Hunter Hold Strong In Quiet Week For Nintendo
EA Sports FC 25 is the only Switch game in the top 5
The onslaught of new releases on other platforms continues to dominate the UK physical game charts this week, as yet another PS5 and Xbox Series game clinches the top spot. WWE 2K25 slams into first place, knocking last week's number one Split Fiction comfortably down to fourth. We don't think...
Monday10th Mar 2025
UK Charts Split Fiction's Strong Start Has Us Praying For A Switch 2 Port
Leaving Suikoden in the dust
When a new Monster Hunter appears, you'd expect it to stick around in the top spot for a few weeks, right? Well, not if Hazelight has anything to say about it. The studio's latest co-op adventure, Split Fiction, has arrived with a bang in the UK charts this week, claiming pole position and pushing Monster Hunter Wilds...
Wednesday5th Mar 2025
News Nintendo Places Outside Top 20 In Metacritic's 15th Annual Game Publisher Rankings
The Big N's lowest ranking yet
Metacritic has today revealed its 15th annual game publisher rankings, giving us an updated look at how the biggest publishers of 2024 performed based on critic reviews. Nintendo wound up in 22nd place out of the 37 publishers in this year's list which, considering it landed in sixth place last time, is quite the...
Thursday20th Feb 2025
Japanese Charts Donkey Kong Swings Back To Claim Another Win
Though numbers are falling across the board
Over in Japan this week, after Super Mario Party Jamboree briefly managed to claim the top spot last week, Donkey Kong Country Returns HD has once again given its first-party brethren the ol' one-two to take gold once again. Selling a further 14,752 copies, Forever Entertainment's remaster of Retro...
Friday14th Feb 2025
News No Wins For Nintendo At DICE Awards, But Balatro Bags A Three Of A Kind
And Animal Well wins 'Best Direction'
The 28th annual DICE Awards ceremony has recently taken place in Las Vegas, and though Astro Bot robbed Nintendo of any potential wins (perhaps deservedly, to be honest – it's a bloomin' good game), there were a few notable nods toward a couple of outstanding indie titles available on Switch. Those games are...
Thursday13th Feb 2025
Japanese Charts Donkey Kong Starts To Slip As Mario Party Rolls Back Into Pole Position
Who left that banana peel there?
The latest Japanese charts are in courtesy of Famitsu, and you'll never guess who's snuck back into first after grabbing another star this week... We thought its reign was over, but Super Mario Party Jamboree has knocked DK off the top spot this week with an additional 17,355 sales to its name. Donkey Kong Country...
Tuesday4th Feb 2025
News Super Mario Party Jamboree Is The Fastest-Selling Entry In Franchise History
Worthy of a jamboree
Nintendo has revealed that Super Mario Party Jamboree has shipped a total of 6.17 million units since its launch on 17th October 2024. This not only makes it the best-selling game of the financial quarter for Nintendo, but it's also now the fastest-selling Mario Party entry in franchise history (thanks, Pierre485). Outpacing...
Thursday30th Jan 2025
Japanese Charts Donkey Kong Country Returns HD Continues Its Winning Streak
While Ender Magnolia gets off to a decent start
If the pre-release backlash regarding the price of Donkey Kong Country Returns HD was anything to go by, we might have expected the game to crash and burn mere days after it launched. Alas, the internet is and forever will be its own little bubble, and the game has topped the Japanese charts once again...
Monday27th Jan 2025
UK Charts Black Ops 6 Fends Off A Wave Of Nintendo Hits
Mario's on my six!
The UK presents a largely familiar picture in the physical charts this week, though there have been a couple of notable shake ups. Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 finds itself at the top of the pack, though a wave of Nintendo titles are snapping at its heels, including Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Donkey Kong Country Returns HD, Super Mario...
Friday17th Jan 2025
Japanese Charts Freedom Wars Remastered Makes Its Top Ten Debut
Though Mario Party Jamboree is still the king
Famitsu has posted the latest boxed sales charts for Japan, and this time, Freedom Wars Remastered makes its debut on the Switch and the PS5. Rather predictably, the Switch version sold more copies at 8,277 (4,829 on the PS5) but couldn't quite manage to climb the ranks and claim the top prize. It's the...
Monday13th Jan 2025
UK Charts Ys Memoire Narrowly Makes The Top 40 In Another Quiet Week
2025 off to a predictably sleepy start
The latest UK charts are in and, with only one new release to speak of, the list is much as you might expect. Ys Memoire: The Oath in Felghana was the only new entry to the chart this week, just sneaking into the top 40 to land in 38th in its debut week (with a 53%/47% console split for PS5 and Switch,...
Japanese Charts Super Mario Party Jamboree Surpasses 1 Million Units Sold
Keeping the party going
We're back with the latest Japanese charts folks; the first of 2025! It's a little bit different for this first go around, too. Famitsu has posted software sales figures for the two weeks of 23rd-29th December and 30th Dec - 5th January, but no hardware figures. We'll collate the top ten games for both weeks here, and...
Thursday9th Jan 2025
News Four First-Party Switch Games Nominated For New York Game Awards
Zelda, Paper Mario and more
We're still in that part of the year where end-of-year events are taking place and next up is the 14th annual New York Game Awards. Although no Nintendo games are in the running for the 'Game of the Year' award, some first-party Switch titles have been nominated in certain other categories. This includes Zelda: Echoes of...
Monday6th Jan 2025
UK Charts 2025 Gets Off To A Predictable Start, With Familiar Faces Dominating
New year, same tiers
The new year is finally upon us, and it's time to see how the charts are shaping up for their first appearance in 2025. Overall, it's much as you might expect. The usual suspects of Hogwarts Legacy and EA Sports FC 25 sit at the top of the table, though Elden Ring continues its surprise resurgence and climbs to third to close...
Tuesday31st Dec 2024
UK Charts Nintendo Switch Closes Out 2024 With The Old Favourites
The holiday pickups
The final full week of 2024 has been and gone, and by the time you're reading this, it might even be 2025 where you are — hello from the past! Anyway, in the UK, we've got the final full 2024 results for the boxed charts, and it's another solid and predictable week for... well, everyone. While the top ten isn't as healthy as...
Friday27th Dec 2024
Japanese Charts What Successor? Switch Hardware Sales Top 100,000
Spare a thought for PS5 and Xbox
Nintendo's gamble to save its 'Switch 2' announcement for the New Year has seemingly paid off - at least in Japan, anyway. Starting with software, Super Mario Party Jamboree has once again topped the boxed charts, selling a further 133,542 copies and inching ever closer to a total of 1 million lifetime sales. Dragon...
Monday23rd Dec 2024
Video Here Are Alex's Top 5 Nintendo Switch Games Of 2024
Merry Alex-mas, ya filthy animal
Third time's a charm, as they say. Yes, we're back with our third and final look at our video team's top five Switch games of 2024. It's worth repeating here that these aren't necessarily games that launched in 2024, but are merely games that the video chaps played in 2024. You'll see why we felt the need to...
UK Charts Nintendo Can Be Proud Of Its Last Christmas Before 'Switch 2'
Top 40 is chock full of Switch games
Well folks, in what is presumably the last Christmas period before Nintendo unleashes its next major hardware, Switch games have performed admirably as folks look to fill those stockings come Wednesday morning. In fact, let's look at the numbers here: 8 games in the top 10 are either Switch exclusive or can be...
Sunday22nd Dec 2024
News Super Mario Run Celebrates Super Mario Party Jamboree In New Crossover Event
Get this party started
To celebrate the recent arrival of Super Mario Party Jamboree, Nintendo's mobile runner game Super Mario Run is hosting a special limited-time event. This includes three types of missions to participate in - including Rainbow Galleria Missions, Goomba Lagoon Missions, and King Bowser's Keep Missions. If you complete these...
Thursday19th Dec 2024
Japanese Charts Super Mario Party Jamboree Is On A Roll
You Got A(nother) Star!
Sigh. Another week, another Jamboree win. Yes, the latest look at the physical software charts from Japan is in (thanks, Famitsu), and Super Mario Party Jamboree has rolled yet another winner, putting an additional 95,817 sales on top of its already impressive total. Overall, things look very same-y this week, with the...
Monday16th Dec 2024
UK Charts The Usual Suspects Make Up The Top Ten As Christmas Approaches
It's the most predictable time of the year ♫
In the UK this week, familiar faces make up the majority of the top ten boxed charts as customers look to get their preparations in order for Christmas Day. As such, we've got EA Sports FC 25, Hogwarts Legacy, and Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 all standing proud atop the podium with no alterations to their...
Thursday12th Dec 2024
Japanese Charts FANTASIAN Sneaks Into The Top 10 As Mario Party Rolls Another Winner
Lucky dice
Well, this is becoming something of a trend, isn't it? After retaking the throne last week, Super Mario Party Jamboree has stuck around at the top of the Japanese charts in Famitsu's latest look. In fact, the top three are unchanged this week, with Jamboree, Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe all maintaining their...
Monday9th Dec 2024
UK Charts Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Leads The Pack For Nintendo, As Familiar Faces Hold The Podium
Guess who's back
After a quick look at the latest UK boxed software charts? Well, you've come to the right place. With Black Friday sales fizzling out, things have mostly returned to normal this week. The big three of EA Sports FC 25, Hogwarts Legacy and Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 assume their positions on the podium once again, leaving Mario Kart 8...
Thursday5th Dec 2024
Japanese Charts Mario Party Jamboree Ends Dragon Quest III's Reign
Back for another star
After two big weeks of Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake dominance, Famitsu's latest look at the Japanese physical software charts has a new champion. Super Mario Party Jamboree has rolled back into the top spot, with an additional 56,032 sales pushing the latest board game bonanza past 500,000 total sales and ahead of Dragon...
Tuesday3rd Dec 2024
Round Up No One Does Switch Commercials Like Nintendo Australia
Tissues at the ready
Marketing is such an important part of making a console a success. Even Reggie Fils-Aimé stated in his memoir that the idea for the 'Wii Would Like to Play' campaign for the Nintendo Wii – which was initially shot down by Satoru Iwata – ended up being instrumental in the system's rapid success in the US. For the Switch,...
UK Charts Mario Party Jamboree Hangs Tight As We Roll Into The Holiday Season
Dice another day
With Black Friday capping off last week, part of us expected the UK charts to be a little shaken up when we first peeked at the data this morning. But while there are some bumps in the later entries, the top ten remains as stable as ever... maybe we'll see the discount ramifications next week. Super Mario Party Jamboree is once...
Thursday28th Nov 2024
Japanese Charts There's No Stopping Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake
Another big one for Square's latest
Famitsu is back with our latest look at the physical software sales chart for Japan, and it's another week in the top spot for Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake. Square Enix's latest pulled in an additional 91,362 copies between Switch and PS5 this week, which is far from its debut's 821,770 total, but it's still...
