Super Mario Odyssey Is Japan's Fastest-Selling 3D Mario Outing

Wow

This is quite unbelievable!! Much deserved.

Poor Super Mario 3D World. It's by far my favorite of the 3D Mario games.

Well done and deserved. Now you could ask yourself why that is. My opinion is that it's the first original fully 3D outing on a handheld. 3D Land(no coincidence that it's number 2 in the chart) like 3D World wasn't a proper 3D game in the truest sense of the word. Also the Japanese absolutely lap up handhelds. Look at Galaxy and its sequel, the Wii sold 100 + million, the 3DS has sold around 65 million while the Switch is around 10 million and yet the 2 handheld games have sold approximately 40% more than what the 2 Galaxy games sold.

Interesting, 3D world aside it's a list that grows with the time. Every new entry sold best than the predecessor!

Mario is selling "super" well!

The bigger surprise to me is that the biggest seller up until now was 3D Land!

Thoroughly deserved and probably my favourite game on the Switch right now and the best 3D Mario since 64

Go 3D Land!

Can't help but wonder if the Wii U may have sold better if it had a proper 3D Mario game to it's name.

Thoroughly deserved though......It may still be the hype of being relatively new but it's slowly taken over as my all time favourite Mario Game

All great games. Enjoyed them all.

Note that these figures are not lifetime total sales but total sales after 8 weeks for each game. A more guarded statement is that Super Mario Odyssey is on track to become the most successful 3D Mario outing.

Wow, good times for Nintendo. Switch is magic, Odyssey will be selling for a long time yet too!

Wow !

Btw, speaking about 3D World, i thought the Haunted Mansion theme was very Different with other Spooky themes. Instead of spooky, i felt the theme was much like an Elegy, especially played by Violin, a Sorrow rather than a Fright.

The Spookiest is still from Galaxy 2, Spooky as Hell !

They don't know what they're missing, I thought SMG 1 & 2 were better than SMO. Not a lot better, but there was some truly amazing use of space and gravity and costumes in the SMG games that I felt SMO didn't expand upon. It felt like SMO was SMG 3 but without the newness and innovation.

If Switch gets SMG HD ports they are in for a treat.

@jonatan Thanks for that clarification. It puts things into a better perspective

@rjejr
I felt a bit dizzy to play Mario Galaxy.
Probably the Gravity that twist the gameplay, make harder to see Upside Down Mario or Mario standing on platform with different Gravity.

8 week sales? What kind of arbitrary milestone is that?

@Pod It the very best milestone for comparing Mario Odyssey today.

Quite a surprised as Mario 64 normally came boxed with N64 console.
At last, now that has Nintendo sorted out their games, sort out My Nintendo and Virtual Console, please!!

And it totally deserves every bit of fame it's getting.

Makes sense. The game is amazing.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE but... How can 3D Land not be truly 3D. 3D is in the title... and it's on the 3DS... and the game is in LITERAL 3D when the 3D slider is turned up. It's playstyle is more like the 2D games, sure, but 3D Land was definitely the first true 3D Mario game on a portable, and that definitely contributed to it's sales.

I think Odyssey's sales moreso have to do with it's awesome marketing, and just the fact that it is an awesome game, in a playstyle a lot of people forgot that they wanted back until now. Then there's the obvious fact that Odyssey released in time for the Holiday rush during the Switch's first year on sale. That's helping tremendously.

@-DG
I'd say the first truly 3D Mario game on a portable was Mario 64 DS, but as a port it hardly counts.

@Pod Good point! I hadn't thought of that!

@Anti-Matter "I felt a bit dizzy to play Mario Galaxy."

It is very disorienting, I can just imagine trying to play it in VR, our heads would snap off of our necks trying to keep up.

3D World deserves a re-release. Was a bit wasted on Wii U...

Hmmm interesting that its selling above 3DS entry. I think this is a sign that the Switch will sell above 3DS. So I predict a bold 85-90m Switches.

SMO deserves all the success and much more but justice for 3D World. I feel quite a few Wii U games should be part of a "just in case you missed it" line on the Switch. They deserve to be played.

If you include digital sales, Super Mario Odyssey has just outsold both Super Mario Galaxy games LTD in Japan.

The best-selling 3D Mario game in Japan is Super Mario 3D Land, which is sitting at ~2.1 million units sold. Mario Odyssey should reach and surpass those numbers, but it will take a while (probably by the end of 2018).

In the west, Mario Odyssey is also the fastest selling 3D Mario game and is crushing Mario 3D Land in sales, so I feel quite confident that it will become the best-selling 3D Mario game worldwide overall. Mario Galaxy currently holds that record at just under 13 million copies sold LTD, so 15+ million copies sold LTD is not out of the question for Mario Odyssey.

@Marios-love-child @SLIGEACH_EIRE

Can the 3D Mario series just be a series with different styles of 3D Mario without all this "proper 3D" or "true 3D game" malarky?

Because an equal argument could be made to say SM64, Sunshine and Odyssey are not "true Mario platformers" because they aren't linear in design and drop a lot of the conventions of traditional Mario platformers. I just think "true", "proper" stuff is a really lame way to try and force a divide between games.

@Dr_Lugae
Agreed. This "real" vs "not real" 3D Mario thing needs to stop.

Mario 3D Land + World, much like Mario 64 + Sunshine + Galaxy + Galaxy 2 + Odyssey, are platformers in 3 dimensions starring Mario. Thus, they are absolutely 3D Super Mario games.

One could argue about whether each of the 3D Mario games are exploration-based or linear & objective-based, but they are all still 3D Super Mario games.

@Dr_Lugae @westman98

First of all if I could just point out that I've never noticed anyone try to say that Super Mario 3D world is in anyway an inferior game or even a bad game... It's actually quite a brilliant game to be fair.

It's just that its a different type of 3D Mario game (different isn't always a bad thing)

I've personally always viewed it (and 3D Land) as a 2d Mario game in a 3D setting. In other words you have get to the flag pole at the end of the level within a set time limit, it just feels a bit restrictive and very little exploration involved. Odyssey in comparison has a very open world feel to it.

As one of you said above we could argue all day about what to call it, exploration-based or linear & objective-based and yes at the end of the day it is technically still a 3D Mario game.

But one thing you can't deny is that its a different type of 3D Mario game.

I've used this reference to make my point before but it's a little like comparing Apples & Oranges....... You could argue that they're both types of Fruit but that's where the similarities start & end.

Great! It probably shows Nintendo that people love 3D Mario's. And in their home-country at that. For a long time Nintendo thought 3D Mario's where to difficult to understand for people.