UK Charts: Mario vs. Donkey Kong Swings Past The Competition In Its Debut Week

Mario vs Donkey Kong is just what I needed. Great fun!

Loving mario vs dk so far! Never played the original.

Wow thats impressive! Gotta get this game soon!

Wow I certainly didn't expect to see that, but good for it!

Good! Let's hope this proves to Nintendo that we want more of the original puzzle-platformer style of gameplay and less shovelware-tier Lemmings clones.

I have to admit though, I'm kinda surprised that this game is selling better in the UK than Super Mario RPG. This game is nice and all, but Mario RPG is in a league of its own. Any fan of Mario and/or RPGs owes it to themselves to try that game out.

This is a living evidence of that Switch still sells. There's no hurry for "Switch 2".

That Mario vs Donkey is 1 this week for itself is insane.

That Hogwarts Legacy Switch version sells more than 52% despite being unplayable according to many people just tells everything, while that EA Sports 24 Switch just sells some percent below the PS5 version are just crazy.
Still many people still claims that third-party games on Switch sells badly...

And, according to you, Nintendo is on a crisis situation in Europe hahahaha.

Mario stomping Skull and Bones and Helldivers 2? Always bet on red indeed

The breakdown of Hogwarts Legacy sales only adds up to 96%, so where’s the other 4% come from? 🤔

[EDIT] Just noticed there’s no Series X|S in the breakdown, so it must be that. Only goes to show just how poor Xbox are in boxed sales. Pun definitely intended.

I mean.... Well done but realistically it seems a smart release week with no competition besides ageing evergreen titles?

In a month where both Microsoft and Sony announce more multiplatform games to make their business sustainable, Nintendo go do this whilst operating debt free and sitting on 11 billion dollars.

And yet, most Youtubers claim to know better.

even before the switch version came out hogwarts had sold close to 20 million copies world wide these numbers do not add up

are these numbers based on one week sales? it cannot be in total

I'm glad some UK peoples still like Bluey game, even the PS5 version. ☺

Just got my copy. Never played the original so it's a new game to me. Only played a couple levels so far but I'm liking it so far. I especially dig the cool jazz background music.

Surprised a AAAA game only made it to number 4 😂

@Eggolor I’ve just completed Mario RPG (literally 30 mins ago!) and I must say I found it very meh. I can’t pinpoint why exactly though. It looks nice, is charming, and I like how quick it was to do the battles and the fast travel. But something didn’t click. I just felt like I was going through the motions and I’m glad I can start a new game now!

@GravyThief I see. Perhaps you feel that way because it was the very first Mario role-playing game released back in the 90s, so it's very much a product of its time. Those who grew up playing newer RPGs, including Mario & Luigi and early Paper Mario, might not understand the hype behind it. I myself didn't grow up with the game either (my first Mario RPG was Paper Mario 64), and while I do enjoy the succeeding Mario RPGs more, I realise that those games wouldn't exist without the original SNES game, so I have a lot of respect for it for paving the way for some of my favourite games ever to exist.

@Eggolor Super Mario RPGs remake just had everything going against it, other than it being Mario.

Mario RPG never originally released in the UK outsideof the virtual console, JRPGs just don't do that well here and the UK is one of Nintendo's weakest territories. Mario vs DK did at least release here.

Of the remakes I expect Mario vs DK and maybe Luigis Mansion 2 to do better than TTYD here too. Though TTYD may do better than Mario RPG here given there will be more people who originally played it.

Wish these UK charts has the actual sales figures like the Japanese charts do. Would be interesting to see just how many copies need to be sold to get to No.1 (and see how much MK8 & GTAV are still selling per week)

Seriously impressive results for Mario vs. Donkey Kong. I did not see that coming considering the more simplistic, laidback experience that it is. I doubt that any of the earlier games in the series have ever topped the charts in the UK.

My local store didn't even have them up on shelves when I picked up my copy on Friday afternoon. I really enjoyed the game though. I've been hankering for a "new" Mario vs. Donkey Kong for quite some time, and this hit the spot nicely. I only wish that they had included a port (or remake) of the Amiibo game on 3DS/Wii U as a bonus (seriously, does Nintendo hate money so much that they don't want to sell more of those things?!).

@Sisilly_G I wish we could go back to the period where we just called it a video game as opposed to an <insert adjective> experience. Video games are ace. Hence it's no shock it being number one lol.