Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door And Luigi's Mansion 2 HD Both Surpass One Million Sales

Not bad at all. I reckon this Mario series could take off...

Not bad, considering I don't own either one as of yet. $ 60 is too much.
Costco is selling both games for the fair price of $49.99, FYI.

With so many of the classics now rereleased, remastered or remade and most of the Wii U library ported over, the Switch 2 should see far fewer old games and much more new. A new Mario Kart, a new Donkey Kong will surely arrive. Starfox is due a game. F-Zero 99 could point to a new entry. A Zelda that moves away from the BOTW/TOTK artstyle. And there's room for a Galaxy 1&2 and Ocarina of Time remaster.

The Switch successor is going to be great. I'm ready for it.

The mystery game is Cat Quest III

Maybe the mystery third game is Hogwarts Legacy? Half a year is enough to reach 1 million copies on switch for such a title

I'd like TTYD to match or exceed Super Mario RPG's sales, but that sold 3 or 4 million last I checked.

@Croctopus I'd like to surpass The Origami King, but doesn't look likely

I too am disappointed in the Paper Mario numbers!

I think that third party title is… idk Sonic Superstars?

Likely Prince of Persia or Hogwarts. Both selling well.

Go TTYD! If you don’t have that game, you’re missing out on a masterpiece!

@ScalenePowers @Papery0shi I'm confused by your disappointment. How are those numbers not decent? The game came out May 23rd, so it's only counting eight days of May + June.

The Origami King moved 2.82 copies in under three months after launch. It also launched during the height of the pandemic. This was when people were staying at home and buying more games than usual.

@Lanmanna Mario RPG was over 3 million, and Origami King is currently the highest selling in the series.
The disappointment is that for years paper Mario fans have been hoping to see it return to the old formula and have convinced ourselves that if the series were to be a more traditional RPG once more that it would propel the series into a greater popularity. I think we are hoping to see this one be the highest selling Mario RPG so that the series will continue in the style we prefer.

These numbers while commendable in their own way, don’t support the cause/make us less confident that Nintendo will go all in on a sequel in this more desirable (to us) formula

@ScalenePowers This!

not necessarily saying it is disappointing, BUT I would love for it to if not surpass TOK, then at least match the sales. I've been waiting for a proper sequel for over 20 years

Looks like The Origami King will probably remain the top-selling Paper Mario game, at least for now. Love to see it. <3

Maybe the TTYD remake would have sold better if they didn't slow everything down (text, menus, etc.), trivialise the difficulty, censor the script and "rewrite" Vivian. I certainly didn't buy it because of this, and I was one of those who would have been first in line to pick it up before I learned about all of this stuff.

@Eggolor not everyone is as obsessed with 2 lines of NPC dialogue as you are.

Absolutely 100% deserved, especially for TTDY. That's such a stellar game and everyone should have it.

I hope it’s enough to make Nintendo happy.

(And you know, make more classic style paper Mario games)

Nice seeing both games do well. I do wonder how well Brothership will do, 3 Mario RPGs in the space of a year was an odd choice.

That third party game is certainly interesting. I feel like Hogwarts honestly passed 1 million earlier than this. So yeah, maybe FC 24??? I don't know, just throwing stuff at the wall here.

Hogwarts or Sonic Superstars I think. SS got discounted a lot on Amazon and Argos since release, even down to 22-25 pounds at times.

@Eggolor Vivian was re-written in the original English release, which made her a plainly cis woman instead of an otokonoko. The new translation is more faithful to the character's original concept.

@Eggolor @DiggleDog Except what they did with Vivian was far from the only change they made to the script. There was a lot they changed/censored, some of which is at odds with the original Japanese script, like the scene where some Goombas catcall Goombella - prompting you to give them a beatdown, so it's not like it portrayed it in a positive light or anything. So that argument has its flaws, though there's a chance the Japanese script itself underwent some changes, as Taro Kudo was credited for "text editing" on the remake. But they went so far as to change every single instance of "crazy" and "nuts" for no good reason. No one was going to take offense to those words. Ultimately, the changes produced decidedly mixed results - some of the revised dialogue I do find better, but some of the changes were unnecessary, and some make things far worse for no good reason (especially this "health nut" line - it genuinely reads very poorly now, to the point I think I would've picked up on it being a censored line without knowing what the original said - it would've been on my mind, since Pikmin 2 underwent similar bizarre changes to its script when it was rereleased on Switch).

I had the option of either paying full-price for the remake or borrowing the GameCube original. If all they did was just retranslate some Vivian stuff, the decision would've been a lot harder for me to make. But pile on an overall neutered script, a halved framerate, and seeing complaints about the remake feeling more sluggish (especially in regards to menus in battle and text boxes), and...yeah, I'll put up with some extra backtracking if it means saving my money and getting an experience that's snappier in some regards and less sanitized in others. So many people fell in love with the original TTYD despite its flaws, so I imagine I'll be able to as well (especially because I played Bug Fables).

I've said it before, and I will say it again... My favorite Nintendo franchises are NOT Mario nor Zelda.

My favorite Nintendo franchises are:
1. Luigi's Mansion
2. Donkey Kong Country
3. Kirby

My favorite Nintendo franchise games are:
1. Luigi's Mansion 3 (Switch)
2. Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze (Switch)
3. Kirby's Epic Yarn (Wii)

the final boss on thousand year door was a pain in the rear to beat.

Unicorn Overlord seems a likely candidate to have crossed one million in sales, considering that it passed 500K back in early April. Your article back then noting this event even used the phrase 'one milly.'

@OorWullie

I don’t know, I think it’s time for a new Punch Out.

I wish they’d release TTYD first before Mario rpg, I would guess that the first of those would end up selling more, the second would saturate the market/confuse casual gamers

Awesome. Such is the Power of Paper Mario and Luigi!

I know people are probably going to be disappointed that The Thousand-Year Door isn't on track to overtake Origami King, but here's how I look at it. In just one month and a week, it has closed in on its lifetime Gamecube sales. I view that as a good thing.

Just finished TTYD remake, and it is fantastic. I rediscovered the badge shop in Rogueport late game, and found the Gamecube badge that let's you play the original soundtrack in the background. My kids said they need to do a direct sequel to this game, and I agree. Also, those are pretty impressive numbers. I wouldn't count out TTYD passing 2012's Sticker Star at least. It just came out, and is doing very well.

I'm glad TTYD is selling significantly worse than TOK. It's not the crown jewel of JRPGs and it never was.

The fact Luigis Mansion 2 HD managed over 1 million in 3 days vs 6 weeks for TTYD's remake should speak volumes.

Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door on Switch almost surpassing sales of the Gamecube version is good news for the franchise.

Paper Mario is so so good! It’s a timeless game that anyone should experience. I would really love to see them do a paper Luigi game all these years later recounting his rescue of princess eclaire in the waffle kingdom. It would be so cool to have with this game and you return to the very same rougeport as the hub between chapters to see Mario where I imagine each of his partners would recount his story to a grand audience. Poor Luigi would be the unsung hero of course.

I did a little deep dive into the unit sales of all 16 releases in the "Mario RPG" series, and TTYD remake is already in 10th place in the rankings, beating out the original Paper Mario and Partners in Time. It's only been on the market for 73 days, so there is time for it to pass the original TTYD, the original Mario RPG and Superstar Saga. Yes, the gaming market is much larger than the GBA, GCN, and SuperNES days, but there is also a lot more competition!

@DiggleDog Well "everyone" should be "obsessed" then. People should not get away with bad translations and rewrites.

Fire the entire Nintendo Treehouse.

@DiggleDog FYI, it was a lot more than just "2 lines of NPC dialogue" that were rewritten. Go look at the list of changes on the Mario wiki to see just how extensive the rewrites actually were.

Paper Mario deserves to sell waaaaay more! It's a really incredible game, and a fantastic remake. Go get it, guys!