UK Charts: Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Loses The Crown In Its Second Week (2024)

Witchcraft, I say! This is the work of dark magic!

Hoggs definitely has some long legs.

Well whatever, it's still selling extremely well AND it's in the top 3 still. Glad to hear it's selling well; here's hoping it will outsell the final entry in the False Trilogy (Origami King).

Surprised that the Switch version of Hogwarts Legacy is doing well, I’ve heard it wasn’t a great port

Hogwarts Legacy still sells like crazy and yet Warner Bros Games decides to invest more into live service games even though Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League failed hard

It's almost as if those companies want to fail

Meanwhile the top 5 is ALL nintendo in France !

@Mattock1987 Played on Switch and Steam Deck and the difference is quite vast. If Switch is the only option then players should go for it, its a functional but ugly game - however if other options are available I highly recommend it played there

Phew, glad it's simply in second instead of first because of Hogwarts Legacy which unsurprisingly still sells well in the UK (and love to see that it does so in good part also on Switch)!
@mariomaster96 Couldn't agree more with you, it's exactly what I've been saying whenever such companies come up!

I'm having a great time with TTYD. They made the right choice in prioritising graphics quality over performance, because the art looks beautiful. Love the humour as well.

Is it digital sales as well or only physical

Unusual to see a single-player-only game do this well for this long. It seems to have fallen into a sweet spot where it's a well-made, well-reviewed game that people feel they can play regardless of their demographic.

@ferryb001 I'd understood physical-only.

TTYD is still doing great! I know Harry Potter is more popular in UK than most other places, but I don’t even think Hogwarts Legacy was that good to begin with.

Ok I’ll accept TTYD is the best in the series but just think of a world where super, stickerstar, splash and king are all just reruns of TTYD. 🥱

I plan on picking up my copy whenever I eventually finish Unicorn overlord.

I wonder if TOTK was $60 that it would have had much longer legs and a constant presence in the top 10. That $70 on a Switch game is a huge deterrent

Well Hogleg is multiplatform.

JRPGs was never going to fly in the UK anyways so I could understand why The Thousand-Year Door could lose its position easily. Also does UK really not like Stellar Blade? I could understand the game not making the top 10 or top 20 but to not be in the top 40 is just weird. It's like the game had no chance.

lots of big games with the exception of hogwarts and soccer do not have much staying power in uk top of the charts for the long haul...

@Axecon elden ring is 70 bucks and it has staying power...

@mariomaster96 british effect...

@Mattock1987 my son got it for Christmas for Switch and he’s still loving it almost six months later

@Mattock1987 speaks to the size of the Switch user base….. some people don’t have any other way to play it, tho I suppose there might be some who double dipped to play on the go….

@ozwally I have both and I wouldn't even consider playing the game on Deck when the Switch port exists. Especially when you account for various games without Switch ports that could use its eye-watering PC storage space instead.

Wow the Bigots are really desperate for ANY win right now huh?

@johnedwin I don't think that's a fair comparison. Elden Ring is a multi-platform $70 game on platforms where $70 is the new norm for big AAA games. Plus, it keeps receiving DLC & updates and it had the benefit of winning GOTY for its respective year which gave it a major marketing boost. Zelda TOTK is the first and only true $70 game on Switch, is content complete (no DLC), and had a prequel that was $60. I love TOTK but there is no way it should be a $70 game, and its situation gives it no legs.

@Axecon even in japan elden ring sold a million copies not bad for a non jrpg

@Axecon The reason it looks like Zelda Tears of the Kingdom doesn't look like it has legs compared to Breath of the Wild is because BoTW came out as a launch game and had weaker launch sales than ToTK but every week there was tonnes of new Switch owners and the first major game to get for them was BoTW, whereas ToTK launched to an install base of 130 million and so had huge launch sales but no legs as there's less new switch owners weekly as there was in 2017/18.

@Mattock1987 I think it's just about good enough. It's a solid port of a game that really has no rights to be on Switch. The fact it came out on base PS4/Xbox One makes the downgrade just about passable.

@Woodyshoe perhaps a world of direct mechanical sequels to TTYD would be boring, but it really depends how it’s handled. There’s a lot of room for creativity while still remaining true to the battle system. New badges, new partners and enemies with new abilities, new special moves, horizontal equipment upgrades for Mario rather than just vertical ones, new mechanics to accentuate the existing ones (ala Octopath’s SP or Elemental Weaknesses) etc. TTYD has a lot of these kinds of differences when compared to the original (new partners, superguards, significantly more badge and item variety, papercraft abilities, bowser segments, etc.) but it’s still recognizable as overall similar.

I hope TTYD performs well so that Nintendo can see that a lot of people want more games like it, but I also don’t want them to get the wrong idea and think “okay, let’s do everything exactly the same but change the partners and setting.” Innovation is still welcome.

The battle systems in newer games really aren’t all that bad either, but they are undeniably alienating. Sort of like how back in the day, Other M and Federation Force’s departures from the Metroid games we’d come to expect really wouldn’t have struck such a nerve if we hadn’t waited so long for new entries in the series only to get games that share almost no similarities to what we’d come to expect.

Do people seriously complain about TOTK sales? It sold 2/3 of what BOTW did, but within ONE YEAR. It’s already #9 in the Switch Top10 and easily the second best selling Zelda ever. The price point did not hurt it one bit.

wow im amazed were allowed to coment on this article. without it getting locked down. Now this will get removed no doubt. But if you write something and strongly agree with it then maybee engage with people to change their minds. As in the real world your going find that everyone over 26 dosent just accept thats the end of the discussion.

I can’t believe smash bros doesn’t retain a spot on this list somewhere.

@ferryb001 Nintendo doesn't share its digital sales numbers, so this is purely physical sales.

@Axecon In the UK you could easily get it for less than £50 nearly everywhere. $70 was just an RRP which a lot of major retailers ignored. Much the same as I would imagine it was in the states. SeventyDollarGate was overblown.

@Mattock1987 I imagine the graphics don’t matter to a large chunk of the game’s audience, I would imagine being able to play it anywhere also helped those sales…

I don't know why it had a crown in a first place. Tried it to see what's all the fuss about and the game is (trigger warning) meh.
I'm not shy of playing older titles and re-releases and usually they're fine. But this one? I dunno.

@PikminMarioKirby Hogwarts Legacy Is super boring imo. Sure the world Is beautiful and impressive, but all the talk and the hand-holding and the content gatekeeping...