Japanese Charts: Paper Mario: TTYD Stays On Top Despite Drop In Sales

Congratulations on becoming the best selling console of all time in Japan. (I know it happened a few weeks ago...but still!)

That was to be expected with the initial rush gone....and it still tops the charts which is awesome! 🤎

I know it's not Nintendo, but I LOVE seeing Stellar Blade still putting up numbers.

Let’s go Paper Mario on top again! Perhaps the big fall was a supply issue, or most people interested already got it.

Easy to see why Nintendo has never seemed in a rush to release a successor to Switch. Just keeps on selling.

So happy to see TTYD doing so well.

Seems like Stellar Blade and Minecraft are the only two games keeping Sony and Microsoft on the chart, Nintendo rule the rest.

@Nontendo_4DS switch console sales down 69% in america.. year over year it's biggest market... switch 2 should have come out in 2024...

@johnedwin Lmao America.. please.

PS5 sales is still good in Japan and I already have PS5 Fat machine. 😁
Glad I can get PS5 Fat model before it disappeared from the stock.

@johnedwin Perhaps, but if sales are healthy elsewhere, seems they would still be in a strong position to take their time with a successor. I'd imagine they're still working on the system-selling games, as well, and the success of the Switch has earned them some more runway before takeoff.

Xbox Sales this gen are so much stronger in Japan than last gen.

@SoIDecidedTo same it deserves it. Great game that I’m still playing!

TOK will have pulled ahead of TTYD now. I predicted this very closely last week and was only off by 1000:

"Nintendo recently changed their releases to Thursdays instead of Friday though. So TTYDs 1st week had 4 days of sales to TOKs 3 though.

TOK did about 50k its 2nd week so that's about 7k per day the 2nd week. With TTYD outselling it by 5k with 1 extra day. I'd suspect it'll sell about 35k next week and fall behind TOK."

I noticed a lot of my more casual friends got Mario RPG out of a vague memory of the snes game and to see if their kids would like a RPG (we’re in our 40s). Among that crowd no one had TTYD on their radar and had trouble differentiating it from Mario RPG.

Maybe younger gamers will keep sales going, but it’s possible that this will have big early numbers because of its cult status and then fall off a cliff. I kind of wish they released TTYD first

The math isn't quite lining up. Not sure if Famitsu has missed some along the way, but Nintendo of Japan's Q4 records stated that the Japan total was over 34 million back by the end of March. https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2024/240507e.pdf#page=14

@Anti-Matter fat machine????!
also soon nintendo gonna have like political power in japan

@OctolingKing13
Before that I want to get PS5 Slim machine.
But, after I realized the cooler inside PS5 Slim was lesser than PS5 Fat and added with more expensive price of PS5 Slim than PS5 Fat here in Indonesia, I changed my mind and getting PS5 Fat instead.
The machine is huge, but surprisingly it fit inside my backpack (my backpack is President) and I brought home my PS5 machine inside my backpack while the empty PS5 box I hang on my mountain bike handle when I went home.

I'm replaying TTYD after all this time and I am enjoying it but if I'm being honest I think I like Origami King better. I know most will think that's strange but it's true.
Anyway it's still awesome to see the game do well.

@TotalHenshin Nintendo's numbers are probably units shipped, not units sold. Remember Nintendo only knew how much units they shipped to customers, those customers are Best Buy, Walmart, Amazon, GameStop, and Target. Famitsu keeps tracks of when those units actually sold at those retailers.

@Serpenterror Ah, yes, I forgot that distinction. Thank you!

As long as it does better than any of the trash that has come out after it. Hopefully Nintendo will realize they made a mistake butchering it