There have been a number of battle royale games released on the Nintendo Switch, but one of the more surprising releases was Pac-Man 99 last April. This game had players trying to outlast their online competitors to be the last player standing.
If you've downloaded it on the Switch, you're definitely not alone, with Bandai Namco recently revealing the game has now had a whopping 9 million downloads.
To celebrate this milestone, Bandai Namco is holding a 35% off sale on the Mode Unlock, and 50% off the game's Deluxe Pack in select regions between now and November 20th.
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Neat (moves on with life)
That means less than 1% of the 110 million Switch consoles sold have this free game installed. That's...not particularly great.
It's kind of a fun game, although I personally enjoy tetris99 and mario35 (rip) much more. I hope more games with this concept are made since some are super fun.
just checked and the room still has to autofill with bots, makes me wish mario 35 stayed cause thats a much more manageable amount of players to grab per round
Give it a physical edition, like Tetris 99 got.
Yeh and how many like me deleted it straight after download
Congrats. Pac Man 99 was a fun surprise for NSO members that felt like a fun in-between from Classic Pac Man and Championship Edition. Dropped off of it earlier than I did with Tetris 99 though. Would have been neat if Pac Man 99 had similar Maximus Cup events
@Not_Soos You might want to calculate that again.
110 million consoles sold.
so, 1.1 million would be 1%.
so, 9 million is close to 10%.
Does anyone even play this game anymore? Man I miss the mario version, it was just so fun!
I forgot this game existed honesty, it's not nearly as replayable as Tetris 99.
@Not_Soos Well it's not really free since you have to pay for NSO to access it.
Well deserved, although I personally played it for a whole ten minutes before getting reminded that I suck even at single player Pac-Man, let alone a battle royale one.😅
Must admit I never played it again after coming 1st. I prefer the Pacman Museum game.
Got it, play it every now and again as it's alright, but there's no way I'm spending real-world money on this.
Enjoyable game, as someone said above it would be cool to have a physical version like Tetris 99, which I’ve played loads (100+ hours) compared to Pac-Man 99 (about 5 hours).
Haven't played this in ages.
Bring back Super Mario Bros. 35
I have downloaded it, but only played it a single time lol
@Not_Soos It's over 8%, and it's not exactly "free", it comes free with the online service.
Edit: Looks like I was beat to both these points lol
I thought Tetris 99 and Super Mario Bros. 35 were better, but I've enjoyed my time with this one too. And I've even managed to win a handful of times.
@Bret @Not_Soos you are also not obligated to download it
Massive fan of this tetris 99 and mario 35. I would love to see a shmup version of this too.
@boxyguy I one hundred percent agree. I'm in Eastern Canada and even during busier times of the week (fri eve, sat aft, sat eve, sun aft, sun eve) that's exactly right: You not only get the 'CPU #' bots, but after playing dozens of games I can tell that they have some bots made to look like human players. I repeatedly notice that the time gap between about 80 and 65 players remaining is tiny. If you look at the standings after the game, these players tend to have run of the mill names and are generally level 10 (or level 5, can't remember, one of those for sure). Do you find that too @boxyguy?
In addition to that dynamic, I imagine millions of the those downloads are "oh, it's free, why not" and the player tries it and either plays it just a few times or gets tired of it/frustrated with it after a couple cumulative hours. Some others may have purchased the offline modes and mainly stuck with those. Also, given the game launched on April 7, 2021, you have the natural attrition over time that many online games encounter (case in point: mario tennis aces, which i love, but player pop is hella low)..
But 9M is 9M!
@JetForceGemInEye the bots have been more blatant for me, like their names being CPU#1, CPU#2, ect. i didnt pay attention to their levels, but i agree its easy to tell when bots autofill. after like 40ish players enter theres a delay before all the slots suddenly get filled at once
@Not_Soos Wanted to say something about decimals and stuff…
But maybe just download it and try it?
I love this game and still play it from time to time, but there are never more than a couple dozen other players online. Probably half of the competitors are bots. Glad to see it's still being supported, though.
Unlike the fantastic Super Mario Bros. 35
glares disappointedly at Nintendo
That's cool.
I still play the game from time to time.
Do the people above realize NSO doesn’t have 110 Million SUBSCRIBERS?
It’s at around 35/38M subs (last number was 32M about a year ago), a far cry from 110M.
So, NO, it wasn’t downloaded from “just” 10% of people who could’ve done so. More around 25%.
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