UK Charts: Princess Peach: Showtime Can't Usurp EA From Its Throne

I’m not surprised. Showtime is a very mediocre Nintendo game, possibly their worst release in years.

@PinderSchloss "toddler game"

VK called and it wants its juvenile comments back.

To be expected, I think even if PPS ends up a big hit, it's sales will mostly be spread-out and ride on birthday presents, children asking for it etc.

The children in the target audience aren't the sort of hardcore audience who will have £50 at hand to buy day one.

I wonder if EA FC was on sale like it was in the US.

If anyone's interested, I saw Game selling WarioWare for £14.99 last week. Mentioning as it's unusual to see a boxed first party Nintendo game that cheap.

Can't remember which one it was, it's not a series I've ever been into.

Sad to see rebirth drop so much for such a good game. These are the kind of games we need to support if we don’t want live service and micro transactions to become the norm.

Quite high for such a barebones easy game..

Bluey is back on Top 40. 😄

@JohnnyMind Very Serious Gamers™ need challenge, a powerful and compelling storyline, at least 50-100 hours gameplay and a very deep control system. Princess Peach has none of this so it is therefore receiving their scorn.

@WiltonRoots lol yeah I remember in the last 90s one of my favourite childhood games for N64 was Yoshi's Story, and a lot of it was because it was quite easy to beat compared to the gameover fest of all my Sega Megadrive games.

The old message boards of the 90s probably had people cursing that game too, even though it serves an audience of younger fans.

You only have to look.at FF7 Rebirth languishing to see the consequences of not garnering a younger audience to replace older fans.

@Dr_Lugae Yoshi's Story...that theme! Yep sometimes people forget games can just be nice experiences rather than a constant challenge, I caught a bit of someone doing a playthrough of Peach over the weekend and it looks like a lot of fun, not my cup of tea, just something chill to unwind to.

I ended up deciding to take the plunge on Peach and rather enjoyed it. It is definitely kind of a breezy baby game, but there isn't really anything inherently wrong with that, it does a fine job of being what it's trying to be as just kind of a chill kind of game to unwind to.

Oh, btw.
For peoples calling Princess Peach Showtime as baby game, I mean what's wrong to play easy games for kids?
I like to play easy games, nothing wrong with that.
It will not hurt you for an adult to play kiddie games.

This game honestly never really had a chance to be a big contender for big sales. Even if it was the best game ever, it having a girly pink princess on the front was never going to allow it to sell very well.

That's not me trying to throw shade at the game, it is a good game and deserving of attention. But most people who are less into gaming will look at the box art and be like, huh. Then glance over to the next game on the shelf that moreso deserves their hard earned money.

It is how it is. Maybe I'll be proven wrong and the game will still sell a large amount, but a Peach game like this just isn't that big a contender. It'll probably sell like a million at least though, if not close to it. Which... I guess would still make it a big contender in a way because in the grand scheme of things, I do wonder how many games, percentage wise, realistically sell a million copies.

Not surprising given how popular footie is here in the UK. I don't get the appeal but each to their own I guess. Nice to see dragons dogma 2 doing well out the gate though.

@DogDetective feels like Nintendo phoning it in at this point, waiting for next console.

@somnambulance FC24 is on sale across both physical and digital (80% in the PSN store, also part of the Amazon Spring Sale). It's not really that much of a shock.

Are the 'platform split' %s based on total boxed sales since release? Or boxed sales from the given week?

Love all this data, very interestingly - and put together in an easily digestible format by the NL team.

Appealing to casual gamers and kids is fine, but I think Nintendo overdoes it. At the very least, did they really need to release Peach after Wonder and Donkey Kong? If it weren't for the great third-party and indie titles on Switch I would seriously consider abandoning them. Again.

While I can't attest to PPS's actual quality due to being in no real rush to play it, some people here sure sound like jerks in the way they express their disdain for it.

@ForAllCats Lighten up. Nice of you to make an account to come at me though, I'm touched...

@BrazillianCara I don't get it either, they can ignore it quite easily. It's no biggie.

I've seriously been enjoying Princess Peach Showtime. The hub really reminds me of Super Mario 64. It's a good game to chill to over a weekend. Glad I got it on release.

$60 dollar price tag for a mid 70's game will stop a lot of people from buying this game who might have thought about buying it...

@johnedwin curious to see the Japanese charts on Thursday too. It’ll be an interesting barometer.

@WiltonRoots it will sell a few hundred thousand first week in japan and easily be on top.. .

Honestly don't understand why there should be shame in not selling quite as much as a soccer game and a highly anticipated multi-platform RPG.

On a side note, if I’m reading the list above correctly, MK11 Ultimate is selling a lot better than its sequel, MK1.

Wow…!

Nothing wrong with Peach Showtime, I would argue its not easy when collecting everything some collectibles are tough to find and get! Also some of the precision in the cooking can be hard!!

I think it's surprising they did this well. EA sports and dragon dogma or whatever are both franchises (well dragon dogma I guess is now, I have no idea what it is) while peach is a new franchise and yes it is Mario but not like a platformer or kart racer.

@Olliemar28 Just a small error. You state "Final Fantasy fever has seemingly gripped Switch owners to bring Final Fantasy VII & Final Fantasy VIII Remastered - Twin Pack back into the top ten."

It's at no. 28 👍

@DogDetective you clearly don't remember 1 2 Switch, Mario Tennis Aces, Paper Mario: the Origami King, Mario Golf Super Rush, or Mario Strikers Battle League, all of which are far weaker releases than Peach Showtime.

@WiltonRoots ah, yes, "very serious gamers," indeed.

So I guess Zelda and Metroid are the only meaningful Nintendo franchises, then.

This is a joke, in case you were wondering.

Princess Peach Showtime really isn't much different to Nintendo's usual offerings. It's no more of a "kids" game than Mario Wonder or Mario Kart is.

And for some ridiculous reason, it has the same rating as Zelda BOTW/TOTK in the U.S. (while most other countries have issued the Zelda games the equivalent of a "Teen" rating).

@batmanbud2 yep made me giggle! Life's too short to get mad over light entertainment.

If you feel like you are in need of a relaxing game with good vibes, I would recommend Princess Peach Showtime! to you.

If you don't 'collect' games I'd definitely recommend buying Peach on cartridge for Mario fans who sell their games on. It offers a good 6 hours of playtime.

I couldn't be bothered to go back to collect the Gems I'd missed though after completing the story.

Already sold my copy on eBay so after fees/postage it has cost me £2 which isn't bad at all. 🙂

@DogDetective Mario VS. Donkey Kong is way weaker of a release. At least some effort went into Peach even though it's a hard pass for me.

@RubyCarbuncle Exactly, I've put in 5 hours this weekend to it and I expect it will take me about 10 hours all in. I haven't found any framerate issues either, it's a solid 8/10 from me. Well worth picking up. I hope it hangs in the charts for a few weeks, it deserves too.

I loved Peach, it was so fun and a nice break from some of the games I normally play.

I notice the same attitudes in the book world, some people are upset if you’re not reading Tolstoy all the time because god forbid you’d want a break from heavy literature and want to rest with a YA/middle grade novel for a bit. Life shouldn’t be so serious.

@batmanbud2 haha Origami King, once you accept that horrendous combat system is gonna be there throughout the whole game, is really the second best Paper Mario (just below TTYD). The writing in that game is so freaking inspired, it's hilarious

@Olliemar28

I just asked the question if it needed to break records.
It’s not a game that will sell as much as some other Nintendo games because of the target audience. So I was just wondering if we should expect it to sell more if it never had that intention.

I never mentioned you insinuating anything.
But I’m sorry I offended you.

I see some games have a percentage for the platform it's sold on, but what about PC? Most of those games are on PC too.

As always I wonder about digital sales.

Fascinating to see which games get higher PS numbers versus Switch numbers and vice-versa. Example Bluey being 97% Switch or RDR being so PS skewed. Just fun.