UK Charts: Mario & Luigi: Brothership Drops Anchor Outside The Top Ten

RIP Mario and Luigi, you will be missed

@YunoboCo everyone's a drama queen.

I'm enjoying my time with it but dang it just has too many little things that bother me. Luigi can't be controlled in the overworld, you can't swap positions or hammers (it looks like there are some long gaps so maybe I can do the helicopter thing later), you can't press B to use Luigi in battle, the load times for battles is just a little long, and it stutters constantly.

Over than that it's a good RPG experience so far but I can't help but constantly think "man if I were playing Superstar Saga or Inside Story none of these issues would be happening."

@N00BiSH Falling out of top 10 this quickly is concerning, not sure why that makes me a "drama queen" lol

My idea to make a top #1 selling game in the UK:

Lego Harry Potter Farming Simulator 👍

Holy crap, 6 of the top 10 games are published by Nintendo, half of the Hogwarts Legacy sales are on Switch, and even for FC 25, Switch is a major platform.

Nintendo Switch, almost 8 (eight!) years on the market.

@YunoboCo It's just a bit hasty to assume that the series will cease to exist just because one game isn't super high on a top sellers' list.

@N00BiSH It's happened plenty of times before though, Marvel vs Capcom Infinite comes to mind real quick.

Is this physical or inc digital?

@K1LLEGAL physical only, Nintendo doesn't disclose eShop sales.

Mario & Luigi deserves more love. It's my first game in the series (I've played all Paper Marios though), I'm about half way in now, and I'm absolutely LOVING it. Fantastic game!

Also how can Dragon Quest be so low...? I expected it to sell much better... Oh well, at least in Japan it will sell like hotcakes for sure. We'll ser tomorrow.

@IceClimbersMain I think that had more to do with that game's mixed reception than the sales. They're still technically supporting MvC through stuff like the collection.

@N00BiSH That is fair, but the developer is supposedly going to be bought by Sony (according to the rumors at least) so it isn't just the sales

@rjejr add some DLC and season passes and you get LEGO Harry Potter Farming Football/Soccer Shooter Simulator with Mario

And yes, in the weird mind of someone, that's probably a thing.

I am actually quite glad about number 13 and 14, it will be very interesting to see how Dragon Quest performed in Japan. It did perform awful in the german Amazon shop too.

Not sure how to feel about Mario & Luigi though, but I will start playing it today to see for myself whether it is good or not.

@YunoboCo Well Acquire's acquisition is still up in the air, but even if that does happen, Nintendo would most likely just shop M&L around to another dev team.

Nintendo need to get back to its home studios AAA magic.
Switch has gone very quickly from hero to zero from 2023 to 2024 and the way things seem to be panning out way into 2025 as well.

My switch has not been touched for the whole of 2024.

@OldGamer999 Can you elaborate? This year has been great for the Switch, considering it's in its eighth year, man!
The Paper Mario TTYD remake, Zelda EoW, Mario Party Jamboree and this Mario & Luigi are all fantastic games, even must-have for any Switch owner. Not to mention there have been a lot of great third party games, such as Prince of Persia, Unicorn Overlord, Trails Through Daybreak, Epic Mickey, Ys X, Sonic & Shadow, Romancing Saga 2, Dragon Quest 3...

0% for My Universe: Pet Clinic on PS4?!

A certain somebody is going to be totes devoed.

Dang, PlayStation fans must hate Pet Clinic is every last sale was only on Switch.

@the_beaver @OldGamer999 Agreed with the_beaver, 100%. For a system in its twilight year(s) this has been a very solid year from both Nintendo and third parties, not to mention the deluge of indie games that continue to hit the console.

Sure, we didn’t get the biggest games this year but a new 2D Zelda and a new Mario RPG (with a great remake of a fan favorite to boot) are nothing to sneeze at. Nintendo’s top teams are clearly working on Switch 2 games so with that in mind this has been a good outing IMO.

Quite unfortunate but there are lots of other markets and digital sale that might make brothership a success

Wow, My Universe:Pet Clinic on number 21 ?? 😃

And Bluey on number 37. 😊

Oh...!
Monster High: Skulltime Secrets by Outright Games is on number 36.

@LavenderShroud
Who said PS4 fan hate My Universe: Pet Clinic ?
I like that casual game by Microids.

@N00BiSH I feel like Brothership also has had mixed reactions, maybe even more so than Infinite. That's where the "disappointing" sales numbers come in.

Also, Infinite came out in 2017, and it was confirmed that talks for the Marvel collection started in 2021/2022. They went dormant for longer than Mario and Luigi did.

@SillyG
Don't worry.
I will be the fan of My Universe: Pet Clinic PS4 version and will play it on my PS5 to get 4K 60 fps performance.
One support for My Universe games from me.

This is the UK. Anything Nintendo that isn't a Mario EAD/EPD platformer, Mario Kart, or Zelda isn't staying on the charts for long anyway.

@Anti-Matter You know, that actually looks like quite a cute and charming game. I’d probably be interested in trying it.

It seems like Dragon Age Veilguard will have to pull alot of barves to be forgiven.

Many people are waiting for Christmas, with brothership same as other games.
I will also get dragonquest for Christmas and also other pc games.

FIFA, Hogwarts Legacy and Farming Simulator in the top 10.

We Brits sure are a predictable bunch, huh.

@the_beaver
Of course I can.
I’m really only into Nintendos very top in house Studio mainly big AAA 90 plus on meta games.
So of course.
Hero 2023 equals TOTK and Mario Wonder.
And of course some previous years as well.
Zero 2024 equals no big new AAA 90 plus meta games from Nintendo in house studios.

I’m an all three console gamer and only pick the very best from each console to play.

I’m sure Switch 2 will get me back on when Nintendo Studios release some big AAA 90 plus meta games for Switch 2.

But I will say have really enjoyed the Switch but have felt slightly disappointed. To many remakes.
Only 1 new Mario 3d platformer game.
Only 1 new Mario 2d platformer game.

However 2 new Zelda 3d games have been amazing on Switch.

Cool to see a lot of people playing Hogwarts on Switch. Amazingly done port.

It'll be interesting to see how well MySims does in next week's charts, I saw it climb the eshop charts very fast and is currently at #1.

@IceClimbersMain I am enjoying it too, but I agree. And the reviewers were not wrong, it is an overly chatty game in the dialog sections.

Still, I find that I want to play and finish it. I haven’t given up yet nor felt the need to move on to a different game. 😊

This may change after I finish it, but I would probably score this around 7/10 or 8/10.

@OldGamer999
"Only 1 new Mario 3d platformer game."
Bowser's Fury exists. It's short, but it's absolutely worth playing.
"Only 1 new Mario 2d platformer game."
Super Mario Maker 2 has an entire built-in campaign that's solid.

Limiting yourself to games that score at around a 90 or above also seems really arbitrary to me? If you have limited time, I kinda get only focusing on the cream of the crop, but there are plenty of games that are highly regarded that score lower. Some of my favorite offerings from Nintendo on Switch have been in the 70s and 80s, like New Pokemon Snap and Kirby and the Forgotten Land.

@Anti-Matter Me and my brother love finding cheap bargain bin games. He recently got some Japanese games he can’t read and he gave me a Power Rangers game. For us, those are just as good, I’m not better than most AAA games from major companies.

@PikaPhantom
I do have certain amount of limited time.
But I just like big AAA top end meta 90 plus games.
That goes from all companies. The difference to me is the pure polish in every aspect over every part of the game.
Plus new games take me forward and use new technology.

@Anti-Matter
It’s each gamer to themselves what they enjoy and love to play.
That’s why gaming is so great, diversity for every type of gamer.

Played a bit of it so far. Honestly quite disappointed. It's no Paper Jam at least, but I expected way better from such a comeback. Art style is ...different. Not sure if I like it. Plenty of lag spikes. Writing has fallen off a cliff IMO. The fact Luigi doesn't use B for selecting action commands is the absolute worst. He also just controls himself on the field now which I also hate, makes him feel like just a general AI partner instead of a second player character. Still hoping for a Partners in Time remake, but can't say I'm surprised by the somewhat lukewarm reception to this one anymore.

So wait, Hogwarts sold well on Switch last week?

It’ll get a second wind after the Next Switch comes out I’m sure, along with other Switch games. The next gen library will certainly be a slower build than Switch and Wii U, so backward compatibility will come in handy especially if performance improvements are on the table

It’s really impressive how Nintendo manages to create so many successful games that sell throughout the entire gen without the “live service games or nothing” mindset that every major publisher seems to be into these days.

I wish Sony attempted to mimic Nintendo on this. So annoying that the follow-up to the amazing PS4 gen has been this race for the next Fortnite.

@RenanKJ
Not every PlayStation games are live service or ultra realistic hardcore games.
There are some 3rd party kids games on PlayStation machines like Bluey or Barbie or My Universe who have cuteness and fanciness like 1st party Nintendo games.

I think this will be Super Princess Peach all over again, a pretty solid game doing some pretty solid numbers.

Tbh the Mario & Luigi sales in the UK are almost pointless. If Dragon Quest 3HD is even lower than Brothership's shows how little being an established JRPG series actually means here.

There's just less demand for the genre here compared to Japan, the US and France. Those will be the most important countries in whether it does well or not.