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Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Switch Version Has Outdone the GameCube Original

By William Parks

Published Nov 5, 2024

William Parks is a The Best War Games editor from the USA. Upon graduating from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts, William entered the realm of fine arts administration, assisting curators, artists, and fine art professionals with the realization of contemporary art exhibitions. All the while, William’s passion for games remained.

William’s first console was the NES, but when he was eight, it was The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening on Game Boy that fully cemented his interest in the format. This interest reached new heights with MMORPGs like Asheron’s Call 2, Star Wars Galaxies, and World of Warcraft, and it has now crystalized around indie games and unique releases.

Summary

The remake of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door for Switch has sold over 1.94 million units.
The lifetime sales of the original GameCube release are 1.91 million units.
The Thousand-Year Door is one of Nintendo's best-selling games released during its 2025 fiscal year.

The Nintendo Switch remake of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door has now sold over 1.94 million units, surpassing the lifetime sales of the original GameCube release. While this sales figure may not compete with those that are attached to Nintendo's biggest first-party titles, like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Animal Crossing: New Horizons, it does suggest that there is notable interest in the Paper Mario series.

The remake of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door was released, to critical acclaim, on May 23, 2024, and the game sold 1.76 million units during its first month on the shelves. This information was revealed in Nintendo's Q1 fiscal year 2025 financial results, and it confirmed that the remake was off to a solid sales start.

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door for Switch has not stopped selling since that Q1 report was released, though, and Nintendo moved an additional 180,000 units of the game during the second quarter of its 2025 fiscal year. This puts the title's total sales at 1.94 million units, as of September 30, 2024, which means that the remake has now surpassed the lifetime sales of the GameCube original. Indeed, the GameCube release of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door reached a total of 1.91 million units sold, and the remake will undoubtedly grow its sales lead as it continues to sell in the upcoming months.

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Remake Sales Hit 1.94 Million Units

While the remake of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door has performed well, it is not the best-selling release from Nintendo's 2025 fiscal year. That title is held by The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, which sold 2.58 million units within just a week of its release. The Thousand-Year Door for Switch has sold better than Luigi's Mansion 2 HD, though, as Nintendo moved 1.57 million units of that game between its June 2024 release and September 30, 2024.

There are also some releases during the third quarter of Nintendo's 2025 fiscal year that have a chance to match or exceed the sales of the remake of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. The recently-released Super Mario Party Jamboree, for example, is confirmed to be selling well, and it will be interesting to see where it stands when Nintendo releases its Q3 financial results. So too, the forthcoming Mario and Luigi: Brothership, the first entry in the Mario and Luigi series since Paper Jam in 2015, could have a strong showing when it hits the shelves on November 7.

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Released: May 23, 2024

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Developer(s): Nintendo
Franchise: Paper Mario
Platform(s): Nintendo Switch
Genre(s): RPG

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