A remake of Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door is has been available to play exclusively on the Nintendo Switch for a few days now. You may recall that the game had been officially announced last September. However, we now have an idea in regards to how long the game has been ready for launch.
You see, it has been discovered that the game was classified by the USK, a German rating organization, before the game had been announced last fall. In fact, the game was classified in June of 2023. This suggests that Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door had been ready to be released as early as last summer. You can see a tweet relaying the news down below.
I guess they wanted to delay it, maybe it actually wasn’t ready? Either way Nintendo does what Nintendo does regardless if it makes sense or not.
I just want them to hurry up and make the next Mario Party. With DLC maps, characters, and games, they need to make the next one similar to a Smash Ultimate, but for Mario Party. I know they can’t reinvent mini games forever, they can still easily bring back many other options. But I actually enjoy super Mario party with the joycons, yes it’s a terrible controller and terrible stick but the simplicity and the motion controls sell the entire thing.
On TTYD of course it’s one of the best games ever made, remake should be well received, I haven’t done a play through since the 2000s, great time to get a new generation into a timeless classic.
But hurry the hell up with Mario Party!! MUST be saving it for the new console!
Nintendo have done this kind of thing with several games over the past couple of years. Fire Emblem Engage is the one that springs to my mind but I know there were others. I think it’s a case of them essentially having some finished games ready to go to fill holes in their schedule – and with holes in their schedule now being plentiful given that their software development is currently focussed on Switch 2.
This is always fascinating to me. Nintendo has such a healthy production schedule for their games, they just have completed titles ready to go whenever. Fire Emblem Engage, Pikmin 1 + 2, Metroid Prime Remastered, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. They even released Xenoblade Chronicles 3 /early./
They really are the best in the business at game releases. Such a perfect lineup in-between their heavy hitters. Nintendo fans have been eating good all generation with the Switch. ♡
How is Paper Mario a Thousand year door, Is it to your likings or do you want more?
They wrote a review… just go read that.
Don’t know why this is newsworthy. The same happened with Metroid Prime Remastered… and I don’t really get why people somehow paint this in a negative light?
Yeah, it sucks to not get the game immediately while Nintendo sits on it… but the fact that they’re in this position where they have completed games just ready to go is a GOOD thing! It means that should their release schedule dry up, they can easily fill it with one of these titles.
Would you rather have the opposite scenario? They just release everything when completed, potentially over-saturating the market at times and then having complete dry spells other times? We’ve had that situation… it was the Wii U’s and 3DS’s launch windows. Hell, you could also say it was the same situation with the Wii, GameCube, and Nintendo 64. This is them buying themselves additional time to ready themselves for the inevitable Switch 2 launch… and THOSE games (3D Mario, Mario Kart, etc.) need all the time in the world to be perfect.
We have plenty of Switch games, we have a consistent release schedule of first party games thanks to this strategy… and yet people STILL whine! What a privileged time we live in…