GameSpew: Princess Peach: Showtime! gives Mario's princess her time to shine, and while this outing is good fun, it's also rather shallow.
WTMG's Oliver Shellding: "I absolutely love this for Peach. She’s a fantastic character, and her personality really shined in Super Mario Odyssey, The Super Mario Bros Movie and here, now, with Princess Peach: Showtime! This is such a trip of a title where it feels like the player is doing absolutely everything under the sun. You get to have that passion for every incarnation for just a short time, then move on to something different. Being able to sample so many interactions and scenarios keeps the game fresh from start to finish, allowing players to revel and replay the plays they enjoy and just quickly bust through the ones they don’t. There’s charm, there’s cuteness, there’s a generous difficulty curve and there’s a plot that passes the Bechdel test. This is the right step forward for Peach into the spotlight, and I hope Showtime! is the first of many more adventures to come."
"Princess Peach: Showtime! is a casual romp that explores a range of mechanics in a short, but perfectly crafted, slice of Nintendo."
- Stuart Cullen, TechStomper
In terms of game software sales, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth ranks first with 310,596 copies, followed by Princess Peach Showtime! was in second place with 104,820 units, and Rise of the Ronin was in third place with 84,785 units.
In addition, Dragon's Dogma 2 and Unicorn Overlord also made it into the ranking, making the top 5 monthly software titles all new titles for the first time in 2 years and 5 months.
It also beat Dragon's Dogma 2 in the first two weeks of their release in Europe: https://www.gamesindustry.b...
And that was multiplatform too.
Considering it's not even a next gen game! According to Obscure Observer, it's not next gen if it's not UE5
What’s the total I want to know? Like it could be slow sales for that month. I’m hoping it’s total is better than FF16.
Rebirth sold 310,596 copies. Other notable games that came out in that period: Princess Peach Showtime! (104,820 copies), Rise of the Ronin (84,785 copies), Dragon's Dogma 2 (PS5 version) (77,764 copies) and Unicorn Overlord (Switch version) (61,954 copies). Of course these are physical copies only, which is always the case with Famitsu sales.
Sorry I meant subtotal globally. I’m hoping it did more than 3 mill. I want this to be a success so Square doesn’t say, “Well, we spent all this money to make an amazing game and nobody bought it, so we won’t do that again.”
Yeah it looks like it did well worldwide, at least the charts that I've seen (Europe, UK, US). And also the PlayStation Store download charts. But they haven't announced any hard numbers yet.
@ shinoff: the double pack was digital only right? So no, it isn't included in those numbers.
Hoping FFXVI sold less is kinda pathetic. They already disbanded the FFXVI team to other projects and Square are working on the Rebirth follow up. Just celebrate Rebirth.
XVI has a 2023 total of 429k. Keep seething till Rebirth gets there.
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Simmer down, bud. It’s ok to not like FF16 and hope an entry you liked did better. We’re in a comment section discussing sales for Rebirth. If these kind of comments trigger you, you’re more than welcome to ignore them.
It is. No one is taking into account that the double pack was eating up sales also. So you gotta combine those. I seen a reddit thread yesterday were dude broke it all down. Rebirthbis killing it despite what some would have you believe.
Some dude on reddit...100% confirmed. 🙃
Right now in Japan Rebirth hasn't sold more than XVI and also sold worse on launch. Because we are talking about Japanese sales here...
@Nyxus
I know. I am just comenting on the famitsu numbers. Which are fact. Not speculating on numbers we don't know and state Rebirth sold more FFXVI.
I don't care if it does as i like both and even prefer Rebirth but when the FXVI trolls come out on every Rebirth article i like to give them some facts.
According to Ampere, which tracks MAU, it had a daily peak user count of 2.21 million. So it's probably over 3 million by this point
It will easily beat FF 16. As FF16 didn't continue to sell as strong after the initial week.
Rise of the Ronin, Rebirth and Unicorn Overlord are all fantastic games that I would recommend to anyone one.
Don't listen to the BS about Ronin it's fantastic.
