Gametraders Live September Magazine

On top of that, in Color Splash had Nintendo
decided to make two games in a row that
employed the same design. The previous title
- Sticker Star - actually sold the second most
in the series, so an argument could be made
that people didn’t mind the new system at all.
On the other hand Super Paper Mario sold
the most out of any title and that had taken a
completely different approach.
Those results are both great and horrible at
the same time. What in my view is the best
game in the series, Paper Mario: The Thousand
Year Door, had the highest attachment ratio of
any of entry. But the second best was actually
Color Splash and if Nintendo decides to look
at just attachment ratios, we may never see the
franchise return to what many of us want (a
more traditional Paper Mario game).
When it comes to sales it’s probably more
useful to look at physical attach ratios, which
roughly work out as follows:
Super Paper Mario – 3.7%
Paper Mario: Sticker Star – 3.3%
Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door – 10.3%
Paper Mario – 4.2%
Paper Mario: Color Splash – 6.1%
Color Splash could, however, be considered a
bit of an outlier when it comes to attachment
ratio because people were starving for a game
on a system that was woefully unsupported.
That’s purely speculation and I could be wrong,
but either way it sold less than a million at
retail, which is definitely lacklustre.