If you’re playing with four people in one room, one camera is enough to capture all of them. Some mini-games also feature motion controls that require waving your entire body around, in case you thought the Kinect era was dead.

Other notable additions in the Switch 2 version include 20 new mini-games and new rules. Frenzy Rules shave a single game’s duration down to five turns, and everyone starts with double dice. There are also new 2v2 tag battles that utilize Friendship Dice, allowing players to call allies over and add their roll to their movement.

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As with previous entries, Super Mario Party Jamboree offers numerous playable characters and boards to play on (four available, three to unlock). Up to four players can compete to complete mini-games, earn Coins and Stars, and ultimately win. Jamboree mixes things up by adding Jamboree Buddies, who possess unique abilities to turn the tides.

It also features Pro Rules for the more competitive-minded and Party Planner Trek, a single-player mode where you play mini-games for NPCs and unlock subsequent areas. Outside of its sales, the critical response to Super Mario Party Jamboree has been exceptional, becoming the franchise’s best-rated.

Meanwhile, Metaphor: ReFantazio, which topped charts last week, has dropped to cumulative sales of over 16,000 units for the week across PS5 and PS4, while Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO drops down to over 12,000 units sold, and Konami and Bloober Team’s Silent Hill 2 remake to just a little over 4,000 units.

In terms of hardware sales, the Nintendo Switch continues to lead the way, emerging as the bestselling console in Japan for the week with over 58,000 units sold. PS5, meanwhile, managed over 11,000 units, trailing behind in second place.

You can check out the full hardware and physical software sales charts for Japan for the week ending October 20 below.

Software sales (followed by lifetime sales):

1. [NSW] Super Mario Party Jamboree – 227,569 (New)
2. [PS5] Professional Baseball Spirits 2024-2025 – 69,078 (New)
3. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom – 13,273 (281,312)
4. [PS5] Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO – 12,928 (76,850)
5. [PS5] Metaphor: ReFantazio – 12,492 (95,319)
6. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 7,605 (6,033,177)
7. [NSW] Minecraft – 5,408 (3,657,912)
8. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 4,665 (7,935,333)
9. [PS4] Metaphor: ReFantazio – 4,610 (29,995)
10. [PS5] Silent Hill 2 – 4,287 (33,661)

Hardware sales (followed by last week’s sales):

• Nintendo Switch – 58,853 (55,082)
• PS5 – 11,315 (11,804)
• Xbox Series X/S – 4,438 (425)

That’s as per GamesIndustry’s Christopher Dring, who shared on Twitter that Super Mario Party Jamboree – which debuted on top of the latest weekly UK retail charts – has enjoyed 35 percent higher physical sales in the UK at launch than the previous title in the series, Mario Party Superstars, managed upon its release in 2021. 

That’s an impressive start for the game by any metric, especially when considering the fact that this is the Mario Party franchise’s third outing on the Switch, not to mention the Switch itself being in the eighth year of its lifecycle. What that means for how well we can expect Jamboree to sell over the course of the coming months should be interesting to witness. 

OVER 110 MINIGAMES

Nintendo is looking to one-up itself with its offerings of minigames in Super Mario Party Jamboree. To be specific, the party title is set to feature a total of 112 minigames, which is the most we will have ever seen in the series’ history so far. The roster will feature a variety of different minigame types, including 4-player, 1v3, 2v2, showdown minigames, duel minigames, and more. Super Mario Party’ rhythm minigmes will return, as will boss battle minigames from 3DS’ Mario Party: Star Rush.

8-PLAYER MINIGAMES

Super Mario Party Jamboree is also introducing a new minigame type that will see eight players competing against each other. So far, at least ten 8-player minigames have been confirmed, and it seems they will cast a wide net in what they will task players with. There’s one that challenges players to work together by gathering apples and squeezing juice out of them, while another sees you having to solve puzzles together by placing jigsaw pieces. One challenges you to walk on skis in tandem in order to defeat Wiggler in a race, while another tasks you with cleaning Chain Chomps by spraying them with water.

SEVEN BOARDS

True to Jamboree’s insistence on going above and beyond in the content that it will deliver, the game is also confirmed to feature seven boards, which is the most we’ll have seen in any Mario Party game on the Switch. Right off the bat, players will have four boards accessible, with three more being unlockable. Of those three, two will be familiar boards returning from past titles, in the form of Mario’s Rainbow Castle from the original Mario Party, and Western Land from Mario Party 2.

NEW BOARDS

A couple of boards in Super Mario Party Jamboree will be familiar ones, but the major of them are going to be entirely new. Of the five new boards, four will be unlocked right from the off. These will be Mega Wiggler’s Tree Party, which will be set in a tree orchard; Roll ’em Raceway, which is set on a racecourse in a lush environment; Goomba Lagoon, a tropical island with a shipwreck and a volcano; and Rainbow Galleria, which is set in a multi-storey shopping mall. The fifth new board, King Bowser’s Keep, is an unlockable one, and takes players to a giant, lava-filled castle.

22 CHARACTERS

Here’s another area where the upcoming game is looking to scale new heights for the series. Super Mario Party Jamboree is confirmed to feature as many as 22 playable characters, which is going to be the largest roster of characters in a Mario Party game to date. Every characters from Mario Party Superstars is returning, as are a handful that we haven’t seen in a Mario Party title in a few years, like Spike, who is appearing for the first time since Wii U’s Mario Party 10 nearly a decade ago.

NEW CHARACTERS

There will obviously be plenty of familiar and returning characters to play as, but Super Mario Party Jamboree is also adorning its roster with a few characters who are going to be playable in a Mario Party game for the first time ever. Specifically, there’s two new playable characters confirmed for the game in the form of Pauline, the Mayor of New Donk City, and fan-favourite weirdo Ninji.

NEW ITEMS

Jamboree will let players use a total of 37 different items, which is once again a record high for the series, and in that list, a good number of them are going to be entirely new additions. That includes the likes of a warp pipe that can move you to a random spot on the board, a mushroom ticket that can be exchanged for mushrooms, a warp box to directly transport players to a shop, items that are tied specific elements in specific boards, and more.

JAMBOREE BUDDIES

Allies in Super Mario Party Jamboree will take on a slightly different form, appearing this time as Jamboree Buddies. Of the 22 playable characters in the game, 10 will also appear randomly on boards as Jamboree Buddies. Get to them, and you can initiate a showdown minigame, which, if won, recruits that character to your party, with each Jamboree Buddy coming with unique abilities to give you different kinds of boosts and advantages, from Yoshi being able to copy items held by opponents that you pass, to Peach letting you purchase items from item shops at half cost, to Luigi giving you better odds of rolling higher numbers when you roll a die, and more.

PRO RULES

If you’re looking for a more competitive edge from Super Mario Party Jamboree, the game will let you turn on Pro Rules, which will change a number of in-game rules to suit your needs. Some of the changed rules will include turn counts being capped at 12. players being able to choose an item to start a board with (from a limited selection), item shops having limited stock, hidden blocks no longer appearing, specific blocks having new and changed rules, and more.

SINGLE-PLAYER MODE

Multiplayer is and obviously always will be the best and primary way of playing any Mario Party game, but those who wish to try out its offerings solo will have the chance to do so with Party-Planner Trek, Super Mario Party Jamboree’s single-player mode. This mode will let you lay minigames across the game’s five new boards by yourself, with rewards for completing quests and minigames being Mini Stars and decorations to be placed in the Party Plaza.

KOOPATHLON MODE

Super Mario Party Jamboree is also set to introduce a large-scale multiplayer mode in the form of Koopathlon. On paper, it’s similar to Mario Party: Star Rush’s Coinathlon mode, with the key difference being that it is for up to 20 players competing against each other. That, of course, will also mean entirely new minigames designed for a larger pool of players, with each minigame seeing players trying to survive amidst Fall Guys-style chaos.

BOWSER KABOOM SQUAD

Another new mode in Super Mario Party Jamboree is Bowser Kaboom Squad, which is a co-op experience. Eight players are tasked with working together to defeat Imposter Bowser across a total of five rounds, with one single game in the mode entailing minigames, throwing bombs at Bowser, and more.

OTHER MODES

The likes of the main party mode, the single-player Party-Planner Trek mode, the chaotic Koopathlon, and the co-op Bowser Kaboom Squad are set to be Jamboree’s star attractions, but there will be plenty other modes to dive into as well. Paratroopa Flight School will task two players with working together by using motion controls to in a flight minigame, while Rhythm Kitchen will be a four-player co-op cooking rhythm minigame, and Toad’s Factory will put you through thirty increasingly difficult levels in another four-player co-op affair.

FILE SIZE

As per the Switch eShop, Super Mario Party Jamboree is set to have a file size of 5.3 GB, which is pretty standard for the Nintendo Switch (and practically nonexistent compared to what we see from most games releasing on any other platform these days). In comparison, both previous Switch Mario Party titles had lower storage requirements with Super Mario Party and Mario Party Superstars both weighing 2.9 GB each.

Reviews for the party title started going live earlier today, and the critical consensus seems to be quite positive, with an aggregate Metacritic score of 82 for the title (based on 58 reviews, at the time of writing). That, incidentally, makes it the best-reviewed Mario Party game to date, surpassing the series’ previous outing, Mario Party Superstars, which has a Metacritic rating of 80.

In comparison, the first of the three Mario Party titles to release for the Switch, which is Super Mario party, has a Metacritic score of 76.

Super Mario Party Jamboree launches for Nintendo Switch on October 17.

Nintendo has confirmed that Pauline will be a playable character in the upcoming Super Mario Party Jamboree. She’ll also be joined by the star-shaped Ninji, an enemy that first appeared in Super Mario Bros. 2.

That means Jamboree’s roster of playable characters currently stands at 22 characters strong, with several returning mainstays also set to return, including the likes of Mario, Luigi, Peach, Toad, Bowser, Wario, Waluigi, Goomba, Koopa Troopa, Birdo, Shy Guy, Boo, and many others. 

Super Mario Party Jamboree will launch for the Nintendo Switch on October 17. It will require 6.5 GB of free storage space.

Unsurprisingly, the game has been handed an E rating, with some details on its vast array of minigames revealed in a summary. It reads, “This is a collection of mini-games (party games) in which players compete to earn stars, coins, and rankings. As players engage in different modes (e.g., board game, rhythm games, puzzle-based games, flying games, mini-games), they encounter or participate in whimsical instances of fantasy violence: cartoony cannons/cannon turrets that shoot at giant characters; avoiding a robot with giant boxing gloves/fists; using over-sized hammers against each other; connecting electric circuits to zap a boss character. Damage is indicated by blinking, comical yelps, and/or dizzy star effects.”

Super Mario Party Jamboree will feature over 110 minigames across seven boards, of which five will be entirely new, with the other two being remakes of Mario Party 1 and 2 minigames. The game will also feature a new 20-player online mode dubbed Koopathlon.

Super Mario Party Jamboree is due out October 17 for the Switch. It will require about 6.5 GB of storage space.

Now, the game’s Switch eShop page has also gone up, which means not only is it available for digital pre-orders, details have also emerged on its file size. As per its official listing, Super Mario Party Jamboree will require 6.5 GB of free storage. That’s not a lot, even by Switch standards, though interestingly enough, it’s more than twice the size of the other Mario Party titles on the console, with Super Mario Party and Mario Party Superstars both weighing 2.9 GB apiece.

Super Mario Party Jamboree will launch exclusively for the Nintendo Switch later this year, on October 17.

At the recent Nintendo Direct presentation, Nintendo unveiled Super Mario Party Jamboree, which is described as the biggest Mario Party game to date. The game will feature 20-player multiplayer in the Koopathlon mode, and, as you might imagine, some completely new boards and minigames to enjoy. There will, of course, also be returning boards to enjoy.

In total, the game will feature over 110 minigames and seven boards, of which five will be entirely new. Check out the game’s announcement trailer below for a glimpse of the new improvements and additions it’s set to bring.

Super Mario Party Jamboree is due out exclusively for the Nintendo Switch not long from now. It will release for the console on October 17.