The end may be nigh for Mario & Luigi RPG series developer AlphaDream. After developing titles like Superstar Saga, Bowser's Inside Story, Dream Team, and other Mario & Luigi RPG titles, the studio has filed for bankruptcy. According to a Japanese article via Yahoo! Japan, the filing was due to the company having an unpayable debt of 465 million yen, or $4.3 million USD. Despite cult status of the original Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga entry, further entries only began to slow down, in terms of sales, with industry insiders reportedly claiming that the latest game, a Nintendo 3DS remake of Bowser's Inside Story had sold so poorly, that it had caused Nintendo to halt further plans to develop titles on the aging platform.

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[AmandaRose]

UPDATE: They're developing a new Nintendo Switch game but the company itself is done.

https://twitter.com/JackControllers/status/1179468245339971584?s=19

It clearly says they were assisting another company not that they were developing their own game.

 

[Essasetic]

It clearly says they were assisting another company not that they were developing their own game.
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Ah I should've worded it better. I didn't say they were developing their own game I meant it like their team was developing/assisting with a game.

 

[TheSpearGuy]

Is Ubisoft now the only one who can make a proper Mario RPG ?
(Don´t hate nintendo for making colour splash I love this game)

 

[skinnyBIGGS]

They,ll be hired in no time its not the developers fault marketing should be to blame.. there GBA title was the best game it was such a different take on mario and i loved it.. hope to see there next one hit nintendo switch.. that debt is easily payable by another company ...

 

[DANTENDO]

. that debt is easily payable by another company ...

It's 4 million dollars not 4 thousand dollars

 

[Agusto101]

Goodbye m&l saga...it was so good for the world...you may rest in peace...bowser inside story was the best and nobody can deny it wheter they like rpgs or not...

 

[skinnyBIGGS]

It's 4 million dollars not 4 thousand dollars

So whats ur point you do know game companies make roughly 200mill easy so its chump change to aquire a company like that if anythig thete could be huge profits if the bigger guys step in abd purchase and market properly

 

[Alkéryn]

Super saga was my childhood

 

[Deleted User]

Mario and Luigi: Partner's in Time was my jam as a kid... Ah well, it's not like I was going to play anything new by AlphaDream anyways, but alas... a little sad

 

[raxadian]

Mario and Luigi: Partner's in Time was my jam as a kid... Ah well, it's not like I was going to play anything new by AlphaDream anyways, but alas... a little sad

You really should play Super Star Saga and Bowser Inside Story, they are quite good.

 

[Deleted User]

You really should play Super Star Saga and Bowser Inside Story, they are quite good.

Ah really! I will check those out, thank you

 

[xdarkmario]

im personally upset about this, i love the M&L series. im also wondering why nintendo hasn't done anything about helping them, alpha is pretty much like a second party company by now.

 

[Essasetic]

UPDATE 2:
Nintendo now owns the Mario & Luigi series due to AlphaDream's bankruptcy.

https://twitter.com/JackControllers/status/1179410662881148928?s=19

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Oh and I was wrong on the last update. AlphaDream is completely done. They're not working/assisting on anything. Development has seized entirely.

https://twitter.com/Doctor_Cupcakes/status/1179467153906511873?s=19

 

[raxadian]

UPDATE 2:
Nintendo now owns the Mario & Luigi series due to AlphaDream's bankruptcy.

https://twitter.com/JackControllers/status/1179410662881148928?s=19

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Oh and I was wrong on the last update. AlphaDream is completely done. They're not working/assisting on anything. Development has seized entirely.

https://twitter.com/Doctor_Cupcakes/status/1179467153906511873?s=19

That makes sence since it was done using Nintendo characters anyway.

I hope this doesn't screw over the future Switch game.

 

[JavaScribe]

piracy only accounts for what, less than 1% of sales if that.

Well, technically, piracy will always account for 00.00% of sales.
Unless people are paying the publishers for those pirated copies, somehow.

 

[raxadian]

Remakes do sell less the newer the original game is. A GBA game cannot be played on a 3DS (Unless you have an Ambassador 3DS and even then is just a few games and without cable link functionality).

Super Star was a GBA game so it couldn't be played on the 3DS. and the Captain Goomba sidestory was good enough to consider buying the remake if you already had it.

Bowser Inside Story was a DS game so it is perfectly playable on a 3DS. Also being a DS game is (almost) region free.

Not to mention you can already play as the Mario Bros and fan favourite villain Bowser on the DS version. Bowser Junior just isn't popular enough to (re) sell the game on his own. And people wanted Captain Goomba to return.

 

[HideoKojima]

Let's start a go fund me for the employees