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Free Super Mario Party Update Gives Massive Boost To Online Play

A star effort.

Super Mario Party has been quite a hit on Nintendo Switch, even if we may not think of it in those terms. Nintendo’s most recent figures put it at 7th in the system’s best-selling games having shifted nearly 14 million copies, showing the appetite for multiplayer fun on the little system.

It’s a strong entry in the series, though perhaps predictably its online play was underwhelming at best, limiting you to a small range of minigames to play with friends or strangers; it was a rather throwaway mode. Somewhat out of the blue, Nintendo has confirmed (on its Japanese website, hat-tip to Reset-Era) and now released a big free update to significantly boost online play.

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