However, people who had purchased and pre-loaded Paper Mario: Color Splash discovered they could immediately begin playing the game.
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Multiple Wii U owners took to Twitter to show off different screens from the game as soon as the game became available late last night and early this morning.
Video game stories from other sites on the web. This problem has since been fixed by Nintendo and can no longer be exploited. Polygon has reached out to Nintendo for comment about the leak.
Paper Mario: Color Splash didn’t make the best first impression with fans when it was unveiled over the summer. Speaking with Kotaku earlier this year, a producer on the game revealed that Paper Mario Color Splash was completely finished back in June.
If you just can’t wait for Nintendo’s big holiday Wii U game release, you don’t have to.
Without nearly any other Wii U games releasing in the remainder of 2016, it was likely a savvy business move on Nintendo’s part to hold the game back for several months so that a new, first party Wii U game was available towards the start of the busy holiday season. Hopefully that tone shifts to one of pleasant surprise for Nintendo’s (apparently final) major Wii U release.
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On September 22, 2016, Nintendo offered a Paper Mario: Color Splash pre-load on the Nintendo Wii U eShop. Its RPG elements appear to have been substantially stripped down from the first few games in the series, with players negatively comparing it to the 3DS entry, Paper Mario: Sticker Star. If you’re still hoping to get the game, don’t worry; Paper Mario: Color Splash will be out for everyone else on October 7.
