History Trivia / SuperMarioOdyssey

* KillerApp: Naturally. The game sold 2 million copies during its first weekend, and ended up selling over ''9 million copies'' in just two months. Meaning that '''over 60% of all Switch owners have the game'''.

* KillerApp: Naturally. The game sold 2 million copies during its first weekend, and ended up selling over ''9 million copies'' in just two months. Meaning that '''over 60% of all Switch own the game'''.

* KillerApp: The game became considered such a must-have item for the Switch that it sold 2 million copies just a few days after release; that's nearly a third as many Switch consoles sold up to that point.

** After Creator/{{Nintendo}}'s substantial delay of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'', at least a small group of fans were expecting this game to be delayed as well, thinking it would be released early in 2018, if not later. To their surprise, the game actually averted ScheduleSlip and came out exactly when Nintendo initially said it would.

* TheCastShowoff: Creator/KateHiggins was trained under a Jazz musician. Rather appropriate for the singing voice of Pauline, who sings the rather jazzy "Jump Up, Super Star."

** With ''VideoGame/SonicForces'', fittingly enough. Both are set to be released in the fourth quarter of the year (within a week of each other, even: ''Odyssey'' was released on October 27 worldwide, and ''Forces'' was released on November 7 in the US and November 9 overseas), and both aim to take their respective series in a bold new direction.
** Also with ''VideoGame/AHatInTime'', being another classic-styled 3D Collectathon platformer released in the same month, with its console version launching first on rival systems.

** The fact that there are realistic humans in the game that contrast heavily to the short, cartoony Mario led many to theorize that Mario wasn't human at all, just humanoid (helped by supplementary material released long before this game, apparently, claiming that Mario's race as Homo Nintendonus, not Homo Sapiens). But no, that's not the case, a post E3 2017 interview would confirm that Mario was indeed human. As a matter of fact, the inhabitants of New Donk City are never even called "human", they're "New Donkers"

** Given Creator/{{Nintendo}}'s track record of [[ScheduleSlip delaying their games]] up to that point, at least a small group of fans were expecting the game to be delayed, thinking it would be released early in 2018, if not later. To their surprise, the game actually averted ScheduleSlip and came out exactly when Nintendo initially said it would.

* CutSong: "Jump Up, Super Star" and [[spoiler:"Honeylune Ridge: Escape"]] both have 8-bit variants, but New Donk City's 2D section just uses the regular version of the former, and the latter doesn't play until ''after'' the 2D section of its corresponding level. Both of them can be listened to in the music player after completing certain missions in the postgame. In addition, once the 8-bit version of "Jump Up, Super Star" is unlocked, the man in City Hall who lets you replay the festival stage will provide you the option of using the 8-bit version instead if you want.

* This is the first mainline ''Super Mario'' game in years since ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine'' to feature actual voice acted dialogue, although in most cases it's gibberish with hints of the character's names thrown in, almost as if it's another language and they are reserved for cutscenes. Mario and Peach are arguably the only ones with noticeable actual words besides Pauline and the announcer in the New Donk City festival event.

* SimilarlyNamedWorks: There was a fangame titled ''Super Mario Odyssey'' long before the official game was even announced. And to an extent, the Genesis bootleg "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xijiQ26vKME Mario 4: a Space Odyssey]]" [[note]]which may just be taken from [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey the movie]][[/note]].

** There were many people who theorized that a spirit was possessing Mario's hat, instead of it being a creature that just looks like Mario's hat or something similar.

** Sorry, Mario, you're not going to find any trace of the [[spoiler: [[Franchise/SailorMoon Silver Millennium]]]] on the [[spoiler: Moon]] Kingdom.

** Sorry, Mario, you're not going to find any trace of the [[Franchise/SailorMoon Silver Millennium]] on the Moon Kingdom.

* NamesTheSame: Sorry, Mario, you're not going to find any trace of the [[Franchise/SailorMoon Silver Millennium]] on the Moon Kingdom.

** Many people saw a kingdom based on Japan coming. There was plenty of promotional artwork of Mario in traditional Japanese outfits for the game to draw from, and where else would they be found but a Japan analog? [[spoiler:It being ''Bowser's'' Kingdom, however, took everyone by surprise.]]

* NamesTheSame: There's also a character named Talkatoo in ''Series/ZoobileeZoo''.

* CutSong: "Jump Up, Super Star" and [[spoiler:"Honeylune Ridge: Escape"]] both have 8-bit variants, but New Donk City's 2D section just uses the regular version of the former, and the latter doesn't play until ''after'' the 2D section of its corresponding level. Both of them can be listened to in the music player after completing certain missions in the postgame.

* CutSong: "Jump Up, Super Star" and "Honeylune Ridge: Escape" both have 8-bit variants, but New Donk City's 2D section just uses the regular version of the former, and the latter doesn't play until ''after'' the 2D section of its corresponding level. Both of them can be listened to in the music player after completing certain missions in the postgame.

* KillerApp: The game became considered such a must-have item for the Switch that it sold 2 million copies just a few days after release; that's nearly a third as many Switch consoles sold up to that point..

* KillerApp: The game became considered such a must-have item for the Switch that it sold 2 million copies just a few days after release; that's nearly a third as many Switch consoles sold up to that point.
* NamesTheSame: This isn't the first Nintendo franchise to feature a character named [[Franchise/{{Kirby}} Cappy]].
** The lanky bouncer of the Broodals is named WesternAnimation/{{Rango}}.

* ActorAllusion: Creator/NobuyukiHiyama voices Topper. The last rabbit-like character that Hiyama voiced was [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Link]] by way of the Bunny Hood.