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Nintendo's Mario Wii ~Million 1st Week
on 07.12.2009 at 11:01
Posted by Adam Riley (jesusraz) 
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New Super Mario Bros, Wii, Famitsu, Japan
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Update - Famitsu has revealed that Nintendo has had a massive success with its latest Wii release, New Super Mario Bros. Wii. It was revealed last week that on its first day the game sold 420,000 units, which in itself was mightily impressive. However, the full week's total has been confirmed as being 936,734 copies sold. This covers the sales period of 3rd-6th December and makes the new 2D Mario title the fastest selling Wii game in Japan, ahead of nearest contenders Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Monster Hunter 3.
In comparison, New Super Mario Bros. for the DS sold 865,024 in its first week, according to Famitsu data, whilst Super Mario Galaxy for Wii sold 256,431 units in its first week (last seen at a total of 964,414 units, but should have passed a million by now).
Do not forget to check out Cubed3's review of New Super Mario Bros. Wii here.
Original Story - Now that the latest weekly Media Create software and hardware sales have been released, it is time to check out the First Day Sales in Japan. This week sees some very big releases across all formats, with New Super Mario Bros. landing on Wii, Phantasy Star Portable 2 hitting PSP, Bandai Namco's Monster Hunter style title Kaiju Busters for DS and Assassin's Creed II for PS3 and Xbox 360. The clear winner from the first day of release is Nintendo's new 2D Mario platform adventure, which has already sold 420,000 units. This compares very well to the DS version, which sold 422,000 on its first day and has flown past the 5.5 million mark now. After four days alone, sales were up to around 900,000 units, so it will be interesting to see whether this Wii version can indeed follow that trend of more than doubling its sales over the rest of the tracking period.
Check out all the first day sales below, including Konami's dating game Tokimeki Memorial 4 and baseball title Power Pro Pocket 12, as well as Koei's big-name Wii release and Sting's latest DS RPG, Yggdra Unison:
- New Super Mario Bros. Wii (wii, Nintendo) - 420,000
- Phantasy Star Portable 2 (PSP, SEGA) - 202,000
- Kidou Senshi Gundam: Gundam vs. Gundam NEXT PLUS (PSP, Bandai Namco) - 170,000
- Sengoku Musou 3 (Wii, Tecmo Koei) - 81,000
- Tokimeki Memorial 4 (NDS, Konami) - 28,000
- Assassin's Creed II (PS3, Ubisoft) - 28,000
- Power Pro Pocket 12 (NDS, Konami) - 23,000
- Assassin's Creed II (Xbox 360, Ubisoft) - 21,000
- Kaiju Busters (NDS, Bandai Namco) - 10,000
- Yggdra Unison (NDS, Sting/Atlus) - 4,700
- LittleBigPlanet (PSP, Sony) - 2,200
If a Press Release is not given early next week to celebrate the strong New Super Mario Bros. sales, then expect the full weekly data towards the end of that week.
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Just bought a DS Lite (black/red) on Ebay
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Great Alphaville reference. 
There's room on the boat
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Mario is back bitches. How does it compare to Super Mario Galaxy\'s release performance?
( Edited 04.12.2009 16:41 by Modplan Man )
( Edited 04.12.2009 16:41 by Modplan Man )
Listed all games I want... and the total is $2092.60. Anyone need a kidney?
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So, New Super Mario Bros Wii could do over 1 million before the end of the year in Japan? I guess it will sell more than Super Mario Galaxy before the end of January 2010, huh?
Enjoy the latest previews!
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Modplan Man said:
Mario is back bitches. How does it compare to Super Mario Galaxy's release performance?
Mario is back bitches. How does it compare to Super Mario Galaxy's release performance?
SMG also doubled its first week sales, but the game has not been confirmed as being a million seller yet. It should be there by now, but we'll have to wait until the Top 500 for 2009 is released (sometime mid-way through next year
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As it says "Only in Japan"... So, we can add the sales of America and Europe (very good sales too). Just as always... the classics never dies...
on 05.12.2009 at 15:19
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put super mario bros on the enternat for we can play the game from the ds to the computer
on 05.12.2009 at 15:29
11 days left!
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Nice, it deserves that praise!
rayman
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Makes me a little worried that galaxy shifted less then 300,000 yet this has already bested galaxy sales (almost) Both probably amazing game (havent play played NSMB) but Im a strong believer in positive reinforcement. And for nintendo and third parties the positive feedback is (not sure how to put it without sounding negative) simple stripped back games sell like no ones business.
Have no problem with playing all game types but would prefer if big 3D worlds offering loads to discover regardless of genre be it platformer or FPS sold more then a game like resort or NSMB. Because its clearly setting a strong statement of what wii consumers want. And its not meshing with what I want from the console. So far in my opinion its not be proven that there are enough of each consumer type to get a large enough diversity of games.
Have no problem with playing all game types but would prefer if big 3D worlds offering loads to discover regardless of genre be it platformer or FPS sold more then a game like resort or NSMB. Because its clearly setting a strong statement of what wii consumers want. And its not meshing with what I want from the console. So far in my opinion its not be proven that there are enough of each consumer type to get a large enough diversity of games.
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meeto_0 said:
Makes me a little worried that galaxy shifted less then 300,000 yet this has already bested galaxy sales (almost) Both probably amazing game (havent play played NSMB) but Im a strong believer in positive reinforcement. And for nintendo and third parties the positive feedback is (not sure how to put it without sounding negative) simple stripped back games sell like no ones business.
Have no problem with playing all game types but would prefer if big 3D worlds offering loads to discover regardless of genre be it platformer or FPS sold more then a game like resort or NSMB. Because its clearly setting a strong statement of what wii consumers want. And its not meshing with what I want from the console. So far in my opinion its not be proven that there are enough of each consumer type to get a large enough diversity of games.
Makes me a little worried that galaxy shifted less then 300,000 yet this has already bested galaxy sales (almost) Both probably amazing game (havent play played NSMB) but Im a strong believer in positive reinforcement. And for nintendo and third parties the positive feedback is (not sure how to put it without sounding negative) simple stripped back games sell like no ones business.
Have no problem with playing all game types but would prefer if big 3D worlds offering loads to discover regardless of genre be it platformer or FPS sold more then a game like resort or NSMB. Because its clearly setting a strong statement of what wii consumers want. And its not meshing with what I want from the console. So far in my opinion its not be proven that there are enough of each consumer type to get a large enough diversity of games.
I wouldn't be too worried. It has nothing to do with some kind of conflict of simple stripped back games vs large content games. 2D Mario has always done better than 3D Mario, especially in Japan. Whether a game is 2D or 3D does not automatically mean its stripped back.
Super Mario Bros 3 has only been beaten by NSMB DS in sales (18 million to 19 million).
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