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New Super Mario Bros Wii Tops 10 Million Worldwide

25.01.2010

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Worldwide figures for Nintendo's 2D Mario outing on the Wii have confirmed that New Super Mario Bros. has sold over 10 million copies.

New Super Mario Bros. has been a huge hit with fans of the platforming series and new gamers alike - simple to grasp but difficult to master in the later stages. According to Kotaku, in around 2 months at retail the game has sold at least 3 million in Nintendo's major regions, including over 4.5 million in the US alone.

North America: 4.5 Million
Europe: ~3 Million
Japan: 3 Million

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Andrezao 25.01.2010#1

THis is really good news, an excellent game selling excelently well! Hope this means more 2.5-2D games Nintendo! A 2.5D kirby would be awesome, a 2.5D Zelda would be fantastic!! Not necessarily Celda, but a old style 2D Zelda sort of thing. So would a 2D Dk, 2D metroid, etc. Come on Nintendo you've done these before, make new fantastic ones of those please? Release them on wiiware even. Just advertise them just like a retail game and voila! Monies!

If they turn into retail copies, make them massive! I would kill for a full fledged 2D-2.5D Kirby game! If you don't I'll think about killing you instead, kk Nintendo? Smilie

Stulaw 25.01.2010#2

Donkey Kong Jungle Beat 2 would be good. I wonder where the Kirby game that was in development has gone Smilie .

But this is good news for Nintendo, the more Mario that sells, the more we may get aswell.

I do hope they revitalise more old franchises, not just Super Mario Bros. Surely since they're made by Nintendo, they'll sell a million no probelm, and if they have Wii in the title, even more.

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Andrezao 25.01.2010#3

Yeah, that kirby game was apparently meant to come out this yr or so wasn't it? As a rumour maybe? But Nintendo should have one or two of their studios working on these 2-2.5D titles. They already seen that there's a market for these. Have you played Trine before? Pretty good game I reckon.

Stulaw 25.01.2010#4

Nah I've never played Trine. It looks alot like lost wind gameplay wise though.

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Andrezao 25.01.2010#5

The game does resemble Lostwinds in terms of environment and interaction with it. Like, you use the mouse to aim or use magic, you swap between 3 characters, each with their own ability to overcome obstacles, it's very medieval like. But has this charm, these amazing 3D effects, lighting. Just stunning. If they used some of the effects/assets from SMG into NSMBWii, it would've been even more epic, like a 11/10 epic.

But yeah, about Trine, if you have a decent PC (doesn't need to be too powerful) get it throught Steam, pretty cool game. I think you can demo it before you buy too.

jb 25.01.2010#6

Would love a new 2D Donkey Kong game, loads of world and SMB-style co op would be immense!

Would like a smaller 2.5D Zelda too - there was a demo of an awesome side-scrolling Zelda released last year or the year before, gorgeous sprites and had a strong Zelda feel.

Or at least incorporate mechanics from older 2D games into newer 3D ones, quite like Galaxy did with the side-scrolling Mario parts

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Martin_ 26.01.2010#7

jb said:
Would love a new 2D Donkey Kong game, loads of world and SMB-style co op would be immense!
Would like a smaller 2.5D Zelda too - there was a demo of an awesome side-scrolling Zelda released last year or the year before, gorgeous sprites and had a strong Zelda feel.
Or at least incorporate mechanics from older 2D games into newer 3D ones, quite like Galaxy did with the side-scrolling Mario parts

I think the problem with that is that Zelda (in my opinion) focuses more on exploration rather than the core gameplay, whereas Mario is all about the gameplay. I can't really go back to 2D adventures. It's like I'm moving my guy around on a piece of paper. Doesn't really feel like exploration, to me.

Darkflame 26.01.2010#8

Big no to a 2D zelda from me.
Just have another 4-Swords game! Smilie

Or at least incorporate mechanics from older 2D games into newer 3D ones,

Like what?
I think just about everything has been ported from 2d to 3d already as far as Zelda goes.
Theres a few items that we havnt seen in 3d, but nothing major.

The only mechanic I can think that hasnt made it accross was the occasional 2d side-scrolling bits from the gameboy games. But I dont think they would feel right at all. Zelda is all about freedom to explore and move, after all.

( Edited 25.01.2010 19:35 by Darkflame )

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PMD 26.01.2010#9

A new 2D side-scrolling Metroid would make me very happy. As for 2D Zelda, you can always get those on the handhelds. The most recent Zelda game was in 2D.

Simes 26.01.2010#10

PMD said:
A new 2D side-scrolling Metroid would make me very happy. As for 2D Zelda, you can always get those on the handhelds. The most recent Zelda game was in 2D.

Spirit track is pseudo 3D or more 2.5D. 2D would imply everything on screen was flat.

PMD 26.01.2010#11

Even though it used polygons and had height (all Zelda titles did, even the first one), the gameplay was in 2 dimensions- left/right and up/down. It had the same fighting system (basically) as the 2D titles where you move close to the enemy and slash it rather than Z-targeting it and strafing around. The only difference is that it no longer uses grids so the screen moves with you rather than you moving within the screen.

Simes 26.01.2010#12

Well yeah in most cases that would be true. This game is using the same overhead camera perspective as Metal Gear Solid 1 and Spirit Track's cutscenes are in a full 3D perspective. There's no 2 Dimension to the engine other than the item pictures.

truthisoutthere (guest) 26.01.2010#13

The only reason why NSMB Wii has sold so much is because modified consoles with a chip couldnt play this as pirated game. The firmware upgarde also meant soft hacking the console to play the game was complicated and people decided to just by this title.

mooojc 27.01.2010#14

While this is great news for Nintendo, this just promotes the idea to release half ass games which they know will sell millions. While I have enjoyed NSMB Wii due to the multilayer, its just the same shit (with a few extras) all over again.

I agree with above comments though, instead of Mario give us something we haven't had for awhile. A 2D side scrolling DK or Zelda and etc would be much better.

jb 28.01.2010#15

Zelda shouldn't and wouldn't be entirely 2D based, but would be interesting to see sections of the game - perhaps minigames or parts of a dungeon played out in a side scrolling way, or perhaps even top down/at an angle like PH/ST.

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Swampzy (guest) 07.02.2010#16

I think that is great news. I love the original style of Mario (2d versions) and I believe they did a great job. A game I would love to see is a New Donkey Kong Country similar to NSMB.Wii. With four players as well, Can you imagine the fun that could be had in that game? All the kart levels and such. I would love that and I'm sure many people would too.

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