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Nintendo News | Large Shipments of Mario Bros. DS to Japan

31931 on 18.05.2006 at 12:32

Quick News - Whilst retailers had pre-ordered a massive 1.3 million units of NEW Super Mario Bros. earlier this month, Nintendo has now confirmed that for the first week on sale in Japan, it has actually shipped 800,000 units instead. The game launches on 25th May in that territory and it is expected to become the next million seller extremely quickly.

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Cheesing it up on 18.05.2006 at 13:05#1

It's still a huge amount an a massive game. This game would have sold millions even if it was crap...which it's not.

Could DS hardware sales actually increase because of this as well? It's already selling the pants off basically everything else!

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James2t3 on 18.05.2006 at 13:16#2

After the success of the Nes GBA SMB I can see Japan going nuts over this.

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jb on 18.05.2006 at 13:17#3

This game is going to definitely dominate Japan with thay many pre-orders! Wow-wee!

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ShinyRainbow on 18.05.2006 at 13:38#4

fenno2001 said:
Its still a huge amount an a massive game. This game would have sold millions even if it was crap...which its not.Could DS hardware sales actually increase because of this as well? Its already selling the pants off basically everything else!

how do you know its not crap? have you played it?

i'm not expecting much from this game, although you never know, I might really love it... but yea, it will sell big

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James2t3 on 18.05.2006 at 13:40#5

BLASPHEMY!BURN THE WITCH!!!

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tismatron on 18.05.2006 at 13:47#6

its not crap because its has and avergae score of over 90% on all games scores... IGN alons gave it 9.5/10 i think...and said it was the best 2d mario yet...

teh_gam3r on 18.05.2006 at 15:12#7

Cant wait to see how this does in the charts, but yeah surely now everyone in Japan must own a DS?

Slydevil on 18.05.2006 at 15:14#8

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Mason on 18.05.2006 at 18:07#9

tismatron said:
its not crap because its has and avergae score of over 90% on all games scores... IGN alons gave it 9.5/10 i think...and said it was the best 2d mario yet...

Yeah, but the general consensus was that Mario Sunshine was ace and I couldn't stand that. It's all down to personal opinion, I too have my doubts it'll stand up to the likes of SMB3. I'm still expecting it to be really good, but I don't think they'll recapture the old magic like they want to.