New Super Mario Bros. Wii Tops 10 Million Sales

According to a report from Japanese publication Nikkei Net, Nintendo's New Super Mario Bros. Wii has now sold 10 million copies worldwide. The game needed only 45 days to pass the already impressive sales numbers of Super Mario Galaxy. Quoting Gamasutra: "NSMB Wii has sold 3 million units in Japan, where it launched on December 3; 3 million copies in Europe, where it launched November 20, and 4.5 million units in North America, where it launched November 15. Super Mario Galaxy has sold 4.1 million units in North America since 2007. The game's design hearkens back to the two-dimensional, side-scrolling style of earlier Mario titles ... The numbers would seem to suggest that these traits successfully generated more mass appeal for NSMB Wii than for the three-dimensional and far less familiar Super Mario Galaxy, which sent the plumber navigating more innovative spherical space environments."

Comments

The right way to rehash

[mykos]

If you're going to rehash old franchises, this game is the way to do it.

Now I hope they'll give us a high-resolution, all-new, top-down Zelda game in the caliber of Link to the Past and Link's Awakening.

Re:I have to give props to Nintendo for

[ultrafunkula]

I found that with Super Paper Mario at first, but it's worth playing through as it gets much better. The game has some clever mechanics, the puzzles are fun (although not that tricky), and the humour is very good. After Super Mario World this is my second favourite Mario game.

History behind Super Mario Bros Wii and other info

[PhiberOptix]

On the latest Iwata Asks (where the president of Nintendo interviews his staff) there's a lot of interesting info about how Miyamoto came up with the sound effect for the propeller mario, why mario wears overalls, why use a mushroom as a powerup, why turtles as opponents and other interesting info.

http://us.wii.com/iwata_asks/nsmb/vol1_page1.jsp