New Super Mario Bros. Wii is kind of a big deal. Not only is it the first side-scrolling Mario game to allow for 4-player simultaneous co-op, but it also marked the triumphant return of "real" 2D Mario on home console. Super Paper Mario and Wario Land: Shake It! came first, but it was New Super Mario Bros. Wii that really brought the 2D series back to in full force to televisions everywhere.
By "everywhere", I mean 15 million televisions and counting worldwide. To put that in perspective, just before he retired, Larry King Live was getting about 750,000 viewers per episode. Mario beats Larry King by over 14 million fans. No wonder the poor guy retired.
Larry King isn't the only ass that's getting kicked by New Super Mario Bros. Wii. The game is officially the seventh best selling Mario game in the series, and the fastest game to seel that many copies after just seven months after release. I wouldn't be surprised if it sells another 15 million more before the Wii's life-cycle is over, especially if Nintendo starts a Wii pack-in deal in the future.
Do you think that New Super Mario Bros. Wii is the exception to the rule, or do you think 2D platformers have once again become a big deal in the world of gaming? Do Nintendo's upcoming 2D side-scrollers, Kirby's Epic Yarn and Donkey Kong Country Returns, have a shot at making these kinds of numbers?
New Super Mario Bros. Wii Becomes Fastest Game- To Top 15m- [VGChartz]
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3:00 PM on 07.03.2010 | 
The commercial for NSMB:Wii wasn't an all out blitz on all networks, but it was motherfucking brilliant, in my opinion. Just do ads like that, and shit will sell itself.
Good times were had by all.
And I'm sure DKC Returns will sell pretty well, but again, I can't see anything like this happening. Who knows though?
Also, Kirby is adorable.
I men 15 million televisions
men 15 million
The penguin suit alone makes the game worthy of owning.
Kirby was never quite as large as DK at any point in time, it doesn't have 2 player co-op, and the graphics are unconventional while the gameplay is not the Kirby you remember.
Plus, after people start actually playing it, they'll probably come to realize it isn't as fun as they thought it looks from the E3 predictions. That's my prediction without having played it and I would Love to be wrong, but I'm betting the somewhat slow gameplay isn't going to impress anyone.
DK on the other hand gives you the biggest game on the SNES, prettier and better and people are going to remember that.
New Super Mario Bros Wii deserves the sales it is getting, by the way.
After having extensively beaten Galaxy 2 (okay, only at 241 stars) and NSMBW, I'm damn near ready to write out an explanation to every game critic explaining the ways in which it is superior to Galaxy 2- which isn't Every way, but enough for me to argue it is the better game.
And the market agrees.
I stand corrected. (And should have realized that- the last several Kirby games have.)
:)
That correction aside, I still think Donkey Kong is going to do much better in sales. I expect Kirby to be less overlooked than Wario Land: Shake It!, but it's going to have quite a niche audience.
Also, I still call the Toads in NSMB Wii Berry and Gold, Holmes. =)
Metroid Prime 3 was the best selling Prime game in Japan... at 20k sold.
OK, maybe Japan just doesn't like Metroid. Their fucking loss.
Then again, I'll also never understand why people cling to CoD, why people feel the need to cheat at video games to win, why most PS3 owners don't have mics or why the world over has probably devoted more time to reading Eragon/Twilight over quality literature. I guess the joke is just on me, eh?
LittleBigPlanet might have something to say about that statement. Sure, it's 3 million to 15, but seeing as it was a new IP which hadn't been whored out for 20 years, that's still a fairly respectable number - & a year earlier too.
I've 100%ed both games and love both... but I think I'll have to side with NSMBW for the moment- until LBP2's physics-alterability completely annihilates it. Hopefully.
Although it would be an EXTREMELY pleasant surprise if they did sell well.