New Super Mario Bros. Sells 20 copies every min. in just over a month...

[LinkinPrime]

Today, Nintendo announced that its current hot handheld game, New Super Mario Bros., has sold more than half a million copies in the US since it was released on May 15. Putting that in perspective, Nintendo claims those figures translate into one copy being sold every 20 minutes since its launch. The game has consistently been in the top two on US console sales charts, and reclaimed (http://www.gamespot.com/news/6152977.html) the top spot last week.


http://www.gamespot.com/news/6153037.html

Here's hoping for some more 2D sequels of the plumbers. :pray:

[stag8603]

Here's hoping for some more 2D sequels of the plumbers. :pray:

Amen

[Roufuss]

It's a shame it's probably the worst out of all the Mario Bros games as well... I hope if they make a sequel it's true 2D like Princess Peach and not pseudo 3D.

Dammit... I really loved Princess Peach and want to see more games in THAT style, that games does everything NSMB does and does it alot better.

[coolz481]

actually, that's 20 copies every 1 minute. if it sold at the rate the thread title implies - that means it would be selling a whopping 504 copies per week!

[mtxbass1]

I still need to buy this game. Anyone want to sell theirs?

[tiredfornow]

I just wish NSMB wasn't so short, yeah getting all the coins takes a while, but I got like 80 percent of them the first time through and now I'm just booooooored with it.

[Rei no Otaku]

It's a shame it's probably the worst out of all the Mario Bros games as well... I hope if they make a sequel it's true 2D like Princess Peach and not pseudo 3D.

Dammit... I really loved Princess Peach and want to see more games in THAT style, that games does everything NSMB does and does it alot better.
Completely agree.

Another mediocre game rules the US sales charts. What a surprise...

[Snake2715]

Completely agree.

Another mediocre game rules the US sales charts. What a surprise...


Not just the US sales charts on this game... Its a quality title. Its hard to beat nostolgia. Its only fresh once you cant get that feeling back most the time. I would say 8/10 for this one.

Top 10 Japanese Console Games
From: May 29 - Jun 4, 2006


Rank Game Title Developer System Genre Units Sold Total Sold


1 New Super Mario Bros. Nintendo NDS ACT 334,208 1,233,726

2 Kahashima Ryuuta Kyouju Kanshuu: Motto Nouo
Kitaeru Otona DS Training Nintendo NDS ETC 56,470 2,423,898

3 Kahashima Ryuuta Kyouju no Nouo Kitaeru Otona
DS Training Nintendo NDS ETC 40,211 2,322,970

4 Metroid Prime: Hunters Nintendo NDS STG 32,467 32,467

5 World Soccer Winning Eleven 10 Konami PS2 SPT 31,600 726,527

6 Tetris DS Nintendo NDS PZG 29,209 574,875

7 Doubutsu no Mori DS [Animal Crossing: Wild World] Nintendo NDS ETC 28,552 2,774,649

8 Eigoga Nigatena Otona no DS Training: Eigo Zuke Nintendo NDS ETC 25,997 1,118,493

9 Jikkyou Powerful Major League Konami PS2 SPT 20,852 176,408

10 Dragon Quest & Final Fantasy in Itadaki
Street Portable Square Enix PSP TBG 15,640 63,982

[SpottedNigel]

I liked it. A lot. is it the best Mario ever? Nope. Is it still fun? Yes.

They made this game much closer to Super Mario Bros. than Super Mario World due to the amount of older gamers just now coming back to gaming because of the DS.

All that being said, I hope Yoshi's Island 2 will be much harder.

[dmaul1114]

I liked Peach, but NSMB was much better IMO.

Maybe it's just because I grew up with the orginal SMB and part nostalgia.

But as easy at NSMB is, at least I'ved died a few hundred times in it dying while trying to get coins and secret exits. I doubt I died more than 10 times in unlocking everything in Peach.

Plus I prefer the gameplay in NSMB. Nice simple start at the left, get to the goal at the right gameplay that is my favorite.

Peach got bogged down with simple puzzes and some stupid powers. Still a good game, but probaby a 7.5/10 for me, while NSMP is a 9/10.

[the3rdkey]

This game is great. You are asshats.

[rlse9]

Haha, I believe it was planetgamecube.com who pointed out that 20 per minute would be over 1 million, not half a million. It should be 10 per minute...

[Reality's Fringe]

Haha, I believe it was planetgamecube.com who pointed out that 20 per minute would be over 1 million, not half a million. It should be 10 per minute...

That's with a 24 hour shopping day. Most stores are only open 12 hours.

And I don't get the NSMB hate. It played really well, and I had a great time with it.

[botticus]

That's with a 24 hour shopping day. Most stores are only open 12 hours.

And I don't get the NSMB hate. It played really well, and I had a great time with it.
Indeed. And I don't get why the difference is a big deal. 10 per minute, 20 per minute... whatever, it's a lot. The debunk certainly wasn't worth a whole Joystiq article.

[Foolman]

The haters are weighing it against other Mario games and not against every other game that is out there right now. The game wasn't as great as the others, but it wasn't even close to bad or mediocre.

[Rei no Otaku]

The haters are weighing it against other Mario games and not against every other game that is out there right now. The game wasn't as great as the others, but it wasn't even close to bad or mediocre.
Actually the opposite for me. I'm weighing it against other games I've played, Mario or not.

I find Mario games in general to be bad to mediocre. There are exceptions of course, so don't bother running in here to throw one in my face. So as far as I was concerned NSMB was another run of the mill, boring, Mario platformer. As was mentioned in another thread, if it had been some other random character in the same game, it wouldn't have been praised nearly as much. But because it's Mario it's suddenly that much better.

[Apossum]

i am comparing it-- I was playing Yoshi's Island at the same time and NSMB just felt kinda dry compared to it....then again yoshi's island is pretty much the best platformer ever. evar.

Great game though, it deserves the sales. it's a lot of fun.

[Puffa469]

Im finding NSMB to be hard. Yes I said hard. It seems that all my precise running and jumping skills have left me over the years. Too much time spent playing sloppy controlling 3D sandbox style games. I find myself falling into the same holes over and over. And that damn lakitu! I hated him way back when and I still hate him! Argh! lol I need to get my 2D skillz back and fast! =p

[hiccupleftovers]

It's a shame it's probably the worst out of all the Mario Bros games as well... I hope if they make a sequel it's true 2D like Princess Peach and not pseudo 3D.

Dammit... I really loved Princess Peach and want to see more games in THAT style, that games does everything NSMB does and does it alot better.

I think you're out of your mind. There really is a lot of hate for NSMB going around lately. I think most people are simply jumping on the bandwagon. Best Mario game ever, no, but definitely not worst and it is extremely fun and very well made. I enjoyed it much more than Princess Peach which I beat extremely fast and which doesn't have the same enjoyable replayabilty that this game has.

[seanr1221]

I keep seeing people say how easy this game is...but do they only say it's easy because they are used to past Mario games?

I found it to be an amazing game, and my only problem is that there should have been more powerups.

[Foolman]

Actually the opposite for me. I'm weighing it against other games I've played, Mario or not.

I find Mario games in general to be bad to mediocre. There are exceptions of course, so don't bother running in here to throw one in my face. So as far as I was concerned NSMB was another run of the mill, boring, Mario platformer. As was mentioned in another thread, if it had been some other random character in the same game, it wouldn't have been praised nearly as much. But because it's Mario it's suddenly that much better.
NSMB is on the top of the charts right now. Why? There really isn't another good game out there right now. We're in the summer game drought, so I'm sure no real competition can account for some of NSMB's sales. If you didn't like other Mario games(except for those few exceptions) I don't know why you played this one. It was restated many times that it was a "return to form." If anything, having the Mario figure in it increased the hate. Once Mario is put into a game as the star, the expectations for the game skyrocket. Super Mario Sunshine was in no way a bad game, but it got tons of hate because it wasn't Super Mario 64. Hell, Super Princess Peach gets way less hate than this game, even though New Super Mario Brothers is the better of the two.

[dmaul1114]

It's the first 2D mario game in 12 years. It would be on the top of the charts regardless of the time of the year it was released.

And the great reviews across the board in the review sites and magazines don't hurt either.

Just because a handful of people on message boards are underwhelmed doesn't mean it's a great game or that it's just selling well because of the gaming drought. It just means some people don't like it.

I love it as it takes me back to when I was 10 or so and playing the original SMB to death. I love simple, 2D platformers with no puzzles etc. Some thing that's too easy and too short. That's fine. Probably just a generation gap in most cases.

[Rei no Otaku]

If you didn't like other Mario games(except for those few exceptions) I don't know why you played this one.
The same reason I like Tekken 5, yet hate all the others. I gave it a shot. I give all games a fair shot. I don't go somewhere and bash a game unless I've actually played it.

Also using sales numbers to define how good a game is is silly. Just because it's popular doesn't mean it's good. Enter the Matrix anyone? 50 Cent Bulletproof maybe?

I love it as it takes me back to when I was 10 or so and playing the original SMB to death. I love simple, 2D platformers with no puzzles etc. Some thing that's too easy and too short. That's fine. Probably just a generation gap in most cases.
Not with me. I was playing the original when I was 5.

Remember I said there were exceptions? Yoshi's Island. An excellent game. Games should evolve. Nintendo got lazy and called it "going back to their roots" and everyone ate it up. Only companies like Nintendo can get away with it too. Like if Capcom made RE5 like the pre-RE4 games they'd be bashed for it. I don't see why. They'd just be going back to their roots.

Edit: Fixed some typos, and I have a feeling there's more. Forgive any I missed. Not only is English not my first language, I'm tired^^'

[The Dord]

You also have to figure that most people that complain come to a message board to complain about it, so it isn't a real comparison on how many people hate it or not.


Personally I like this game. Little more power-ups and more characters to play would make this a 10/10 for me easily.

It is good thing that Nintendo is bringing back 2D-ish gaming. I would love to see SMB2 done this way. (I liked SMB2, in light of what others says about it)

[62t]

It's a shame it's probably the worst out of all the Mario Bros games as well... I hope if they make a sequel it's true 2D like Princess Peach and not pseudo 3D.

Dammit... I really loved Princess Peach and want to see more games in THAT style, that games does everything NSMB does and does it alot better.
i think super princess peach plays more like a wario game, like how you cant kill your enemies by stepping on them and the health bar.

As for the next 2d game, there is yoshi's island 2, but it is from the makers of artoon so i have low expectation.

[botticus]

Remember I said there were exceptions? Yoshi's Island. An excellent game. Games should evolve. Nintendo got lazy and called it "going back to their roots" and everyone ate it up. Only companies like Nintendo can get away with it too. Like if Capcom made RE5 like the pre-RE4 games they'd be bashed for it. I don't see why. They'd just be going back to their roots.

Capcom didn't get bashed for RE DS which was... a ten year old game put on a new platform. No hate there. Mario just carries with it a lot more expectation than RE.

[Foolman]

Also using sales numbers to define how good a game is is silly.


Er...I didn't. I said it's sales were great not only because it is a good game, but there wasn't very much competition at the time of release.

Game's should evolve. Nintendo got lazy and called it "going back to their roots" and everyone ate it up. Only companies like Nintendo can get away with it too. Like if Capcom made RE5 like the pre-RE4 games they'd be bashed for it. I don't see why. They'd just be going back to their roots.
RE's change was almost a complete genre change. RE was survival horror but RE4 changed it to a action horror game. Many people believed that this new style was better than all the other previous Resident Evil games. Everyone but the hardcore RE fans would be mad if RE5 turned out like pre-RE4 games. Mario's evolution was going from a 2D platformer to a 3D one. The 2D Mario games are still fun even after playing the 3D ones. So going back to Mario's roots isn't a real problem, because it is still a lot of fun. But really, I guess it is a matter of whether you like the 2D Marios or the 3D Marios.

[dmaul1114]

Remember I said there were exceptions? Yoshi's Island. An excellent game. Games should evolve. Nintendo got lazy and called it "going back to their roots" and everyone ate it up. Only companies like Nintendo can get away with it too. Like if Capcom made RE5 like the pre-RE4 games they'd be bashed for it. I don't see why. They'd just be going back to their roots.


As someone said, they ported RE1 to the DS and didn't get bashed.

Nintendo would get bashed if they made NSMB for the Wii. People expect more from the consoles. With portables it's fine to do something like NSMB that's a throw back to their roots.

Hell, a lot of DS owners I know are like me. Late 20's to early 30s, sick of the types of games on the consoles, and eating up the DS line up as it has many of the types of games we grew up playing, and a lot of new, fun pick up and play games that have rekindled our interest somewhat.

And it's not like NSMB is that much rehash of any one game in the series. It's just like they made a sequel to SMB and ignored the latter games and just threw in some new moves, an over map and some more hidden stuff. Which is what their goal was.

I love the idea and hope we see New Super Mario Bros 2, NSMB3 and NSMW in the future too, following the same idea of essentially making direct sequels to each game.

[Kyattsuai]

Yeah, I hope that "New Mario" becomes a quasi-spinoff of the franchise, not unlike Metroid Prime.

...speaking of which, when the balls are we getting a 2d-rendered-in-3d Metroid game? =^oVo^=

[Graystone]

I'm responsible for one of those copies. It just shows that we Americans want more 2D side scrolling plumbers instead of Mario playing different sports.