New Super Mario Bros. 2 Sells 2 Million Units Worldwide - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 17 September 2012 / 8,466 Views
New Super Mario Bros. 2 (3DS) the sequel to the bestselling Nintendo DS game, New Super Mario Bros., has surpassed two million units sold worldwide at retail as of September 8. The game first launched in Japan seven weeks ago on July 28.
The majority of the sales for New Super Mario Bros. 2, 1.1 million, comes from Japan due to the game launching there three weeks before anywhere else. The game has sold 480,000 units in North America and 390,000 in Europe.
The game is currently tracking 33 percent behind New Super Mario Bros. (DS) which had sold three million units during the same number of weeks after release. Current 3DS sales are almost identical to the DS. 20.1 million for the 3DS and 20.9 million for the DS.
If the game continues to track 33 percent below New Super Mario Bros. (DS) it will sell between five million and six million units at the end of 2012.
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I think this article should be written with the disclaimer about digital sales. Mine's a digicopy, for example. Someone was reckoning that it has sold a good half million in America's alone. Maybe Nintendo will give us some numbers?
In Japan digital sales was just 5%. So it's tracking really well behind in Japan. That said in America, the numbers are quite similar to before without digital sales. I do think Japanese sales are low (almost 50% behind) which is poor and the main reason for that
In Japan digital sales was just 5%. So it's tracking really well behind in Japan. That said in America, the numbers are quite similar to before without digital sales. I do think Japanese sales are low (almost 50% behind) which is poor and the main reason for that
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you have to realize when you say just 5% you are talking about 5% of a million sales which is 50000 copies, nothing to be sneezed at.
What about digital sales?
if it continue lags behind New Super Mario Bros. DS by 33%, it will sell 19 million copies... :(
it's over nintendo is finished! Especially when you consider all the money which went into this new game engine, music and plot!
( I love nsmb2 but yeah wont have cost f-all to make)
2-3 weeks before it overtakes Ocarina of Time as the nr.3 3DS game.
Is this including digital numbers?
i dont think so. so it must actually be way higher
I'm pretty sure the digital sales are higher than Japan's. It's currently the tenth best selling eShop download LTD on the NA eShop (you can check via the eShop yourself).
Wait till Holidays!
I'll be the first to admit that it's addicting and a lot of fun to get 1,000+ coins in certain levels. Due to that the game has a LOT of replay value, which is just what Nintendo intended. The problem is that the game itself, at it's foundation, is copy and pasted from the previous two games in the series. It's just way too similiar. I'm sorry to my fellow Nintendo fans who are blindly in love with all Mario games, but I sold this one back last week. I didn't like the idea of paying $40 for New Super Mario Bros 1.3... they need to re-invent the New series, not copy and paste. Recycled music tracks is just unspeakably bad.
I bought mine digital. Everybody else I know that has 3DS and got the game, also got it digital.
