New Super Mario Bros. Sells 6 Million in Japan, Breaks Records

by VGChartz Staff, posted on 28 December 2010 / 3,015 Views

New Super Mario Bros. (the DS one, not the 4-million-sold-in-Japan Wii version) has just broken the 6 million units sold mark in Japan, making the four-and-a-half-year-old DS game the country's best-selling DS title, according to Japanese media tracking firm Enterbrain (Famitsu's parent company).

Further, NSMB has recently passed Nintendogs and become the highest-selling DS game of all time worldwide, with sales topping 24 million units.  If anyone needed proof that 2D gaming isn't dead, this is it.  Maybe the 142 million DS systems in the world helped his cause.

Oh Mario... 25 years old and still toppin' sales charts all over the place.  What a guy.


12 Comments

FasH
FasH (on 30 December 2010)

A monster in sales!! http://graphmag.wordpress.com

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thewoods
thewoods (on 29 December 2010)

Super Mario Bros are just super!!

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spurgeonryan
spurgeonryan (on 29 December 2010)

and its not just that mario is popular but they keep making fun games! People know they will have fun with his games.

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miz1q2w3e
miz1q2w3e (on 29 December 2010)

Way to go MARIO!!! best video game series ever! :D

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Cheebee
Cheebee (on 29 December 2010)

All the money they're making off Mario, and they can't even find it in their hearts to give me Tingle RPG 2... T_T

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Pineapple
Pineapple (on 29 December 2010)

Oh, I disagree Smoked Hostage. Black and White has a decent chance of making 20 million. It has next to no chance of making NSMB DS numbers, though, as that title is going to end up around 30 million in the end.

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SmokedHostage
SmokedHostage (on 29 December 2010)

Sorry Mordred11 but if you think Pokémon Black and White have a chance of selling over 20 million units, you're mistaken.

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Mordred11
Mordred11 (on 29 December 2010)

Excellent numbers,I think Black/White has a chance of outselling it though :P

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RolStoppable
RolStoppable (on 28 December 2010)

Great game, I'd like to point out a glaring error in this news article though. The sales of NSMB should be combined with the Wii version, because it's basically copypasted with multiplayer tacked on. So it's ten million in total. Booyah!

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elmerion
elmerion (on 28 December 2010)

" Maybe the 142 million DS systems in the world helped his cause." It was theo ther way around, check your facts

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bannedagain
bannedagain (on 28 December 2010)

GOOD for nintendo. They deserve every bit of it.

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TheSource
TheSource (on 28 December 2010)

We have almost 6.2m on VGC, pretty close over a period of years.

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