Super Mario Bros. Wonder Sales Top 4.3 Million Units in 2 Weeks - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 07 November 2023 / 5,408 Views
Nintendo announced Super Mario Bros. Wonder sold over 4.3 million units worldwide with the first two weeks of release.
The game is the fastest-selling Super Mario related title since tracking began with the Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS.
"Super Mario related titles also tend to sell consistently over a long period of time," said Nintendo. "We anticipate this title will be an appealing choice for consumers during the upcoming holiday season and will continue to sell next year onwards as well.
"Super Mario Bros. Wonder is the first entirely new entry in the sidescrolling Super Mario series in about 11 years.
This title provides surprising new 2D Mario experiences, and we believe that this, in conjunction with global excitement from The Super Mario Bros. Movie, resulted in the large sales volume."
Super Mario Bros. Wonder released for the Nintendo Switch on October 20.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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With zelda and Pokemon doing 10 million in 3 days, thought this would do 7- 8 million in the same time frame.
Still very good numbers but definitely lower than i anticipated.
Yeah, thats way lower than I thought it would. Guess its because its so close until christmas. Lots of copies under the trees for gamers this year probably.
So in all likelihood the Spideman 2 outsold or matched Mario which is surprising giving the disparity in user base sizes.
Since this us just sell-through data it's probably closer to 6M shipped after first 2 weeks and it's most likely the fastest selling Mario game of all time. I can't imagine any other Mario game before the Wii/DS era doing sales like this in it's first 2 weeks.
While I'm sure people probably expected more, Mario hasn't really shown to be huge in launch sales like that but they do good as evergreen titles. Games like Odyssey,NSMB Wii/DS, the Mario Kart games, had relatively small launch sales but all still sold 30+Million. This game will still sell similarly to Pokemon/Zelda when all said and done but will do so more by evergreen sales.
oof. Not great compared to general expectations. Even though 2D Mario is never gonna have the hype of a major 3D game, I still thought it would do like >7m just in the launch weekend. Even after launch when it seemed clear it sold less than I thought I still thought it woulda hit like 5-6m just that launch weekend. This is much much lower. 20m lifetime still seems likely even with next gen likely starting in a year, but my prediction of it potentially reaching 30m is dead.
Still, I expect it'll have big holiday sales because their are probably millions of kids who are gonna get it as a christmas present. And will likely have good legs. Considering NSMBUD is chasing 20m there's no way this should sell less than that mediocre last gen port.
That’s a really good number, but people on this forum had utterly bizarre expectations for this game.
Definitely much lower than I thought but yeah if there is any series that is all legs sales-wise it is Mario so this is probably good.
good sales if it were any producer but for Nintendo I found very little, Spider Man 2 sold more than that in two weeks
After the first week SMW was higher in the charts so we can't know it untilsony shows the sales...
This still coming for 30 million
It's great for context. This is low compared to Scarlet & Violet and Tears of the Kingdom. But that doesn't mean Super Mario Bros. won't have large lifetime sales. Odyssey has about 26.95 million units so far, and I see very few scenarios where it doesn't hit 30 million.
Wonder will probably sell similarly or better than Odyssey.
This will be an evergreen and will probably reach 15-20 million copies when all is said and done.
Think they beat spiderman 2 sales
Possibly…though not sure what Spider-Man has to do with this lol.
Both games came out the same day, and many people here and elsewhere expressed they intended to buy both games (I plan to buy both myself eventually). I don't think it is out of line to wonder which game sold better.
