New Super Mario Bros. Wii was set up as the tent pole game for Nintendo this holiday and sales reports from Japan indicate that the game will live up to its billing. Enterbrain is reporting that the 2D Mario game sold 936,734 copies in its first week of availability, helped no doubt by Famitsu’s perfect 40/40 score of the title
The sales mark by New Super Mario Bros. Wii is the best ever for a Wii game in Japan, besting Dairanto Smash Brothers X (Super Smash Bros. Brawl in the U.S.) by over 100,000. Also, Andriasang reports that the game had 422,000 unit sales its first day of availability.
Again, we’d just like to reiterate that the structure of New Super Mario Bros. Wii as a classic Mario title is more a “slam dunk” or a “license to print money” for Nintendo rather than how Miyamoto characterized it as “courageous.”
