Anyway theres always a curse I dunno regarding core games or games hyped by the core gamers on the Wii. Once it hyped either it became niche or it will bombed. Just look at WSR and just look how much sales the game have because it didnt hyped in gaming sites such as this. Now look at Muramasa and compared it to the sales and the hype generating in gaming websites and forums.

I think even Nintendo themselves dont want the game to be hyped they want it to be silent as possible. its the word of mouth wants to make the hype for them.

I dunno but NSMB Wii will have the same fate as MP3 if this keeps it up. for one thing, many core gamers thinks this is a core game and should considered to be a wiiware or XBL or PSN game. Its like Wii Sports considered to be a PSN game because its only a 300MB game.

No correlation. And to think NSMBW may bomb is just silly.

Chill.

Well look at Super Mario Galaxy and Super Smash Bros. Brawl. They were hyped more than NSMBWii and they've sold over 8 million copies.

This is a first party Nintendo game with the words 'Mario' and 'Wii' and is multi-player. The DS version has sold about 20 million copies.

You don't have to be worried about it's sales.. Even if it does bomb for some ungodly reason, does it matter? Wii owners will have an awesome 2D Mario game and no amount of sales (or lack thereof) can take that away.

Wow, weird thread... Yushire, if I rfecall correctly you used to post loads but you have been missing in action for ages now, welcome back!

OT - Yes, people are hyping this games, but essentially in a sales sense. But it is unfair to compare to WSR and Muramasa (or Madworld). This is a ... Mario! No hype needed. Now, it clearly won't sell DS like numbers but it'll sell. And I think everyone is pretty clear on that.

Now, you call this game core but Mario is pretty main stream so will surely bot fall the Metroid route. And I think Nintendo will take all the hype they can get.

I think the only doubt is its eventual impact on HW numbers. Here, you hear a bit of everything and I am sure some might be disappointed due to exagerated expectations.

I was hyping WSR.

Yeah, this is Mario. It's the first true 2D Mario game on a console in about 19 years. It's going to sell over 15 million easily.

Americas pre-order numbers should be up later today, and if not, definitely by tomorrow, check it out and look and NSMBW's pre-orders, they're really good IMO.

Why the hell not? I keep hearing this and I don't understand why!

Nobody was saying that Mario Kart Wii could beat Mario Kart DS but guess what? It did! How? Basically because it looked fun to play and because it was very easy for somebody to come over to a Mario Kart Wii owners house and try it for themselves. New Super Mario Bros. Wii is exactly the same except it's a main entry 2D Mario platformer. Not to mention that it will be the big game for the Wii for the first non-supply constricted-first price cut-holiday.

How is it CLEAR that it won't sell 19 million units? Sure that is a lot but how can you be so sure?

yushire? Is that really you?

Why don't you have a cute Asian girl for an avatar?

I'm sorry to say this, but there are some games that will sell well no matter what, and Mario is one of them. Not to say this game won't be good, but it's pretty unfair that Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games sells more than Valkyria Chronicles.

Very much this.