Which *New* Super Mario game will win when all is said and done?

[mike_intellivision]

Does not really matter because gamers will be the winners.

Honestly, I expect the DS to keep the sales crown. It will get close to 20M by Xmas. Meanwhile, the Wii game (not version -- they are different), will probably do a lifetime 15M -- and some will think that a failure. The reason for the lower sales is that there are new 3D Marios on the Wii but not on the DS.

I also expect the DS version to have the higher critic score. There are a lot of strange review sites out there (look at the DS NSMB scores and where they are from). I do not expect the plethra of "good" reviews from unheard of websites to help overcome the "bad" reviews this time around because fewer and fewer places seem to do Wii games. So unusual sites will be doing it more to complain than to priase. (Please note that "good" and "bad" are meant here to reference the perceived game quality on the part of the reviewer and not the quality of the review).

Do the Wii version will score in the mid-80s while the DS version is just under 90 (89.3).

Mike from Morgantown