New Super Mario Bros Wii selling faster than New Super Mario Bros.

[burgerstein]

Khuutra said:

LordTheNightKnight said:

--OkeyDokey-- said:

You think NSMB would have sold anywhere near as fast as it did if it didn't launch during the holidays with plenty of advertising and the stongest brand power in the industry on the most popular console of all time?

Really, it's stupid saying bu-bu-but this or that. Facts are facts. MW2 is the fastest selling game of all time. NSMB will break plenty of record of its own. It already has 6 consecutive weeks over a million and that's just as impressive.

You're doing the same "bu-bu-but", and huge launches are not the same as selling fast, especially since that term takes legs into account, and Mario has more legs, and trying to pretend that's just the holidays shows you haven't paid attention to other Nintendo games that didn't launch around this time.

Would you two cut it out

MW2 is the fastest-selling game ever within a specific timeframe

NSMBWii may be the fastest-selling game ever within a different timeframe, but it remains to be seen.

The whole "fastest selling" term just bugs me. By what criteria is it measured? The most sales in a week? The total number of sales divided by the weeks it's been out? I'm pretty sure I heard that in a commercial for something (probably MW2) and it just drives me crazy. It's just so ambiguous.