Metroid:
America: 2+ million
Europe: 1+ million
Japan: 150K, give or take
total: over 3 million, possibly pushing 3.5 (best-selling Metroid ever)
Smash Bros.:
America: 4+ million
Japan: 2+ million
Europe: roughly 1.5 million
total: 8 million, give or take 300K (best-selling fighting game ever)
Mario
America: 5.5 million, give or take
Japan: less than 2 million
Europe: 2.5-3 million
total: right around 10 million. Could be as low as 9; probably won't reach 11. (Possibly the 9th Mario game to sell 10 million copies)
It will be interesting to see how Mario and Smash do versus Nintendogs, Brain Training and Animal Crossing (assuming they all come to Wii). Those games are all way bigger than Smash Bros. on DS right now.
"[Our former customers] are unable to find software which they WANT to play."
"The way to solve this problem lies in how to communicate what kind of games [they CAN play]."
Satoru Iwata, Nintendo President. Only slightly paraphrased.
