Japan Sales week 26, Jun 24 - 30 2019, Famitsu

[Kai_Mao]

RolStoppable said:

TruckOSaurus said:
Nice start for SMM2, anybody remember how much NSMBUD sold on its first week? I'm interested in comparing how popular the Maker series is compared to the regular 2D Mario games.

PS4 is holding well considering it's not discounted anymore (right?).

NSMBU Deluxe sold 185k units first week, according to Famitsu. It's a port of an old game though.

According to a mix of Media Create and Famitsu as sources:

NSMB (DS) - 899k
NSMB Wii - 936k
NSMB2 - 430k
NSMBU - 160k

The staleness of NSMB2 certainly took a toll on sales. NSMBU was a Wii U launch title, so naturally capped by sales of the console (Wii U debuted to sales of a good 300k units, so that would have been the maximum NSMBU could have achieved with a 100% attach rate). Although staleness was a factor too.

While the decline was possible, it didn't help that NSMB2 and NSMBU were released so close together.

NSMB2 released in July/August 2012

NSMBU released in November/December 2012

Unfortunately, NSMBU was a launch title for the Wii U so it had to release alongside the console. Thus, the series is in this particular predicament.