One possible answer is 31,950.

If we're using ASCii codes, then it's 9,923,836,230.

Turkish, I'm sure that your beloved company would like to have that problem, Mario.

Mario is a great problem to have.

Pretty much every developer would love to have Mario.

NSMB.2 is a skippable Mario game if you already played NSMB on the DS and/or played NSMB.Wii, but if you played niether then it maybe a good purchase. New Super Mario Bros. U on the other hand might be something entirely different thou: Mario in HD!, the background is just gorgeous; amazing to look at instead of the plain, bland backgrounds on none-HD ones, and there might be more to be revealed. 

New Super Mario Bros. 2 is a fantastic game, and I think the best of the NSMB series.

But the thing is, it's only marginally different. That's the problem. Each game is just an expansion, really, than anything else.

The sales DO reflect this opinion... I never said 3D Mario was more commercially viable, I just said it was better and less creatively stagnant (which I realise is just opinion but it has nothing to do with sales...I'm a fan not a businesman).  These days 2d mario games  attract (so-called) casuals  and sell to the masses by the bucketload, while 3d mario only seems to sell to the more discerning 'elitist' gamers (although 6-10 million units could hardly be called poor sales could they?)...I work with grannies and fat housewives who rushed out to buy the last 2 'New Super Mario Bros' (completely oblivious to the fact they are essentially playing remakes of games that are 20 years old) and then stare at me like a syphilitic leper when I have the nerve to ask them if they've played GALAXY or Mario Land...'Oh they're just too confusing for me...I don't know which way I'm running'....I'm surprised they can find their way to the toilet. These are the people buying 2D Mario games these days....

While there are a few exceptions, we don't generally live in a society where products sell based on their quality or artistic merits, which is why many a creative genius died hungry and insane in their own time and people like Stephenie Meyer live to be fat rich and happy ;)

I bet if any NSMB had ideas, inventions, innovations etc. blabla like the classics and World had, people would just go ahead and say "oh we've seen that before, thanks" because those games pretty much offered everything possible in 2D world games. If it's so easy to get new ideas into games that haven't been used before and keep you entertained for more than a few hours, go ahead and do it better.
Even if Nintendo released Super Mario World 2, the real one, with all those ideas Miyamoto had for the first game, people would just see it as a lame sequel that adds two or three things but isn't new.
People should just stick to the games they love, forever, instead of talking bad about every new game that releases because it doesn't appeal to them.

And yeah, I bought NSMB2 and it's not super great. But I don't feel any need to rub it in anyone's face because reviews and opinions of others don't matter. It will be fun to finish and it will be fun to finish it again in co-op mode. No matter what bloggers and magazines want to tell me.

(And be honest just for once: the older Marios are as easy. It may be harder at a few spots due to the slightly worse control feeling but that's it. You'd finish them in no time as well now. Just because you didn't as a kid doesn't mean they weren't as easy. Take out your SNES now and try it. Super Mario World should be the only one taking more time due to its number and size of levels.)

Did you bother to actually read the article or did you just see the title and use it to leverage an insult towards Sony/Turkish?

I've read the article another time, to see if I missed something, and I don't see the problem. 2D Mario is the pinnacle of platform games, the only problem I see here is the double standards the press has with some games, and too much games in a short period of time due to the launch of two new consoles, but that doesn't mean reduced metacritic averages for other franchises, the so called "hardcore" franchises that get a pass whatever they do. I've never seen so much criticism in the press to yearly franchises. It's funny that the media considers Mario a problem, when Mario games (plus MH3D in Japan) are the main reason why the 3DS is selling.

The article mentions reduced sales, and I'm saying that Sony would love to have an equivalent to Mario, even with reduced sales, to lift Vita sales. It's funny that one of the most recognized Sony fans on this forum opens a thread to criticize Mario sales, when Sony has a much bigger problem with Vita sales. Only that.