Is it counting unique play entries or people dying and replay it again?

If not, it looks like this game should be at least over 400,000 sold FW.

People dying and trying again. The 61,000 is unique though, but that includes reviewers, and it could be a level used in exhibitions. I'd not read much into it.

Still waiting to get my copy...

Waiting has always been the worst part, eh?

Super Mario Number 1! Exited to see what kind of fun levels the community makes.

That level is really hard, took me about and hour to beat it

Yay, I got the game. Booh, my kids hijacked it straight away. Oh well, seeing the huge smile on my 4 year old's face was totally worth it, and by the time I get my hands on it everything will be unlocked.

So far I'm quite impressed. No matter how much crap they throw on screen it all just works. Stacks and stacks of marching enemies, walls of mushrooms, coins flying everywhere lol. They're not getting very far with the actual tutorial :)

Question: Is that patch to unlock course elements faster not live yet?
We're still limited to the starter stuff and all that came up was new course elements will be available on Saturday. It says there is update data installed for MarioMaker, yet we also had a corrupted update in download management, no info from what.

Woo, finally got the game!

No, so far the patch has only been released in Japan, is probably dropping tomorrow for everyone else