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Galaki on 12 October 2009

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Miyamoto: New Super Mario Bros. Wii will sell for many years

October 11th, 2009 Posted in News, Wii, Written by Valay

Nintendo hosted another retailer briefing today in Japan. One of the major highlights at the event was Shigeru Miyamoto playing and demonstrating New Super Mario Bros. Wii to attendees. While going through the game, Miyamoto made a comment about his anticipated feeling of the title’s sales.

“It’s a Mario that will continue selling even after one year has passed.”

All sorts of Nintendo software – especially games on the Wii and DS – have had long legs. With the first New Super Mario Bros., for instance, only around 10.3% of the title’s sales came in the first week. And surely New Super Mario Bros. Wii will be a top priority, as Satoru Iwata explained a few months ago that the game as seen as a key title for the company this holiday. Iwata does indeed have high expectations for New Super Mario Bros. Wii., and had also pointed out that he believes it can “surpass 10m copies worldwide in the whole fiscal year.”

Miyamoto is being Captain Obvious?

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Majin-Tenshinhan on 12 October 2009

Someone should make a pic of Miyamoto in a superhero costume, as the forementioned Captain Obvious.

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Onyxmeth on 12 October 2009

Not only is that the most obvious statement of the year, but it's incredibly modest. After one year? What Mario game hasn't continued selling moderately well after two or even three years? His expectations are rather low or maybe he just doesn't know how well his own games sell.

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Pineapple on 12 October 2009

Wait, 10.3% of NSMB DS' sales came in the first week? That doesn't fit in with VGChartz numbers

It has it at 6.22%.

As for him saying that it will sell 10 million in its first fiscal year. What does that mean for christmas? Let's see.

Say it will sell as Wii Fit did in that period in Q1 (what Wii Fit did in 09 will equal NSMB Wii in 10). It sold 4.2 million, and that was the by far best selling game in the period. Thinking that NSMB Wii will beat that is unlikely, so ~ 4 million in Q1 seems logical. That means he expects it to sell around 6 million during the christmas period.

Edit: Believe it or not, but selling for many years isn't that common on Wii. Miyamoto isn't talking about it selling some copies, he's talking about it being an evergreen title - something Super Mario Galaxy wasn't, and it is debatable if Mario Kart Wii was.

If he is indeed saying it will be an evergreen title, it means he's saying it will sell Wii Fit-esque, rather than be a larger Super Mario Galaxy.

I mean, look a bit closer at it. He's saying it will sell 10 million in 4 months, but not drop off a lot. He cannot possibly believe that it will sell under 20 million; this is not captain obvious at all.

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Gnizmo on 12 October 2009

I really hope it manages to top their wildest expectations, and crush SMG and SMG2. A return to 2D Mario platformers would be glorious. Some genres work better in 2D than 3D, and some are just completely different beasts. 3D and 2D platformers are so wildly different that both should be supported, and it has made me sad over the years that 2D ones have been so ignored.

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Avinash_Tyagi on 12 October 2009

Onyxmeth said:

Not only is that the most obvious statement of the year, but it's incredibly modest. After one year? What Mario game hasn't continued selling moderately well after two or even three years? His expectations are rather low or maybe he just doesn't know how well his own games sell.

I think he means really well, like NSMB on the DS, Galaxy didn't sell that well 1 year after its release

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Mr Khan on 12 October 2009

NSMB still rears its head on the WorldWide Charts from time to time, and slightly more often than that on the regional charts (especially Japan and Others), and that was over 4 years ago, and this game has a multiplayer element.

Like i said before, the only way this game will fall short of astronomical sales is if the City Folk effect eats into it, where people just don't want a similar console version of the game (though it's harder in this case, since this game is doing more to distinguish itself from it's DS counterpart)