Absolutely! But critics never based on fun. It is more objective, although the game is not so fun.

None of them. They are all new.

Nope, they're entirely different. And almost universally better to boot.

and coop is awesome, is the best part of the game

First day sales for NSMB on DS was about 500k if i recall, i'll get a link soon. Yet it had a debut of 900k, Then First week sales werent dependant on First day sales unlike FF and DQ, where first day sales exceed 1.5-2 mil usually. So preorders dont base first week sales for mario games usually. However this game looks like its gna be huuuuge

Here's a link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Super_Mario_Bros.
Sry couldnt find other than Wiki, but it says 480000 first day, week one over 900000. Expect NSMB Wii to follow similarly ( ie first week sales double first day sales)

I think Mario will have about as much success in Japan as it did in America about 800k-900k oppening week. I'd suspect Mario will see alot of good sales in the near future. Also if you haven't picked up this game and you own a Wii, your insaine go out to the store and buy it already. I expect it to sell fairly well in Japan.

Too bad Japan isn't included in Reggies bet or he just may have won.

I knew some were going to misunderstand this. See if you would look at the history of this site and their numbers you can see that games like FF and the Tailsseries are more dependent on bigger numbers on this site than games like Mario to have a big debut. FF13 will have a monsterdebut no doubt about that but it won´t be that much bigger compared to NSMBW as this figures seem to show. This is what I wrote earlier in this thread:

Also keep in mind when comparing games on this chart that "hardcore games" or whatever we´re supposed to call them (games like FF, Tales series, MH etc.) are higher represented in this list compared to games that sell with legs and that usually aren´t as likely to depend on huge preordernumbers. Mario is somewhere in the middle, not very dependent on huge points on Comgnet ranking system. NSMB for DS had a massive debut week with 865 k according to Famitsu but "only" had a final day ranking of 688 pt according to Comgnet when it comes to preorders. As you can see this makes NSMBW´s numbers look mighty good already.

To judge how Marios new outing is going to debut it´s more relevant to compare NSMBW numbers with NSMB for DS than with numbers for FF13. And NSMBW is tracking above NSMB.

Edit: To be more exact. Games like Final Fantasy and the Tailes series are overrepresented on this list compared to how the games actually debut in sales. This also means that Tales of Graces for instance will debut much lower behind NSMBW than these figures show. The best way to analyse these numbers is to compare games with previous ones in the same genre, for instance NSMBW with NSMB, FF13 with FF12, Tales of Graces with Tales of Vesperia etc. If you go to Nipponsalesage there is a link that goes to the history of these charts where you can look up daily rankings all the way back to 2005 I believe.

This is what I earlier thought as well. But there are strong signs in Japan that the Mario game will debut huge. We must also weigh in the December factor so while I earlier would have predicted anything from 400-600k I know believe the game can debut around 800-900k. Don´t shoot me but I would not be entirely shocked to see it sell around or just under the million but that I still think is too much. We´ll see soon =)

Trying to compare FF13 preordersdirectly to NSMB Wii is a massive lol, FF13 is so frontloaded and core that it relies entirely on preorders

NSMB Wii is a completely different beast, and preorders this high mean more than High preorders for FF13