I've never known as much hype for a Nintendo game as for Super Mario Galaxy 2. I remember people being ridiculously excited about The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess and Mario Sunshine but perhaps the buzz surrounding Galaxy 2 trumps them all. Perhaps it's because we know we're being treated. After all this is the first time that there have been two 3D Mario games on one console and it's the follow up to perhaps the greatest Mario adventure of them all.
But will it be the biggest Mario game yet? History would suggest otherwise. I received a list of the [ame="http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=392872"]
lifetime sales for Mario games in Japan[/ame] this morning and it makes for interesting reading. As you can see below, just one 3D Mario game makes the top ten and it's right at the bottom. Galaxy is absent. Meanwhile New Super Mario Bros. Wii is now the fifth best selling Mario game of all time in Japan and if it carries on selling at its current 40,000 per week rate, it won't be long before it overtakes Super Mario Bros. 3.
01. Super Mario Bros. - 6.810.000
02. New Super Mario Bros. - 5.782.920
03. Super Mario Land - 4.190.000
04. Super Mario Bros. 3 - 3.840.000
05. New Super Mario Bros. Wii - 3.637.209
06. Super Mario World - 3.550.000
07. Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins (Nintendo) - / 2.700.000
08. Super Mario Bros. 2 (Nintendo) - 2.650.000
09. Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island - 1.770.000
10. Super Mario 64 - 1.639.921
Full article here:
ONM Blog: How do you like your Mario? 2D or 3D? - Official Nintendo Magazine
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