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Brawl tops one million sales, has already passed Galaxy

by Chris Greenhough on Feb 12th 2008 3:00PM

Super Smash Bros. Brawl unleashed the mother of all Final Smashes on the Japanese charts last week by selling 820,000 copies in four days. Now, Famitsu publisher Enterbrain says Nintendo's scrapper (released eleven days ago) has topped the one million sales mark, and passed another Wii flagship title in the process: Super Mario Galaxy (released almost three and a half months ago). That's crazy.

To be fair to Galaxy, it's far from the only game to be left spluttering in Brawl's dust. Next-gen notes that Wii Fit took seven weeks to pass a million sales, that Wii Sports passed the landmark after eleven weeks, and that Wii Play and Mario Party 8 are the only other Wii titles to top a million units in Japan.

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Tags: enterbrain, fighting, japan, mario-party-8, million, smash-bros-brawl, ssbb, super-mario-galaxy, wii-fit, wii-play, wii-sports

Reader Comments (28)

so brawl is that good huh?

Sales and quality aren't connected. I'd bet Brawl is phenomenal.. but so was Galaxy.

"Sales and quality aren't connected."

What? I assume you mean aren't perfectly correlated, as some good games garnish crappy sales (Z&W and NMH come to mind). But to suggest that good games NEVER sell well is kind of silly. Of course sales and quality are connected.

Where did you get the idea that I suggested good games never sell well? I just said sales and quality aren't connected because Galaxy didn't do so well in Japan and it's an amazing game. Often an excellent game will go unnoticed because it didn't get proper advertising, or some other tiny issue. I was addressing the point KidSqueek made, assuming Brawl is a perfect game because it's selling. Talk about putting words into my mouth.

Is English your second language? If so I can give you a pass here. The words you used, "Sales and quality aren't connected", suggests that, um, sales and quality aren't connected. That would mean that there's no correlation between the two or there's an inverse relationship. If that were true, "good games never sell well" is a constrained conclusion, or that there is no basis with which to make a link between the two. It was just an odd choice of words. How about: "sales don't guarantee quality" or "quality doesn't always garnish sales"? Speaking to Galaxy, it's quickly approaching Halo-3-level sales, so it's not like it isn't getting recognized.

Okay, and a game costs around 6500 yen or about $61 USD, right? Nintendo sure is rich, first the Wii and now Smash Bros Brawl! Imagine the success it'll see here in the US and in Europe!

Well if anything, those stupid Halo fanboys that were running around saying that Halo 3 was the best day released game will be put to shame when March 09th comes around.

Halo fanboys will always find a way to twist the numbers in their favor. I like to pay attention to the lifespan of a game instead of sales from the first week. Not everybody buys a game the day it's released, even if they are interested. And Mario Galaxy has legs. It's sold over 5 and a half million since launch because people are buying it consistently, closing the gap on Halo 3's current 7.2 million. I'm willing to bet Brawl will have legs too and outsell both, even if it doesn't outdo Halo 3 on release day.

What would I do without vgchartz.com? :)

You would have figures pulled out of your own ass rather than someone elses?

Are you going to compare the sales of every single Wii release in Japan to those of Galaxy now? Yes Brawl is doing well, great, but why does that have to be at the expense of Galaxy? Please give it a rest.....

You're taking this the wrong way, Hame. The Galaxy comparison is only there to underline just how amazing Brawl sales have been.

Well, what other game is he going to compare it to? Wii Fit? OK, sure thing, he has that there, but what else? What other major first-party releases are the sales worthy of being compared to here? Hmm ...

How do you get him trashing Galaxy from all of this, though? Seriously?

I'm sorry Chris and David, I'm not having a go at you. I've just noticed that in every single article about sales of both Wii Fit and Brawl you keep mentioning how much more they've sold than Galaxy, insinuating that Galaxy was a flop in comparison, which I don't really think is necessary.

NO WAY!! Brawl sold well!!!!??? That's cRAZY!! It's just quite possibly one of the best games ever. Now why would that sell well? (sarcasm)
But the wait for Brawl is KILLING me!! I have Days of Ruin right now which'll hold me over for a while, but March 9?? And I feel sorry for anybody in Europe who has to wait even longer.

Its no surprise to me that Brawl's sales are off the roof, even more than Galaxy. Don't get me wrong, I freakin LOVE galaxy, got all 120 stars and beat it, but smash bros has online play, new characters, yadda yadda yadda, i expect the sales to be very high when it releases here in the US too.

And its delayed yet AGAIN

Brawl will match or beat Halo 3 in worldwide sales within three months of release.

imagine if master chief was in Brawl?? lol... sorry for the stupid comment... i'll shut up and cry now...

Well hello new money printer!

I'm sure galaxy'll be better, but I'm sure I'm the minority there.

its so glitchy.

Why aint it out here yet?

hey all! over at our website, we got a copy of the Japanese version and took it for a spin:
check out our thoughts here - http://playstation.joystiq.com/2008/02/12/dynasty-warriors-6-goes-gold-plus-new-screens/ - and tell us what you think. thanks for reading!

4 messages, all spamming. Good job Mark, glad to have you aboard :[

You can see in that link it says DW6 -_-
I've been playing Brawl for a while now and although it's good being online(I couldn't find a connection) The fights have been stripped back and seem to lack the skill that was previously required....The new characters are fun yes, but the whole experience feels dumbed down....

still did not beat FFxii yet got anotherone nintendo ..FFXII sold two million in a week on the ps2 ..come look whats gonna happen when ffXIII comes out ps3 will dominate then in japan ok sony will come back world wide then

was that a joke?

i was just this morning at my local EB and saw FFXII for $38 it wasnt even a pre-owned copy!!!

i dont doubt FFXII was a hit in japan but the fun ended at FFX...that was the last game i bought from the FF franchise (i did pick up KH2 though)

to be honest playstation is doing a sega on us...i wouldnt be surprised if next generation theyre down to making third party games for xbox. the only reason sony havnt gone under yet is because the PS2 still has some legs left in it. the PS3 = a PS2 on blu-roids.

adam you are just a grumpy fanbofor sony stock is stronger than microsoft and note what you just FFXII got a 10 out of 10 in famitsu so you go check the records if you wanna i feeel that only nintendo can go making third party games for xbox or the ps3

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