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New Super Mario Bros is first six million seller on DS

by Justin McElroy on Dec 28th 2010 5:10PM

Our friends in Japan often have ... peculiar tastes when it comes to their gaming passions. Specifically, they are taught from a young age to despise any game in which they don't capture monsters. Fact: The nation's most popular T-shirt actually reads, "I'd rather capture a monster than my next breath of oxygen." It's true!

It's an even more impressive accomplishment, then, that the country's first game to sell six million copies on DS doesn't feature any monster capturing to speak of. No, it's New Super Mario Bros., which hit 6,015,255 units as of December 26 according to the latest Enterbrain data.

Congrats, Mario. Now, if science ever figures out a way to put monster catching into one of your games ... well, let's just pray it never comes to that.

Source: Andriasang

Tags: ds, enterbrain, New-Super-Mario-Bros-DS, nintendo

Reader Comments (20)

Damn right Mario. You show that Pokemon who runs Barter town

And I helped!

I actually was talking to some friends about a year before it was announced how it would be cool if they remade a 2D Mario game with a 3d engine, like the Mario level in SSB Melee. When this came out, I bought a DS for it.

Didn't they try that with Luigi's Mansion? according to Pokemon, ghosts are monsters too!

Thread title is misleading...

You guys should specify that the game is the first six million seller in Japan.

@FernandoRocker

It's all part of a vast internet conspiracy. Exhibit A:

http://www.slashgear.com/new-super-mario-bros-sells-six-million-copies-for-ds-28121630/

I helped as well, then I traded it in :(

Little known fact, Mario actually has little Pokemon balls embedded into the soles of his boots, and that's why he has to stomp on monsters.

@Courtney

Little Known Fact 2: Nintendo asked for the original pokemon games to be coloured Red and Blue so that they would subconsciously be associated with Mario and thus Nintendo

@videoseph little known fact 4: in japan, there are 3 pokemon stadium games on the N64.

@Courtney

Little Known Fact 4: Pokémon's name at the beginning was 'Pockemon'.

@Soiden

Little known fact #6 : Pokemon is how a Jamaican person says "Poke".

Monsterz r kool

“IT'S-A-ME!!! PROFIT-TO!!!”

Does it count that he has to 'catch' Peach from Bowser.

I bet she can be a right monster once ever 28 days...

@mrmobius

What would happen if Bowser kidnapped her during that time?

@zfallen
Mario would be forced to rescue Bowser from Peach.

@Eli Haj
Then Luigi would try to save the princess...poor Luigi

2d platformers put all these fancy modern games to shame on the sales charts, yet publishers continue to relegate their own platformers to digital download obscurity

And yet I still get killed by that first Goomba. OTL

@The Only Girl

Think I have finally found a worse acronym than SMH, here.

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Posted: Dec 28th 2010 5:17PM Cleric said

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