Mario Kart sold 18.05m New Super Mario Bros sold 19.66mMonsieurX

Mario Kart Wii: 18.36 million

New Super Mario Bros: 19.94 million (very close to 20 million)

These are official figures given out by Nintendo from its quarterly business report.

Well, considering the majority of Wii owners are going to buy something with "Mario" slapped on the box. I think it can outsell MW2, in the long run. Because Nintendo games have to tendency to sell more after a long time. So I think at launch MW2 will sell better, but give Mario a few months and he just may out sell it. Mario2007

I wonder why so many PS3 and Xbox 360 games are so "front-loaded," that is, they sell high in the first few days or week, then drop more than 50% the next week? Do these games have word-of-mouth that will maintain solid sales in the long term?

Yesterday, I chatted with a customer service representative at the online retailer Newegg.com on whether California buyers of the upcoming DSi XL will be charged with the state's eWaste recycling fee. Newegg.com has a physical presence in California, Tennesee, and New Jersey. She replied that because the DSi XL has two screens each over 4" diagonally, it is subject to the $8 recycling fee. This fee also applies to cell phones or PDAs whose screen are over 4" diagonally. I orignally thought the recycling fee applies only to LCD TVs/monitors, plasma TVs, LED TVs, laptops, netbooks, eReaders, CRT TVs, or tablets. I was wrong.

As a result, I give this warning to fellow Californians who wish to purchase the DSi XL from a store within the state: you will have to pay the $8 recycling fee because its screens are each over 4" diagonally. Please consider buying out-of-state or buying online from a retailer who has no physical presence in California (e.g. Amazon.com) if you wish to avoid paying the $8 recycling fee.

If Spirit Tracks requires the use of one of the built-in cameras on the DSi, it would be DSi only. It does not fortunately.

I noticed a lot of people on this forum don't know how to spell ridiculous. I fear for the American educational system.

dual_boot

It is not the education system, it is the English language with its un-phonic spelling conventions. Many English words are pronounced differently than how they are spelled.

Yes, I already pre-ordered the game at Amazon.com. It would be the first Zelda game I played since "A Link to the Past" on the SNES more than fifteen years ago, as I decided to regain my interest in the franchise.

Nintendo seriously needs to be more stingy with their "seal of quality."

Bubble_Man

This common misconception needs to stop now, as people still are uninformed on what the "Seal of Quality" really represents! Nintendo's "Seal of Quality" was never applied to a game's quality, but whether it can work on Nintendo's systems. Nintendo was never an arbiter of the games that were released on its system, and should never be. The consumer is the arbiter, whether a game or product is worth its quality or not.

If Nintendo was the arbiter, it would have a very small library as most third-party developers would be offended that the publisher is telling them how to make a game as well violate their independence. Nintendo would have alienated these developers who would then develop for its rivals, losing profits through licensing fees. Nintendo as a company may not last long as there is no guarantee that these few "high-quality" games will be profitable and a major sales bust would force it to the brink of bankruptcy.

they deserve for it to be pirated. They should actually try to make a decent game for the wii isntead of a stupid port.

painguy1

No game deserves to be pirated regardless of quality.

My choices:

Nintendo and Level 5

Nintendo and Square-Enix (Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest characters in a future Super Smash Bros. game; Cloud vs. Link)

Nintendo and Capcom (Monster Hunter, Resident Evil, Megaman, Street Fighter all exclusive in Nintendo's systems)

Steam+ps3

aldaris652

Steam is a service, not a company.