Nintendo's
New Super Mario Bros. Wii has sold 3,002,753 units in Japan, becoming the fastest game ever to reach the 3 million mark in that country.
It accomplished the feat in seven weeks, says a Famitsu report translated
by consumer weblog Kotaku.
New Super Mario Bros. Wii launched in Japan on December 3, 2009, and had the
biggest-ever debut for a Wii title.
At that time, the title sold 936,734 units in its first week in Japan -- the biggest debut to date for a Wii title in that country.
NSMB Wii even outdid Nintendo's previous first-week sales champion,
Super Smash Bros. Brawl, which sold 816,000 units in its debut week.
In further worldwide success, the Wii exclusive was the
top-selling game in the U.S. for December, selling 2.8 million units, according to NPD estimates, and was the
third best-selling U.S. title all year, following
Wii Sports Resort and the market-leading
Modern Warfare 2.
Although Infinity Ward's
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 broke global sales and revenue records for the year, analysts like EEDAR's Jesse Divnich
have suggested that, over its lifetime,
New Super Mario Bros. Wii will eventually surpass that title.
