Nintendo Land is the biggest selling Wii U game, whilst New Super Mario Bros. 2 takes the 3DS sales top spot.
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/33178
Nintendo sold 12.71 million 3DS systems and 3.06 million Wii U consoles in 2012, according to the hardware giant's latest financial highlights.
Out of the 3DS units sold last year, the 3DS XL accounted for 7.05 million of them, bringing the total lifetime-to-date sales of the handheld to 29.84 million.
On the software front, New Super Mario Bros. 2 achieved the highest sales numbers of the year with 5.96 million copies sold. The currently Japan-only Animal Crossing: New Leaf, which is due for release in the West later this year, took second place, pushing 2.73 million copies.
The Wii U sales data did not specify what proportion of sales were taken by the Basic and Premium console bundles respectively. However, software sales were pegged at 11.69 million units, which indicates an attach rate of approximately 3.82 games per system.
Nintendo Land, the pack-in title with the Premium bundle, was the top-selling Wii U game of the year, with 2.33 million copies, followed closely by New Super Mario Bros. U at 2.01 million copies.
As for the previous generation of hardware, the DS family of systems sold just 2.15 million units in 2012, but new release Pokémon Black and White 2 drove 7.63 million copies, making it Nintendo's biggest selling game of the entire year across all platforms. The Wii, meanwhile, sold 3.53 million units.
I don't get the NSMB2/NSMBWU dislike. Love them. Okay, I get that people think they're too similar and safe, but they're what I want. I remember back before the original DS game when it seemed like Mario sidescrollers were a thing of the past.
'New Super Mario Bros. 2 achieved the highest sales numbers of the year with 5.96 million copies sold.'
Bummer.
The best seller was going to be a 3DS game because of the vastly higher install base, and it was kind of a down year for first party 3DS games. Really, it was between it, Kid Icarus and Paper Mario, so it's not at all surprising NSMB2 was the winner.
'New Super Mario Bros. 2 achieved the highest sales numbers of the year with 5.96 million copies sold.'How dare people enjoy videogames?.. The nerve of them!
Bummer.
Really, it was between it, Kid Icarus and Paper Mario, so it's not at all surprising NSMB2 was the winner.
Nintendo also published Mario Tennis Open and Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask in 2012, and minor titles like Crosswords Plus
I don't get the NSMB2/NSMBWU dislike. Love them. Okay, I get that people think they're too similar and safe, but they're what I want. I remember back before the original DS game when it seemed like Mario sidescrollers were a thing of the past.
I don't get it either. Maybe they're upset by the "New" in the title.
The way I see it, the 3D Mario titles are where we see fresh and insane ideas, much like trying out an exciting new menu item we've never had before at a restaurant. And the NSMB titles are where we can get our "comfort food". Sure, it's familiar, but still very enjoyable and sometimes, just what we need.
Of course it wouldn't, but it would cost significant additional resources to make such a game, and that's resources that they would rather spend on experimental projects elsewhere, like developing unique GamePad concepts for Nintendo Land. With a company like Nintendo, who puts a lot of cash into R&D, brainstorming and creating hardware and software ideas, many of which never see the light of day, it's practical in some cases to build upon an established engine and established gameplay elements, such as with their new 2D Mario game.
I'm not defending this practice, which is obviously business-orientated more than anything, but when they've got the really creative Mario projects like Galaxy and 3D Land going along concurrently with the NSMB series, I'm okay with the latter playing it safe. The 'comfort food' analogy is a good one.
I'm not defending this practice, which is obviously business-orientated more than anything, but when they've got the really creative Mario projects like Galaxy and 3D Land going along concurrently with the NSMB series, I'm okay with the latter playing it safe. The 'comfort food' analogy is a good one.
I'm assuming these are just shipped figures, right? That might explain why they cut the forecast for this quarter so drastically: for example, it makes sense if they flooded the channels, but it's illogical to expect sales to drop off so dramatically from their initial expectations if they actually sold 3 million Wii U's to customers.
I'm assuming these are just shipped figures, right? That might explain why they cut the forecast for this quarter so drastically: for example, it makes sense if they flooded the channels, but it's illogical to expect sales to drop off so dramatically from their initial expectations if they actually sold 3 million Wii U's to customers.
Sony uses shipped numbers, Nintendo uses sold numbers.
Sony uses shipped numbers, Nintendo uses sold numbers.This particular numbers ARE shipped.
