Super Mario Galaxy Sells Over 500k In It’s First Week In The U.S.
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007America has gone totally gay for Super Mario Galaxy. It sold over 500,000 making it the best first week for a Mario game ever in America.
Nintedo press release:
REDMOND, Wash., Nov. 20, 2007 – Could Super Mario Galaxy™ be the best video game of all time?
If you ask critics and consumers, the answer is a resounding yes. Reviewers for video game and mainstream media alike are responding with high marks to the boundless sense of wonder and fun the game brings to both experienced and novice players.
Independent review-tracking site GameRankings.com now lists Super Mario Galaxy for Nintendo’s Wii™ system as the best-reviewed game of all time, and another review-tracking site, Metacritic.com, lists Super Mario Galaxy as having “Universal Acclaim,” with a score of 98 out of 100.
More on what reviewers are saying:
GameSpot.com: Super Mario Galaxy “has tons of appeal for both the less experienced player and the longtime gamer. … If ever there were a must-own Wii game, Super Mario Galaxy is it.”
Yahoo!: “… you’d be hard pressed to find (a game) as genuinely enjoyable as Mario’s latest. If you own a Wii, you should own this, too.”
1UP.com – “Galaxy proves that Mario matters just as much today as he did 25 years ago, and that makes him one of a kind in this medium. But don’t play Galaxy simply because Mario is the timeless godfather of gaming. No, play Galaxy because it’s fantastic.”
“Super Mario Galaxy had the strongest one-week debut of any Wii game to date and has also become the best-selling Mario title ever in its first week, with U.S. sales of more than 500,000, based on internal sales figures,” says George Harrison, Nintendo of America’s senior vice president of marketing and corporate communications. “It makes an easy gift choice as the holiday shopping season kicks off.”
