New Super Mario: Big in Japan
by Ludwig Kietzmann 
{ May 30th 2006 at 4:30PM }
It's easy when you're big in Japan. Nintendo recently announced at a Japanese retailer meeting that New Super Mario Bros. sold through over 900,000 copies in its first 4 days of availability. Not a huge surprise, but another indicator that even Nintendo benefits from everything old being new again. Other successes in Japan, where the Eastern seas so blue, were Tetris DS which sold 800,000 in 4 weeks and of course, the DS Lite itself. In the month of April alone, Nintendo shifted 950,000 Lites. It looks like this whole "double screen" thing is going to work out for them after all.
[Apologies for the Alphaville lyrics used throughout this post. Thanks Feek!]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
OyoyoY123 @ May 30th 2006 5:31PM
i find that picuture really really really offensive.....
Kefka @ May 30th 2006 6:06PM
Oh gosh someone is offended on the interweb! Better take it down...;)
Sense @ May 31st 2006 8:40AM
And here I was thinking "big in Japan" was a Tom Waits reference :)
zing @ May 31st 2006 9:44AM
oh noees, the offended guy must be american.
Aaron @ Jun 2nd 2006 6:59AM
All I see is a giant Mario over a building... I don't see anything offensive here, unless you had a bad past with the shades 'Black' and 'White'.