Mario & Sonic team up to sell five million
by Candace Savino 
{ Mar 5th 2008 at 5:00PM }
If you didn't believe that putting both the words "Mario" and "Sonic" in the title of a video game was a viable enough marketing strategy, you'd be wrong. The DS and Wii versions of Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games have sold over five million copies combined; we're sure you don't need us to tell you that five million is a lot. Sales will probably only climb much higher when the Beijing Olympics take place later this year.At the very least, we bet that this ensures a Winter Olympics rendition in two years. We wouldn't mind if that happened, but this blogger's stance is firm -- no biathlon, no sale.
[Via NeoGAF]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Sonic_13 @ Mar 6th 2008 12:23AM
Congrats to both Mario and Sonic on this accomplishment!
Sonic_13 @ Mar 6th 2008 12:23AM
I wouldn't mind finding out how many of the 5 million copies sold are for the Wii and how many are for the DS.
It would be interesting to see which is the better selling version.
Barbara McCrea @ Apr 7th 2008 7:36PM
they will make it easily to 5 mill.