Super Mario Brothers dethroned as best seller
It was bound to happen sooner or later, so don’t feel bad. Can you guess what game dethroned good ol’ Mario? Here’s a hint:
Well, it’s not much of a hint since the video turns into a dead giveaway ten seconds after it starts. Hey, at least you know what game toppled Super Mario Brothers as the best selling video game of all time.
Here’s an excerpt from Yahoo! Games’ Ben Silverman’s story “Wii Sports is best-selling game ever”:
According to game-tracking website VGChartz, sales of Nintendo’s pop-culture phenom Wii Sports have surpassed those of legendary Super Mario Bros., making the breakout Wii title the best-selling video game of all time. And it only took two years and two months to do it.
The data is based on cumulative worldwide sales figures ending the week of December 27, 2008, which indicate that lifetime sales of Wii Sports have exceeded Mario’s staggering 40.24 million units.
Hey, at least Mario still tops the charts, particularly the list of the best-selling video game franchises at 201 million.
For more Wii-related goodies, check out Wii News Daily, another great b5media Technology Channel blog.
I forsee this one getting taken over quite quickly. I saw a commercial for a game you can “play with your butt.” Raving rabbits?
With a marketing scheme like that american audiences are going to eat it up.
While most americans are morbidly obese, even more of us are just plain moribid… (myself included)