Galaxy selling like hot cakes

Galaxy selling like hot cakes

George Harrison the Vice President of Marketing at Nintendo has revealed that Super Mario Galaxy has gotten off to a great start, being the fastest selling Wii game so far.

In its first week at retail in the US, Galaxy has sold over 500,000 copies.

"Super Mario Galaxy had the strongest one-week debut of any Wii title to date and has also become the best selling Mario game ever in its first week".

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SSB4LIFE said:

Holy. That's amazing. I'm getting this game soon. Yay.

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Scooby Jew said:

Well, this is all not only because it's a great title, but also because of the fantastic reviews it's received. I can't exactly say that I'm surprised, but I can't say that I was fully expecting this either. We'll just say that this is great and leave it there.

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wiiman said:

I got it and it is incredible, at the start it is easy but then it gets very tough. Don't expect an easy short game.

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Aeth said:

Well of course it did, it has Mario on a whole new adventure. Why wouldn't it be a success?

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BrothaZ said:

Wow that's pretty good, competing against mario 64.

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feb10isfartheraway said:

Wow.

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insultman911 said:

Wow, just wow.

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DragonFoxCoon said:

Natch. Come February, SSBB will sell just as fast, if not faster.

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Keranu said:

Wii's World likes hot cakes, doesn't it?

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Sion said:

Nothing less from Super Mario.

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wiiboy101 said:

It's selling very well, but to see glitch fest generic trash like assasin's creed selling well completely defeats the idea of gaming being better, same old generic bug fest games with long load times and outdated gameplay being consumed by x360 and ps3 fanboys. "forgive them lord they know not what they do". A gamer buys galaxy, a sony brainwashed teen buys assasin's creed. Sorry sony fans that's just fact.

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Quartz said:

Holy crap. Nice.

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Hey said:

Wow, best selling Mario game ever, after a week. Or would that be a "wiik?".

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Dark Star said:

I knew this would sell well, but this is better than I expected. I guess this is what happens when the Nintendo system is on top and the game is getting perfect or almost perfect reviews.

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wiicloud9 said:

Now compare this with sales from Halo 3, The Orange Box, and, what was the other one, Metroid Prime?

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insultman911 said:

4 hours ago I was in the south center mall and figured out this e for all. One of the games were mario galaxy. I played it and beat the piranha dino and some dude was recording me playing.

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YoshLee said:

HA HA now I'm really glad I got the game early.

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B Darius said:

Yep. And I got mine.

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frogman said:

Man, I hope it doesn't become so rare that one can't pick it up for Christmas.

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Nintendoof said:

I'm not surprised.

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Wii Freak said:

Sure that's a lot. But brawl sold 500000 in a day.

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davyt 0247 said:

Got it, absolutely love it. But best selling Mario game in it's first WEEK! Holy Cow.

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TruBlu said:

I love ya Mario, keep making awesome games for us to enjoy.

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insultman911 said:

I already beat the game.

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