Super Mario Bros. Wonder Is Officially The "Fastest-Selling" Super Mario Title Ever

I haven't bought it yet but soon! This will be perfect to play with my kids over Christmas break.

Wonderful game (pun intended) with so much that is new and innovative that it makes me wonder (pun not intended) If the next generation Switch is really around the corner. Companies usually save such pleasant surprises for new hardware.

Bought it just based on reviews. It’s the most exciting 2d Mario (imo) since the SNES. It’s phenomenal.

That said, I hope Nintendo will actually add more accessibility features and at least let me remove the multiplayer “feature” where party control shifts to whoever got the most points in the most recent level. And I would love to see journalists call for more accessibility when they get N on record.

It's interesting this is fastest selling Super Mario game ever yet Scarlet and Violet sold 10 million in a single weekend. Society 😔

Well-deserved! Absolutely loved every second I played. I don't doubt it'll be my favorite of the 2D Marios when the dust settles.

Very well deserved start. Wonder is a late Switch release, but I think it can still sell over 20 million copies lifetime.

I expected nothing less. Regardless of this particular entry's placement on the all time greatest Super Mario games, the franchise has only gotten more popular. This statistic doesn't surprise me in the least.

I will buy the game very late, maybe 2 - 3 years later unless I found the secondhand game.

Not really shocking to see it sell well. But great to see none the less. Mario Wonder was such a fun game, I loved every minute of it.

Just 100% the game (that final challenge is the hardest thing ever), definitely deserves the high sales

But but but, Johnedwin said sales were very poor…..?

Look its just ok really.... me and the kids had fun but 3d world just eats wonder alive..

Bought it day one, I wasn't 100% sure on it for the first level or 2, couldn't get my head around the levels going all trippy.

The more I played it though the more I fell in love with it. As your review states it really is the best 2D Mario game since Super Mario World.

Regarding how fast it's sold..... I guess having an install base of over 132 million Switch's will help with that

It's no Wonder why the way I see it! 😉

Excellent early numbers, especially for a Mario title which continue to sell for a while.

I adore this game. So glad they tried so many new things with it. It's just distilled joy.

I'm... still on the fence with it. Levels feeling a bit on the short side, seeming to spend as much time navigating the overworld and the poofy Poplins as I do in a proper level.

It's obviously still a very good game, but I'm not sure I'm finding it any better than any of the NSMB games yet, and yes, I am not over the new voices and the departure of Charles Martinet. The voice work is OK in Wonder, but it doesn't give me that spark that I'm used to.

Just another nail for the argument that TotK success is thanks to the Switch success… not because it is an overall good Zelda game.
Every switch game sells on crack…. Doesn’t matter what it is:
Metroid, Kirby, Mario, Pikmin, Animal Crossing, Mario Kart, Smash Bros… they have all sold better than it’s predecessors thanks to the console they are in

Bring back classic Zelda and let the open world trend in gaming die!

I 99 percent finished the game, and did a first play through just to get to the credits. I think I’m over 2d Mario really. It’s a super polished product and fun but not mind blowing at all. Still don’t like the elephant, the badges don’t do a lot for me, those puzzle box hidden levels would be better if they didn’t exist at all! But if I was 10 I would probably love the game. Got a nice 20 or so hours of play and I’m sure will play next year xxx

@Yoshif3 That's a reach, a lot of the games are selling better because of Switch but BOTW outsold series 3D Zelda historically failed to like 3D Mario and Pokemon.

And proportionally TOTK already sold about 66% of BOTWs lifetime sales. Whereas Majoras Mask and Skyward Sword sold less than half Ocarina and Twilight Princess.

@HammerKirby
Goes to show how much Mario relies on having very strong legs to attain huge sales.

what's the betting that Elephant Mario features in the next movie?

It is a wonderful game after all.

I’m a bit disappointed with it tbh.

Everything that touches Switch becomes the best-selling game ever in the franchise.

Come oooon! Bring on a new F-Zero already!!

I love Wonder, really havent enjoy a game so much since de SNES era
... but sadly too easy and finished 100% too soon...
It tells lots about a game that is worst con is that I need more of it!

@Yoshif3 the Switch's success out the gate was thanks to open world BotW, that launch was entirely bet on Zelda. At this point the console is flooded with releases, it's not like Wonder is the only choice for all the Switch owners. It's not even the only Mario game this year. Obviously you want to explain them away but the games are obviously selling because they're good.

If I was still a kid I know my parents would have held back the game until Xmas, so that's a surefire way to guarantee consistent sales.

132 million switches will sell a lot of games..

Considering it is the only new Mario title released when a system had over 130 million units sold I would hope it would be.
Maybe let’s look at the breakdowns of percentage of people that owned a system that bought a new Mario game and see where it stands. Technically the Wii had 7 million units in Dec of 07 and Galaxy sold over 1.4 million copies in the first month. That’s over 20% of people buying the game.
Wonder has only sold under 2% of the number of units out there. Even if t hits 10 million by the end of the year that is still under 10% of sales per switch.
Honestly it is probably ranking as one of the least selling Mario games compared to systems sold.

Oh this is going to sell like a dream in the holidays

Isn't it short and easy? I would have bought it by now but both those suggestions have put me off. I don't want 'Dark Souls' difficulty but I like a challenge.

@DdG1408 there are many variants to be taken into account here: at the beginning of the console's life, there is only a few AAA games to choose from compared 6 years later, not everyone who's bought a switch in the last 6 years remain an active user (the install base of 130 M is superestimated, there are drop outs and doubles), and the competition nowadays is fierce with next generation.
The data % of owners who owns a particular game is a biiiiiiiiig shot in the dark and tell us nothing, really.

I'm curious how Wonder's sales compare to the New series. Those games sell so well, and I feel like the style change for this game is a risk.

Honestly, it deserves it. This is such a great game and this is coming from someone who isn’t really into 2D platformers.

@Ellie-Moo Well, it’s easy until you play the special stages.

@Ellie-Moo

That depends on whether you want to 100% it or not, do every level, try to get all the collectibles, and so on. It never gets as challenging as, I don't know, Celeste. But it's not a total pushover either if you really want to complete everything, including the special and challenge stages. It's a lot like World in that sense.

@Mauzuri lol sorry I just thought it was interesting to point out. I'm not normally like that.

Please add more bosses to this game! Facing Bowser Jr. four times was fine because the battles were very fun and creative, but it seriously feels like a step down from the previous 2D Mario games which also had the Koopalings and Kamek. Worlds 3 and 5 have no boss at all, they could've broken the Bowser Jr. trend and had new bosses like facing Master Poplin at the end of World 3 or a cave monster holding the miner Poplins hostage at the bottom of World 5.

Adding DLC to the game like including new bosses or even new levels would be amazing and would bring this game up from a 9/10 to a 10/10 for me. I would pay just to have this be the perfect Mario game, seriously.

Completed the game. I enjoyed it a lot and it’s up there with the best of 2D Mario games but the game was lacking good bosses which is odd really considering the devs were given as much time as they needed to develop it and there’s nothing at all for beating the game.

I had fun with it the weekend it came out and got halfway though (plus a couple of Special levels), but I put it down and I've yet to come back to it. Definitely not better than Super Mario World in my opinion.

Great start and well deserved. My favorite game of the year so far and I've played and enjoyed pretty much all the big releases.

@Paulo Or the next system may be a SNW (Super Nintendo Switch) which can play all Switch games but upscaled or something like that. Which is why they still release so much for Switch. Its not exclusive

@TheImperfectInsider @Beaucine @Mauzuri

Thank you, that helps. I suppose a lot of Mario games aren't that tough really and even if this game is between five and ten hours, that's actually still longer than the original classic Mario games by some distance, even World.

Another game I am waiting to get when I get home. Keep on skipping any game play shown on social media to keep it fresh for when I get it

It's a pretty good Mario game. Although it cements for me that there is a gigantic gulf in quality between 2D and 3D Mario. Recent 3D Marios like 3D World and Odyssey are some of the best games I've ever played, whereas this feels second-rate compared to the recent DKC games, or even the recent Rayman games.

@KnightsTemplar Again, it's not just that Zelda games are selling better on Switch, it's how much better they're selling. You'll notice Mario Wonder isn't selling as fast as something like Pokemon, which TotK actually accomplished. The vast majority of Nintendo releases don't. Why is that? Zelda games tended to do between 5 - 10 million lifetime previously, sometimes across multiple releases in different console generations. TotK did 10 million in two days. It's nearly at 19 million copies sold now.