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Super Mario 3D Land, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword and Wii all see record-breaking sales

by rawmeatcowboy
28 November 2011
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- Super Mario 3D Land is the fastest selling portable Mario game in company history
- sold more than 500,000 units since launch
- The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword has sold 535,000 copies since its U.S. launch
- Skyward Sword is the fastest-selling Zelda game ever
- last week's 3DS sales tripled (by 325%)
- the week of Super Mario 3D Land's debut, sales rose 49% over the previous week
- Wii had its biggest Black Friday ever, selling more than 500,000 units just on Black Friday

"What this has been able to do is drive our Nintendo 3DS business in only eight months to surpass the full first year volume of the original DS and we still have the bulk of the holiday to go, and we still have the launch of Mario Kart 7 (out Sunday, Dec. 4) to continue driving our full-year sales on Nintendo 3DS. We know that Black Friday and that entire week is a key selling week and it is important for products like ours to have a jump in momentum and we were fortunate to see that. For us, it really was driven by unique and powerful software and what gives us confidence is that we still have more software to launch in the balance of this holiday period." - Reggie Fils-Aime

Reggie also has high hopes for Fortune Street in the states.

"Imagine a board game meeting a grow-your- business all done in a video context with Mario and other Nintendo characters, as well as characters from Square Enix. It's a very interesting very unqiue title. We think it is going to do quite well for us during the holiday."