Nintendo has announced that Super Mario Bros. Wonder is Europe's fastest-selling Super Mario game ever.
The company announced the statistic today on social media, though did not provide any concrete sales figures. We'll likely get those as part of a global sales update, or financial statement.
Regardless, it's a positive sign things have gone well for Elephant Mario and his warp pipe-stuffing chums - even if Nintendo's mascot couldn't quite beat Spider-Man 2 in the UK's boxed game chart on Monday.
To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings Super Mario Bros. Wonder in action.Watch on YouTubeHere in the UK, Wonder was Mario's third-biggest UK launch, behind a duo of other Switch titles: Super Mario Odyssey and Super Mario 3D All-Stars.
Wonder launched on Switch last Friday, 20th October. Eurogamer's Chris Donlan was blown away by the game, calling it an "endless cascade of ideas in a game that takes Mario to some wonderfully strange places" in Eurogamer's Super Mario Bros. Wonder review.
I spoke with Wonder's lead developers back at Gamescom, and discussed the challenges of making a new Super Mario sidescroller that still felt surprising and fresh for players - something Wonder excels at.
"As we were developing more and more side-scrolling Mario games, the challenge became that these kinds of secrets and surprises were more and more normalised to players," Super Mario Bros. Wonder director Shiro Mouri told me. "So I thought it'd be important to create a side-scrolling Mario that really fit the day and age that we live in now.
"You need to try harder to try and surprise these players."
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