The new Super Mario Bros. Wii game hit 10 million sales in the U.S., which Nintendo announced in a tweet Wednesday.
Wahoo! New Super Mario Bros. Wii just hit 10 million copies sold. That’s a lot of penguin suits! pic.twitter.com/zHZpTBKXJS
— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) November 20, 2014
The 2009 game was named by IGN one of the top 10 Wii games of all time. It also made their list of the 125 best Nintendo games of all time.
This milestone is a surprising turn of events for some analysts and the media who thought Nintendo was dead.
"There hasn't been much good news to report regarding Nintendo's financial situation since the company's historic annual loss way back in the 2011 to 2012 period," Michael Pachter, a video game analyst for Wedbush Securities, said to Fortune. "That may be changing. Strong sales of new Wii U and 3DS software helped raise the company to a surprising quarterly profit of 24.2 billion yen (about $224 million) in net income for the three months ending September 2014. That's quite a turnaround after a loss of over eight billion yen (about $74.2 million) in the same period last year."
Patcher added that he believes the Wii U, which had a slow start when it was launched, will sell 4 million copies worldwide this holiday season.
In July 2013 the Wii sold over 100 million units, beating the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.
