New Super Mario Bros tops 1.2 million units in Japan

The DS continues to dominate both software and hardware sales in Japan, with New Super Mario Bros selling over 1.2 million units in its first two weeks at retail, and driving DS Lite hardware sales of over 420,000 units.

Nintendo shipped a million units of New Super Mario Bros to stores across Japan for its May 25th launch, and almost 900,000 of those had sold out by the end of the month - with a further 330,000 units being sold in the first week of June, according to the latest figures from Media Create.

The success of the game means that there are now seven DS titles in the top ten software ranking in Japan, five of which have sold over a million units - with the various Brain Training titles, along with Animal Crossing: Wild World, all continuing to sell strongly.

In hardware terms, the DS Lite sold 285,000 units in the week that Mario launched, and 135,000 the following week - bringing overall sales of the redesigned handheld to just over 2 million units since it launched earlier this year, complemented by almost 870,000 units of the original version of the DS.