Reggie Called it: Mario Stomps Modern Warfare 2 – Video

*Video of Reggie’s NSMB Wii pledge:




November 5th, 2009 during a Spike TV television broadcast, Nintendo president Reggie Fils-Aime predicted that the total sales of New Super Mario Bros. Wii would out sell Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (on one platform) by the time January 2010 NPD data was publicly released.

December NPD data:

New Super Mario Bros. Wii – 2.82 million.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (360) – 1.63 million
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (PS3) – 1.12 million.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (360 + PS3) – 2.75 million.

We’ll still have to wait another few weeks or so to get all of January’s 2010 NPD data, but it looks like Reggie might be the right guy to have with you when rolling the dice in Atlantic City.



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  • Sadclown

    Yeah this is a pretty worthless post since it doesn’t include the November data (Reggie was talking about total sales for the year)

    Up until Jan. 9th New Super Mario has sold 4,749,721 copies. MW2 for 360 sold 6,153,887 units, on PS3 it moved 3,258,228 units. Was Reggie right in that it would top 1 console sales for MW2? sure. Was it the 360? no. And no way was it both consoles combined like your figures seem to represent.

  • hey_suburbia

    good point sad clown. We’ll have to wait until the official numbers come out for January 2010 to make any official claim. I guess the idea that he would even challenge Modern Warfare 2 and be this close was worthy of the post. You are correct that currently it is still behind in total sales, but for the month of December it moved a lot more and assuming the trend remains as such it should be a close finish. I do appreciate Reggie’s gamer enthusiasm overall. What mouth piece for a corporation admits he enjoys a competitors product? Thanks for the comment.

  • http://wiinintendo.net/ hattrick

    @Sadclown – Please refer to this thread for more (overall) numbers.
    http://www.wiinintendo.net/2010/01/15/new-smb-wii-surpasses-modern-warfare-2-on-ps3/