Nearly five years after its first release, 2D platformer New Super Mario Bros. has become the first Nintendo DS game to sell over six million copies in Japan.
Nearly 900,000 of those sales came on the game's very first week of availability, back in May 2006, according to competing sales tracker Media Create. Since then, the game has become one of the industry's rare perennial sellers, bouncing up and down the country's weekly top sellers charts for nearly five years.
Through September 2010, Nintendo reports the game had sold more than 24 million copies worldwide, making it the best-selling game on the system and one of the top-selling games of all time.
