Mark Androvich
21:44 (BST)
17/03/2008
Related articles
Brawl is Nintendo's fastest-selling game ever
First week sales at a rate of 120 per minute
Nintendo has announced that Super Smash Bros. Brawl for the Wii has sold more than 1.4 million copies in the US in just one week - making it the fastest-selling game in Nintendo's history.
Brawl sold more than 874,000 on March 9, and has sold at a rate of more than 120 units per minute between that launch date and March 16.
"Super Smash Bros. Brawl has made the leap from video game to cultural phenomenon," said Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America's executive vice president of sales & marketing.
"Game reviewers and the public alike praise its fun game play and extensive, inventive content."
The previous game in the series, Super Smash Bros. Melee, became the best-selling Nintendo GameCube game of all time with more than 7 million copies sold worldwide.
To view other users comments, you must be logged in to a GamesIndustry.biz Network account.
Nintendo
PS3 sells over 4 million units in Japan
As Wii tops 9 million sales since launch in 2006
NPD: Nintendo hails hardware record
DS handheld shifts 1.7 million units in a month to break its own record
NPD: PlayStation 3 sales dip below Xbox 360
Hardware revenue drops over 13 per cent year-on-year