Nintendo has confirmed that, based on figures from the NPD Group, Super Smash Bros. Brawl has sold over 3 million copies in the United States alone. Coupled with the fact that Brawl has already outsold both of its Smashing predecessors in Japan, it looks like Super Smash Bros. Brawl is on pace to outsell the lifetime figures for Melee within only a few months. Remember that Melee is the GameCube’s best-selling game of all-time, selling over 7 million copies worldwide.

Hopefully the game’s release in Europe and Australia later next month will help speed up the process. You can read Nintendo’s full response to the NPD Group’s report on last month’s sales after the break.

NINTENDO’S WII SITS ATOP APRIL U.S. SALES

May 15, 2008

Wii™ emerged as the top-selling console in April, according to the independent NPD Group, which tracks U.S. video game sales. Wii sold more than 714,000 units in April alone, bringing its lifetime sales in the United States to more than 9.5 million.

“Wii sales were buoyed in part by the strong launch of Mario Kart Wii, which sold more than 1.1 million units,” said Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America’s executive vice president of Sales & Marketing. “Our belief in appealing to a broad, diverse audience of players continues to resonate with consumers, and we look forward to continuing our outreach to an expanded audience with the launch of Wii Fit next week.”

Other Nintendo highlights from April’s NPD report include:

• Mario Kart® Wii finished as the No. 2 game of the month.
  
• Six of the top 10 games of the month are for Nintendo systems: Mario Kart Wii (No. 2), Wii Play™ (No. 4), Super Smash Bros.® Brawl (No. 5), Pokémon® Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness (No. 7), Pokémon® Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time (No. 8) and Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (No. 9).
• Super Smash Bros. Brawl crossed the 3 million sales mark in the United States.
• Wii and Nintendo DS™ again finished as the two top-selling hardware systems.

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