Nintendo has released that, for its first week of release, Super Mario Galaxy sold 500,000 copies in the US alone.
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"Super Mario Galaxy is an embarrassment. It's an embarrassment for platform games. It's an embarrassment for adventure games. It's an embarrassment for Nintendo and an embarrassment for the Wii. What have we all been playing at in the ten years since Super Mario 64 came out? This is what gaming ought to be like."
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Rumor Control: Super Mario Galaxy
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"demonstrates the difference between a good game & a great game: attention to detail and reliable, consistent game rules. The worlds challenge the assumptions of a platformer, but the new rules always operate consistently. There are no cheap sections of memorization. Intuition, logic, and reactions win the day. Excellent reactions, mind you Galaxy is unforgiving at times, like the best classic Mario games. Anyone can beat Galaxy, but mastery demands genuine skill."
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The full version of the game has been shipped to stores around the US for use in demo kiosks.
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In a November 20 press release, Nintendo states that after one week of sales, GameRankings.com lists Super Mario Galaxy as the top-rated game of all time, as well as Metacritic calculating a score of 98/100.
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Between saving the princess, racing go karts, saving the princess, playing tennis, and of course, saving the princess, it's a wonder he has any free time at all. As Mario's adventures are among some of the finest videogames ever made, and Super Mario Galaxy is certainly no exception. But this time the stakes have been raised, not only has the princess been kidnapped, the entire universe is in danger.
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ThesimExchange analyst Jesse Divnich is presenting exclusive Gamasutra analysis of January's hardware and software trends, using data from The simExchange, NPD, IGN GamerMetrics and GameTrailers. The third installment compares last month's sales predictions and results for Super Mario Galaxy and Call of Duty 4.
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Super Mario Galaxy begins with an atypically dramatic prologue, fireballs raining down from Bowser's flying cartoon clipper ships at night. Toad's are frantically trying to avoid being burned alive. It's heavy stuff. You soon move on to the real meat, introduced to the Lumas, a race of cutesy star people, and their "mama", Rosalina...
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"Purchase your copy of the game that will make you dust off your Wii (in-store) from Toys "R" Us and you'll be rewarded with a $25 dollar gift card."
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