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New Super Mario Bros. Wii is a digital game released in November of 2009 by Nintendo for the Wii gaming console.
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New Super Mario Bros. Wii was released in November of 2009 by Nintendo. Nintendo created the game for the Nintendo Wii gaming console, and it was a sequel to the New Super Mario Bros. game released in 2006 for Nintendo DS. The future iterations of the series include New Super Mario Bros. 2 (2012, Nintendo 3DS) and New Super Mario Bros. U (2012, Wii U). The game follows suit of the other Mario games, having Mario as the main character, with Luigi, Yellow Toad, and Blue Toad available as options for multiplayer mode. The game was first released in North America, Australia, and Europe in November, then in Japan a month later. In the USA, New Super Mario Bros. Wii sold 1,390,000 units in November 2009, making it the third best-selling game of the month behind the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2...
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Ridgely, E.E., Şengün, S. (2022). New Super Mario Bros. Wii, An Analysis. In: Lee, N. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computer Graphics and Games. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08234-9_432-1
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