How much is a million? Super Smash Bros. Brawl outsells everything
Super Smash Bros. Brawl has rocketed past the million mark within a fortnight of its Japanese release. We’re used to hearing numbers, of course, some of them very large numbers, but let’s take a moment to reflect on what those round-the-corner-queueing, inventory-swallowing Japanese consumers have managed collectively consume in the time since the 31st of January.
A million hours ago, Queen Victoria was still alive, and still had sixteen years left to go. There have been fewer than a million days since the birth of Christ, and very possibly since the destruction of the first Death Star. If you were to work for £6 an hour in an average working week, it would take you nearly a century to become a millionaire, and that’s assuming you didn’t buy any games. Or eat.
It also means that there’s just under one copy of Super Smash Bros. Brawl for every twenty Wiis shipped, and it hasn’t even been released outside Japan, and this of course makes it the Wii’s fastest selling title so far. At last, things are looking up for Nintendo.
[via Kotaku]
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