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New Super Mario Bros. 2 leads Nintendo’s approach to dispensing full retail games via the 3DS eSHop. However, the game has taken Siliconera 46 minutes to download, and it’s only 340MB.

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Nintendo has announced that it sold 12 million total hardware units in the US during 2011, marking the fifth year in a row it has accomplished such a feat. This includes more than 4.5 million units of Wii, more than 4 million 3DS systems, and over 3.4 million units of NDS systems.

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Nintendo has dropped the suggested retail price of DS Lite to $99.99 and it has also announced that Mario games will be re-boxed for that customers can easily identify them.

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ELSPA’s announced that Wii Sports Resort and Professor Layton and the Curious Village were the top-selling Wii and DS games, respectively, last year in the UK.

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Famitsu’s reporting that Super Mario Bros. Wii has sold 936,734 units in its first week, beating Super Smash Bros. Brawl, which sold 816,000 titles in the same time-frame.

According to Sinobi, the game managed 422,000 units in its first day.

Hot banana. Thanks, Andriasang and Kotaku.

Guess what? Modern Warfare 2 stays No.1 at the UK charts, although it did get a 32% sales drop.

The top three is rounded off by Assassin’s Creed II and New Super Mario Bros.

Deja vu?

Nothing much happening other then that.

Find the full top ten below.

Remember that whole Demo Play thing that had hardcore Mario masters up in arms a couple months ago? Well, as it turns out, it might not be that big of a deal. According to a Nintendo of Europe product listing, Demo Play’s just a gentle push in the right direction – not an autopilot.

“New Super Mario Bros. Wii is also the first Nintendo game to feature a dynamic help system, which allows you to access a mode showing how a level can be completed if you are stuck. The best thing about this mode is that you are free to jump into the action you’re watching on screen at any time,” reads the listing.

Bottom line: you still have to do all the legwork. Fortunately, if you want to watch Mario do his hopping and bopping without your input, you’ve still got the animated classic that is the Super Mario Brothers Super Show to fall back on. Thank goodness for that.

Thanks, Siliconera.

Take a look at this. It was shot inside the Nintendo E3 conference, which is due to start in 35 minutes.

Now, take a look at this. That’s the Nintendo booth on the E3 showfloor.

What could it all mean? Watch out liveblog to find out. Nearly there.

Nintendo’s announced red and blue DS bundles for the Black Friday sales, as you can see on Gamasutra.

The red one’s got a big ‘M’ on it, whih probably makes it worth buying. Unless you’re waiting for a DSi.

Red comes with New Super Mario Bros., blue comes with Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day. Both cost $150.

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