Mario's latest big adventure has shot to the top of the Japanese games chart in its first week, shifting 250,000 copies - almost as many as the rest of the top ten put together. Wii.com has a fascinating interview with the dev team, conducted by Nintendo president, Satoru Iwata. Here, they reveal the idea for the game came from an old tech demo for the Gamecube, shown off at the Space World 2000 event and featuring a hundred Marios wandering around on a spherical landscape. So far it's got a metascore of 97, putting it above this year's other big-hitters, Bioshock (96), Orange Box (96), Call of Duty 4 (96) and Halo 3 (94).
Another interesting thing from the chart: there's an Xbox 360 title at number two! Ace Combat 6 has sold 77,000 copies. Apart from Wii Sports and Super Robot Wars Scramble Commander the 2nd, everything else is on DS.
(Via Gamesindustrybiz)
