Super Mario Galaxy's 4 Years - Over One Million Wii Owners, Over 50 Million Hours Played

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Super Mario Galaxy was released on November 12, 2007.  The game was developed by Nintendo EAD Tokyo, and of course published by Nintendo.

Super Mario Galaxy received an "Everyone" ESRB rating with "Mild Cartoon Violence" listed as content for gamers and parents to be aware of.

The game released with a MSRP of $49.99, and for nearly 4 years was sold brand new to millions of Wii owners at $49.99.  In August of this year, Nintendo announced it was adding Super Mario Galaxy to the Nintendo Selects titles.  On August 28, Super Mario Galaxy joined the Nintendo Selects titles and became available for just $19.99 brand new.

Exactly how many hours has Super Mario Galaxy been played?  Well, with November 12 marking the game's 4 year anniversary on the Wii, let's take a look!

The Wii's Super Mario Battle - 2D versus 3D

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     Super Mario Galaxy(SMG) was released on November 12, 2007 for the Wii.  The game brought Wii owners a brand new 3D Mario adventure in a galaxy that might be far away, but it had a lot of characters Mario fans were familiar with, and it was the first new Mario platforming game for the Wii system.
     New Super Mario Bros. Wii(NSMBW) was released on November 15, 2009 for the Wii.  While the game didn't boast full 3D environments, or super crazy gravity effects necessarily, it brought Wii owners a Mario game that hearkened back to the NES and SNES days of Mario console games, and it could be played by up to 4 players simultaneously.

     With Super Mario Galaxy having been released more than 2 years before New Super Mario Bros. Wii, it would be safe to assume that Super Mario Galaxy would have more game-play hours reported right?  Wrong!  Let's take a look!

Mario's Super Galaxies

Quick Brew Info:
     The last we looked at data for both Super Mario Galaxy(SMG) and Super Mario Galaxy 2(SMG2) was back on July 13.
  
     SMG's play-time data represents approximately 1,058 days of data being reported, while SMG2's data is for about 135 reported days; since the release dates for both games.  The data below will be compared to the data from July 12, to the data captured on October 4.

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Approx. Number of Players Reporting Data:
     Super Mario Galaxy has 1,470,689 players reporting play-time data, on the Wii's Nintendo Channel.
     Super Mario Galaxy 2 now has 196,257 players their play-time data, since the July 12 data.

Player Increase Since Last Report:
     Super Mario Galaxy has increased by 70,704 more players reporting data, over the 85 days since July 12.
     Super Mario Galaxy 2 has increased by 95,622 more players reporting play-time data, since July 12.

"Total" Game-Play Hours Reported & Increased:
     Super Mario Galaxy now has 45,923,590 Total Hours of game-play reported, an increase of 3,006,560 hours.
     SMG's average hours "per person" have increased by 34 minutes, with an average now of 31 Hrs 14 Minutes.
     The average game-play session for Super Mario Galaxy players is just over 1 Hour 53 Minutes.

     Super Mario Galaxy 2 has 5,145,891 Total Hours reported, an increase of 3,046,423 hours in the 85 days since the July 12 data.
     SMG2's average hours "per person" have increased by 5 Hours 21 Minutes, now with an average of 26 Hours 14 Minutes.
     The average game-play session for Super Mario Galaxy 2 is just over 2 Hours 19 Minutes.

Sale Ranks & Advertised Prices:
     Super Mario Galaxy's Amazon.com sale rank is #131, and its current selling price is $40.54.
     Super Mario Galaxy 2's Amazon.com sale rank is #43, and is currently selling for $49.95.

Review Score Averages:
     Super Mario Galaxy's review score average is the same as when I showed the data back in July.  SMG's review score average is 97.46%, based on 77 reviews, on GameRankings.com.
     Super Mario Galaxy 2's review score average is not the same, as it was in July.  SMG2's review score average is now 97.07%, based on 53 reviews on GameRankings.com.  SMG's new score is slightly lower than its 97.25% average from July, that was based on 51 reviews.

Here is how SMG and SMG2 have been reviewed on Amazon.com:

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Thoughts:
     I think it's interesting that Super Mario Galaxy is putting up game-play numbers relatively close to what Super Mario Galaxy 2 is.  I was thinking that SMG2 would be seeing significantly more game-play hours reported, over SMG, this close to its release still; but SMG2 only had 39,863 more "Total Hours", than SMG, gained/reported since the last report.

Questions:
     Did any of you pick up Super Mario Galaxy 2, or Super Mario Galaxy, over the summer and play through them?  If so, what did you think of either game?  I still only own Super Mario Galaxy, and it has been 2+ years since I have played through that one.

If anybody is interested in either Super Mario Galaxy or Super Mario Galaxy 2, you can see new and used prices for them on Amazon.com linked below:
 

Super Mario Galaxy & Super Mario Galaxy 2 Data

Quick Brew Info:
Super Mario Galaxy was released on November 12, 2007, with a MSRP of $49.99.
The first/last time I reported data for Super Mario Galaxy was on May 22; you can read that post HERE.
Super Mario Galaxy 2 was released on May 23, 2010, also with a MSRP of $49.99.
The last time I reported data for Super Mario Galaxy 2 was on June 8; you can read that post HERE.

The data below for Super Mario Galaxy represents approximately 974 days of reporting after its release, while Super Mario Galaxy 2's data represents approximately 51 days of reporting since it released.

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Number of Players Reporting Data:
Super Mario Galaxy has approximately 1,399,985 players reporting their play-time data, on the Wii's Nintendo Channel.
Super Mario Galaxy 2 has approximately 100,635 players reporting play-time data.

Player Increase Since Last Report:
Super Mario Galaxy has increased by 59,532 more players reporting play-time data, since the May 22 report.
Super Mario Galaxy 2 has increased by 71,234 more players reporting data, since the June 8 report.

"Total" Game-Play Hours Reported & Increased(since last report):
Super Mario Galaxy now has 42,917,030 Total Hours reported, an increase of 2,552,450 hours.
Super Mario Galaxy 2 now has 2,099,468 Total Hours reported, an increase of 1,740,859 hours.

Amazon.com Sale Rank & Advertised Price:
Super Mario Galaxy's Amazon.com sale rank is #80 and its current selling price is $40.54.
Super Mario Galaxy 2's Amazon.com sale rank is #7 and its current selling price is $46.99.

GameRankings.com Review Score Average:
Super Mario Galaxy's current review score average is 97.46%, based on 77 reviews.
Super Mario Galaxy's review score average has slightly increased from the May report's percentage of 97.28%.
Interestingly, GameRankings.com has removed four review scores from its average since May, when it then  had 81 reviews.

Super Mario Galaxy 2's current review score average is 97.25%, based on 51 reviews.
On June 8, Super Mario Galaxy 2's review score average was 97.36%, based on 40 reviews; so its average has decreased slightly, while adding eleven reviews to its average.

Thoughts:
I find it interesting that Super Mario Galaxy 2's average hours "Per person" are around 20 hours of game-play.
I do not own Super Mario Galaxy 2, and I have not played it; so I don't know how many "Total" hours it should take a person to complete.
If it is around 30 hours, I wonder if that's where it will end up averaging like Super Mario Galaxy is right now; or if people will go back and spend many more hours collecting all the stars and replaying the levels.

Questions:
If you have played and beaten the main campaign in Super Mario Galaxy 2, have you found yourself going back to play the game again?  If you have collected all the stars already, about how many hours did it take you?


If you are interested in either Super Mario Galaxy or Super Mario Galaxy 2, you can see new & some used prices on Amazon.com below:
  

Super Mario Galaxy Play-Time Data/Thoughts

Super Mario Galaxy was released on Monday, November 12, 2007.
Tomorrow(5-23-10), Super Mario Galaxy 2 will be released.

About 2 weeks ago, I put Super Mario Galaxy back in our Wii, after a very long absence from playing it.
My wife started her own campaign, and I played using the second Wii Remote.  We've only played that one day, so far.
Here's a picture of our total play-time with Super Mario Galaxy:

(Our Super Mario Galaxy play-time)

I received the original Super Mario Galaxy as a Christmas gift, in 2007.

I collected enough stars for the final boss battle, and once I finished the final boss battle in Super Mario Galaxy, I never went back to find any other stars; or even attempt another play-through of the game.

For some reason, I didn't enjoy Super Mario Galaxy, like I enjoyed Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Sunshine.  I don't really know why this was.

I thought perhaps it was my attitude when playing the game, so instead of trading it off; I kept it thinking I would play through the game again one day, from beginning to end.

After looking at our data(shown above), I thought, "I wonder how it compares to the 'average' data reported on the Nintendo Channel?"

Here is Super Mario Galaxy's play-time data, review score average, and current Amazon.com sale rank.

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Approx. Number of Players Reporting Data:

Super Mario Galaxy has approximately 1,340,453 players reporting play-time data in North America.

Total Game-Play Hours/Sessions Reported:

Super Mario Galaxy has 40,364,580 Total Hours reported played, with 30 Hours 7 Minutes being the average play-time per person reporting data.  Our average play-time is only 22 hours 53 Minutes.  My initial completion of the game had a play-time of just over 20 hours.

The total reported number of play sessions is 21,219,371, with an average of 15.83 sessions per person reporting data.  As the first picture showed, we've only contributed 8 play sessions to the total number reported.  One of those play sessions was from my wife starting her own game, so that means I finished the game in seven play sessions.

Questions:
If you played the original Super Mario Galaxy, how did you like it compared to other Mario games you may have played?  How is your play-time data hours compared to the average per person?
Were you a completionist, and go back to collect all the stars in the game; or were you like me and collected just enough stars for the final boss battle?

Last, but not least, do you plan on purchasing Super Mario Galaxy 2?
Right now, I'm holding off on purchasing it, but do plan on attempting to play it one day.

If you are interested in Super Mario Galaxy, or Super Mario Galaxy 2, you can see prices on Amazon.com below: