SPOnG can't decide if it's shocked or not that Japanese gamers bought an estimated 480,000 copies of New Super Mario Bros for their Nintendo DS consoles in the first day the game went on sale. This means that a million units might well be snapped up inside the first week.

We dread to think what carnage will occur when Super Mario Galaxy launches and it's interesting to note that Final Fantasy III DS, acording to Japanese sources, will be produced in greater numbers than New Super Mario Bros at launch - good news for the DS and any proponent of content over technology.

New Super Mario Bros is released across Europe on June 30.