New Super Mario Bros. U

New Super Mario Bros. U
The 4 playable characters of the game are in the Acorn Plains world. Mario is jumping on Yoshi as they look to the camera. Luigi with a shocked expression is holding onto a Balloon Baby Yoshi trying to avoid a Piranha Plant. Blue Toad is holappears below.
Packaging artwork
Developer(s)Nintendo EAD
Publisher(s)Nintendo
Director(s)Masataka Takemoto
Producer(s)
Designer(s)
  • Shigeyuki Asuke
  • Daiki Iwamoto
  • Ryutaro Kanno
Programmer(s)Shiro Mouri
Artist(s)Masanobu Sato
Composer(s)
SeriesSuper Mario
Platform(s)Wii U
Nintendo Switch
ReleaseWii U
  • NA: November 18, 2012
  • PAL: November 30, 2012
  • JP: December 8, 2012
Nintendo Switch
  • WW: January 11, 2019
  • CHN: December 10, 2019
Genre(s)Platform
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

New Super Mario Bros. U[a] is a 2012 platform game developed and published by Nintendo as a launch title for the Wii U. The game is a sequel to New Super Mario Bros. Wii and is the first entry in the Super Mario series to feature high-definition graphics.

As part of the "Year of Luigi" campaign, a downloadable expansion called New Super Luigi U was released in June 2013. A standalone expansion disc was released the following month, and then the base game and expansion were released on disc.

The game received generally positive reviews and is one of the best-selling games on the Wii U. An enhanced port for the Nintendo Switch, titled New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe,[b] developed by the successor to Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development, Nintendo Entertainment Planning and Development, was released on January 11, 2019. As of September 2023, 16.7 million units of the Switch version had been sold worldwide. A total of 22.52 million units have been sold worldwide for Wii U and Switch, making it one of the best selling video games of all time.
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