intendo announced today that in addition to taking the top cumulative-score on GameRankings.com and grabbing an average rating of 98 on Metacritic.com, Super Mario Galaxy has broken internal sales records at Nintendo.

"Super Mario Galaxy had the strongest one-week debut of any Wii game to date and has also become the best-selling Mario title ever in its first week, with U.S. sales of more than 500,000, based on internal sales figures," says George Harrison, Nintendo of America's senior vice president of marketing and corporate communications. "It makes an easy gift choice as the holiday shopping season kicks off."