We should note that unique viewing numbers are difficult to determine. It has since gone on to become one of the biggest animated movies of all time with a box office taking of $1.349 billion, according to the report - Nintendo describes this as 'the second-highest for an animated film' though figures from Box Office Mojo place the 2019's The Lion King and Frozen 2 above it. The Mario Movie was breaking records straight out of the gate, quickly becoming the highest-grossing video game adaptation after just one week. Movie's box office which is estimated (by Universal Pictures) to have pulled in a whopping 168.10 million viewers. On a note about expanding the company's IP, the report revealed the viewing numbers from The Super Mario Bros. Hearing the story about the issues after a 1 year old sucked on the gamecard may support that idea as well.The most recent Nintendo financial report is packed full of sales figures for games and consoles alike, but let's not forget that the Big-N is now in the world of films too. Just a theory, but this is how I reconciled what was going on there. Maybe (and this is just a hunch), certain gold connectors on the carts or DS game cards are directly linked to the save data, such that if they and no other connections are disrupted, the game will load and play okay but save data will not be accessible. Now, a couple years ago, I took my NES and entire NES library in to Nintendo of America to have it cleaned, and I believe they replaced the pins in the control deck (no more blinking!?!) They gave me some documentation at that time that said if carts were dirty, or had some alteration on the surface of the connectors, it may interfere the storage and retrieval of saved data. I had the same issue with the original Gameboy Golf while using a GBA. I'd pull it out and re-insert it and the files would be back. Metroid fusion used to do that I'd load up the cart and all my save files would be gone. I haven't had this kind of issue with the DS, but I have with the GBA, original model.

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