New Super Mario Bros. Wii is a side-scrolling 2.5D Mario platformer for the Wii and the tenth game in the Super Mario series. The game was released in Oceania on November 12, in North America on November 15, and in Europe on November 20, 2009; it is the first main series game to be released first in the Oceanian regions, and the first and currently the only Mario platformer to be originally released outside Japan or America. It is a follow-up to the 2006 Nintendo DS game New Super Mario Bros. -Wiki