They’re two of the best known characters from video game history; Nintendo’s Italian plumber Mario and Sega’s blue, spiky haired hedgehog Sonic. Between them they’ve had more hits that the Beatles and Elvis put together, and their latest outing on the Nintendo Wii has sold well over a million units in the United Kingdom.

When you combine that figure with sales for the Nintendo DS, you get over 1.35 million sales of the unlikely pairing.

Currently the two of them are flying of UK shelves at a rate of a staggering 20,000 units per week across the two Nintendo games systems.

Alan Pritchard, from Sega North Europe stated:

Mario and Sonic has made gaming history with over a million software units sold on the Nintendo Wii within the UK alone.

The title has been an immediate hit from launch and we will continue to re-invest and market this title throughout the rest of the year with a hope of reaching over two million sales by the end of our financial year.