New Super Mario Bros. 2 was the sequel to the DS game.  The game was released in Japan on July 28, 2012.  The rest of the world's release date was throughout August 2012.

     It was the first Nintendo-publish game to be released in physical and digital form.  Nintendo also released downloadable content for the game.  These were additional Coin Rush stages.

     The game saw the return of the Super Leaf from Super Mario Bros. 3.  This allowed the player to fly short distances. The Invincibility Leaf returned from Super Mario Land 3D.  This showed up after a player had died five times.

     The plot is for Mario to rescue Princess Peach from the Koopalings and Bowser.  The secondary plot is for players to collect as many coins as possible.  If Spotpass is enabled, a player's coins are added to the worldwide total on the Nintendo Network.  The current total was over 1 trillion coins had been collected by players.

     In Coin Rush mode, players challenged themselves to gather as many coins as possible before the timer runs out.  Additional courses are purchased through the Nintendo 3DS e-Shop.

     The game received favorable reviews.  Many complained about the lack of being much different then the original title.  The game has sold over 11,000,000 copies as of January 2017.