Malstrom: "I blame Mario Galaxy for the Wii´s problems in Japan".

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since this is a chartz site I'll add some chartz

http://vgchartz.com/swlaunch.php?reg1=Japan&game1=Super+Mario+Galaxy+-+Wii&reg2=Japan&game2=Super+Mario+Sunshine+-+GC&reg3=Japan&game3=Super+Mario+64+-+N64&weeks=128

As you can see, 3D Mario fell from grace in Japan after Mario 64. Sunshine has performed by far the worse, while Galaxy already beat Sunshine's lifetime total and continues to sell a few thousand a week.

If you bring in Mario 64DS, you can see that Galaxy even outperformed (so far) the DS version even though the DS userbase is much larger.

http://vgchartz.com/swlaunch.php?reg1=Japan&game1=Super+Mario+Galaxy+-+Wii&reg2=Japan&game2=Super+Mario+Sunshine+-+GC&reg3=Japan&game3=Super+Mario+64+DS+-+DS&weeks=175

From this we can conclude that Galaxy has been successful in Japan. While not wildly successful, it has in no way harmed the console. Now, if Nintendo released the game and expected to be able to do nothing for the next 2 years and systems would sell, then they were stupid, but I doubt Nintendo believed that. Of course, Maelstrom seems to believe that Nintendo expected just that.