NSMB Wii

[WereKitten]

Erik Aston said:

WereKitten said:

(SMG too hard for SMB-era dads? They probably bought one anyway for their children and Mario Kart).

SMG sold 8 million. 2D Marios have been known to sell more than that. That would suggest the entire 2D Mario fanbase has not bought in yet.

You missed my point there, it being that even if SMG had a too high entry barrier being a 3D Mario, the system as a whole has always had a low entry barrier for a vastly overlapped amount of people. IE they bought a Wii anyway for other games (Wii sports, Mario Kart Wii, other Mario spin-offs).

Let's say that NSMB Wii is marketed very well as a fun, 4x multiplayer, easy to get into game for the family sporting Mario. For many people that happened yet, and that's Mario Kart, and they already bought a Wii.

Nostalgia will kick in for many that were on the fence, my doubt is how many of them there are when compared to the present Wii userbase.