WereKitten, Wii sales have not even reached SMB sales in the Americas. Just look at the all time totals chart. Wii Sports in America is at 24.73m, SMB is at 29.52. And it is games like Sports and Fit and yes, Mario Kart which have driven those Wii sales, but not 2D Mario.
And the Mario craze was not a 1985 event. The youngest people to have experienced the Mario craze would be about 24 now, they might not have even owned an NES, but had an early SMW SNES. SMB2 and SMB3 kept selling well into the SNES generation, too.
Mario Kart Wii has sold more that NSMB in America, but only by a bit, and it's not like that's a perfect overlap of buyers. And MKW is 2m short of SMB3 sales in America.
I just find it extremely likely that there are millions of people who would be interested in NSMBW who do not own a Wii.
"[Our former customers] are unable to find software which they WANT to play."
"The way to solve this problem lies in how to communicate what kind of games [they CAN play]."
Satoru Iwata, Nintendo President. Only slightly paraphrased.
