axt113 said:
10 Million copies is nothing if it doesn't push hardware
Wii perhaps, but it did reignite Wii sales after months of lagging, Wii had a record breaking December because of NSMB Wii, with the DS, it spiked around the time of NSMB DS's release, SNES was propelled out of the gate by Super Mario World |
It would be disingenuous to pretend that Super Mario Galaxy didn't contribute, to some degree, to Wii hardware being moved over time, but moving hardware isn't Nnintendo's only goal, either.
Again: it's a false correlation, since you equated victory with 2D Mario when the Wii had attainend that long before.