What DK release have been on Wii? the drum thing from GC and what else?
You have to remember that Nintendo's games track pretty directly with hardware sales. The reason DKC 1 is so much higher than DKC2-3 is that SNES had its last big Christmas in 1994 and had slowed pretty quickly.
Based on some research SNES sold roughly like this in the USA:
1991 : 3.1m
1992: 7m
1993: 4.3m
1994: 3.3m (Figure 200k / month Jan-Oct, 400k Nov, 800k Dec roughly - similar holiday figures to PS3 in 2008)
1995: 2.4m (300k Nov, 600k Dec roughly)
1996: 1.2m (150k Nov, 300k Dec roughly)
1997: 0.9m
1998: 0.9m
1999: 0.3m
Essentially, DKC got to be a key experience for the base that was still pretty active, and for the 7m new SNES users from Nov 1994 onward. DKC2 had fewer active users, and only 4m new SNES users to sell to. By the time DKC3 came out SNES was only sold to another 2.5m users or so and most people who bought SNES before 1992 were likely just about done, and moving on to PS1 / N64. If you compare those figures to DK64, the stats are most similar to DKC2 in terms of active users and how many systems were sold after release both worldwide and in the USA - and thats why they both sold about 5m.
For Wii, there are going to be at least 15m new USA owners after Nov 2010 (30m at least worldwide), and the base is going to be larger than SNES & N64 combined.
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