Qays on 26 September 2010
NSMB I'm on the fence about. Either way, though, it's not really valuable for the purposes of this discussion since to my knowledge no one else (besides indies) is even trying to compete with Nintendo in the old-school 2D platformer market.
For examples of core games on the Wii - SMG, Zelda, Metroid spring to mind. Such core series as Nintendo actually bothers to iterate upon tend to be of high quality (Other M notwithstanding) and sell fairly to very well. But these aren't the mammoth 10- to 20-million-sellers that put other first party efforts to shame.
