2D Super Mario Bros. on 3DS: What would you like to see and want?

[Khuutra]

axt113 said:

Khuutra said:

You managed to make a point concerning one territory, which accounts for about 10% of Super Mario Galaxy's market and where the Wii is weaker per capita in egeneral as compared to other markets, and where buying trends are notably different in either case.

You have yet to make a point that actually asserts that Super Mario Galaxy did not attribute to ongoing shortages for the system in the context of worldwide sales.

Not so, since NSMB and Kart performed extremely well in Japan as well as the west, Mario is a worldwide property, so we know that if a Mario game is actually a system mover, it will perform well there as well as here, the fact that it failedto move hardware in Japan, when Wii was not sold out indicates its lack of hardware move in power.

That is simply not the case; Mario's appeal is not identical across territories and it is not identical across subseries, with different ones appealing to different levels i n different territories. Japan's lack of hardware moving is not indicative of a lack of worldwide contribution to hardware shortages; you  are barking up a tree that has nothing in it.

Pretending that Japan has the same buying habits as "the west" (there is no monolithic "western market", each section of it is very different) is disengenuous, provably false, and intellectually bankrupt.