NES/SNES gamers though if they do play a lot tend to be 360/PS3 players. I grew up with the NES. So did a lot of my friends. If they do game they're pretty much all about the PS3/360 now. They did get a Wii and they had their fun with it, and playing 2D Mario or Mario Kart was fun for a while, but that has largely worn off now.
Nintendo needs to have some kind of strategy that's better than "remember when ...". That only gets you so far. Playing NSMB for example was cool because a lot of people hadn't played a 2D Mario in many cases since Super Mario World like 15 years ago or whatever.
But now there's a "new" NSMB every couple of years, it's like "big deal". Ditto for Mario Kart, with MKWii a lot of people had not played the franchise since the SNES or N64 days, but now there's a new MK every 2 years.
Nintendo's giant sin with the Wii/DS was they had a golden oppurtunity to create the next big Mario/Pokemon/Zelda character franchise, but they really didn't even try, now things like Wii Sports/Brain Training/Nintendogs don't have longevity so they basically came out of the Wii/DS generation empty handed with no new franchises to sell the Wii U/3DS with.
