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green_sky on 27 April 2014
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vivster said:
Again, I don't think Super Mario games are selling consoles. The consoles sell the games. NSMB sold because they were one of the most prominent optrions on hugely popular consoles. They didn't make their already popular consoles more popular. That's why it probably wouldn't have done shit on the GC.

I don't know what you are talking about here but you are part of the cult who think Wii was a fad. The game pushed so much hardware that Wii was practically hard to find in store, three years into its life cycle. 

Here are some numbers. http://www.wired.com/2010/01/december-npd-the-nintendo-that-stole-christmas/

U.S. Videogame Hardware Sales, December 2009

  1. Wii 3.81M
  2. Nintendo DS 3.31M
  3. PlayStation 3 1.36M
  4. Xbox 360 1.31M
  5. PSP 654.7K
  6. PlayStation 2 333.2K

So essentially sold out every single non Nintendo video games unit combined. 

Game also had excellent reception in Japanese market too. "New Super Mario Bros. Wii was a commercial success, selling 936,734 units in four days in Japan,[when?] the biggest debut for a Wii game in that region;[57] its sales increased to 1,401,558 in the following week.[58] New Super Mario Bros. Wii sold three million units in Japan in the shortest time ever, selling 3,002,753 units in just seven weeks."

People don't buy pieces of plastic as design ornaments to put under their tv's. I mean sure there is small subset of tech geek who want the shiny stuff but three year old stuff is barely shiny or fad worthy to embrace. 

OT: Hard to say if it would have changed the fortunes of the console but it would have surely helped alot.