What if NSMB was released on gamecube?

[vivster]

green_sky said:

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. 

Actually all you do is proving my point.  The Wii's biggest System sellers weren't Mario games but Wii Sports and the price point. I still do not think that the majority of people buys a console for a single Mario game. They don't go into the store and say: "Oh gosh NSMB came out I just have to possess a Wii to play this game." No, they're going: "Oh look this new game console is on sale. I heard really good things about it and it has a lot of games. Oh and while we're at it we'll take this Mario game. Mario is quite popular with the kids I heard.

And that is exactly why Mario sells great on already popular systems and won't do much for struggling systems like GC or WiiU. I don't believe there is a 20+million fanbase out there who buys a console just for a Mario game.