It is really hard to revive or get those classic IPs but didn't sell a lot. They need profits hence they won't make a lot of IPs which would sell around 100k WW or it is always depending on the dev cost/budget and what is the targeted number of copies that the game needs to sell. Easy for us gamers on what we want but Nintendo as a business, they need profits and will surely check which one would really sell. I know they have a few blunders on which IPs and what kind of spin off but we can't fault them every time as they aren't that of a big company that has a lot of dev teams.
I would really love to play those classic games and hope they'll revive it and have an HD sequel or so. Golden Sun seems a good example, but I'm not sure sales wise. I would love to have those Mario sports bundled into a single game, and have the wonderful Mario characters play it out, rather than splitting all those games.
