I don't remember a Mario Bros game on the Gamecube.

Edit: You didn't like my 'Nintendo should go 3rd party' thread?

Seece, why are you even here? Comments like the one you just made show how little you know about what is being talked about here.

You had no point to begin with.

The argument was that fans of certain games would buy new iterations of the very same games. You countered that by basically asking where were those fans when Nintendo didn't release such a game for their console. Does that make sense to you?

Every Super Mario Bros. game so far sold millions of hardware units, so it would be strange if one released for the Gamecube wouldn't have accomplished the same.

Super Mario Bros. is the mainline of Mario games, everything else are spinoffs. Imagine how popular Halo would be on the next Xbox, if games like Halo Wars would be all it gets. If people complained that they want a Halo game, you would say they should just buy Halo Wars 2, because that is Halo. Same universe and all.

Ever since the NES Nintendo was losing course of what made them successful in the first place. With the sales of Super Mario Bros. games on the NES it should be clear what propelled Nintendo up to heaven. On the SNES we got Super Mario World (a.k.a. Super Mario Bros. 4) as a launch title and that was it. The SNES could have easily crossed the 50m mark, if it had gotten another SMB sequel, because SMW wasn't all that (to this very day there are debates whether SMB3 or SMW is the better game, even though the latter is a 16-bit title and should be superior by all accounts).

No Super Mario Bros. for the Nintendo 64 and Gamecube and sales continued to decline. Nintendo's core audience was dwindling, because Nintendo's bread and butter, Super Mario Bros., wasn't present anymore. Remember that the Wii posted record holiday sales in 2009. Priorly in this year Wii sales were on the decline and the launch of the PS3 Slim initiated discussions whether the Wii wouldn't be #1 that holiday. New hardware sales don't go to the people who already bought Mario Kart Wii, unless you want to suggest that those people were buying a second Wii.

And it's not just that the Wii spiked during the holidays 2009 due to NSMB Wii. Japan is especially telling of its impact. The situation in early 2010 and 2011 is very similar for the Wii in Japan. No noteworthy games released for the Wii, but the weekly sales level is notably higher in 2010 than in 2011 (I think Japan was even up yoy in early 2010). Wii sales worldwide have been on serious decline since spring 2009, but NSMB Wii put a stop to that for a few months. Of course, nothing lasts forever, so eventually the Wii continued its freefall, because the release schedule simply wasn't and isn't strong enough to keep a higher level of sales.

Wii sales were far beyond Gamecube sales when NSMB Wii was released.  I for one believe the 2009 holiday sales were caused more by price cut as well as continued attraction of Wii as a holiday gift.  After all Wii sales accelerated again this past holiday without a dominant title.    Yes not as much, but there wasnt an official price cut and the competion for motion gaming was stronger. Not to mention market penetration.

Yeah punked in the order of most punked to least punked at least when it comes to next generation motion controllers. I am making two assumptions that the touch screen rumour is real and that the NES 6 is backwards compatible with the Wiimote.

In a nutshell in order to stave off any PMS (Post Malstrom Stress) I'll sum it up in a one liner: Nintendo just pumped up a specific style of game controller, made mega dollars on the trend and then abandoned as their main console focus in less than 5 years.

To explain what I mean: (Backwards compatibility.) or you could read the following two paragraphs.

Nintendo has already pretty much captured the wand style motion control market. All they have to do at this point is offer forward compatibility to the NES 6 for all those who are interested in the technology and games. So essentially if you already have a Wii you'll buy an NES 6 because you can still use your $100 or more investment in controllers and games. If you become interested in the controls or games then you can still buy Wii mote controllers and if you're not interested by now you may become interested in the new possibilities of what the NES 6 will offer. Nintendo will likely lock in a large proportion of their current Wii market whilst at the same time expand to new markets. 

The market won't get confused because Nintendo will use a pretty simple distinction to tell people how they will play their games. Wii = needs a Wii mote. xxx = needs an xxx mote. It seems to work quite well for Microsoft with Kinect titles so im pretty sure it'll work extremely well for Nintendo at the same time.

So how did they punk Sony? Well sorry Sony but Nintendo has an even better upgrade path to the Wii HD given the fact that the enourmous number of controllers and accessories Wii owners have bought will continue to work. They'll have a hard time convincing people to 'upgrade' to a PS3 post E3. On the other hand Sony courted a bunch of technophiles with their techy console, they stand to lose them on probation at least until the PS4 is released.

So how did the punk Microsoft? Well sorry Microsoft but Kinect doesn't cut it as a means to control  a console compared to a touch screen at this point. A touch screen is intuitive, contextual and accurate so whilst they may have different strengths it is likely far more practical overall as a controller. Im not saying that Kinect doesn't do things that you can't do with a touch screen or Wiimote.

Overall? The NES 6 is probably going to be the best console released yet, and really who would doubt otherwise? It will have the most performance, the most complete controller setup between supporting motion and touch interfaces as well as biometric if we go by that heart rate sensor thingie. It shouldn't lack for games at launch and within a year for all practical purposes it will have at least as good a library as any console as legacy titles over a year old aren't important on the market place and backwards compatibility will fill out the remainder of the gaps. 

Well, of course it didn't make the Wii. It was released three years into the Wii's lifespan after all. Without it, however, the Wii would have completely collapsed. NSMB Wii perfectly fits into the overall philosophy behind the Wii (which is Nintendo's original philosophy that also made the NES so successful). Also, it's undeniable that Nintendo is more successful everytime Super Mario Bros. is on their system.