Who bought it when it was released on the N64 and GameCube?

DONKEY KONG WII!!!

WiiFit won't kill games, there's always a market big enough for them. BD, WiiFit, downloadable contents are simply expanding consoles' audience, but that's good, traditional games market is by no means shrinking, it grows as usual, simply we notice more the "not gamer console users market" because it's new and as most new successful things, its initial growth is very strong. This new market won't either help or hurt games, but after the first years, when technophiles allow producers to keep prices high, making the HW market larger than it would be if based only on gamers, will help to get bigger and faster price reductions. The trend started with PSOne, with PS2 it got even stronger and now, thanks to Wii, consoles could easily become commodities as VHS recorders and CD and DVD players. Not a bad thing at all, shame PS3 shortcomings (RAM and single PPE core) won't allow consoles to become a commodity home computer too this gen, otherwise we could have had this gen the big jump to large scale home computerization "experts" keep on predicting, but that didn't happen yet.

Yeah. But it bothers the same when I remember that stupid GTA games sold better than anything last generation.

Also, PS2 sold more than 120 million units. Do you REALLY think it was bought by hardcore gamers only? If it was,tell me where are all of these hardcore gamers now (not buying PS3, I'm sure). I mean, if they are hardcore and really care about Graphics, CPU, etc, why aren't they buying the PS3 or 360?

The fact is, PS2 sold a lot of (if not most) of its units to casual. And I include those who bought only for sports games or GTA (Look at me! I'm the greatest! I can kill anyone, stole cars. Sooooo cooool), or Singstar and Eyetoy games. The difference now is that Nintendo knows how to speak to these people and how to bring even more kinds of them. But hardcore games will always have buyers too. So, please, forget that casual games sell more. It's like the music market: the fact that hip-hop music sells more than anything doesn't stop people from doing other kinds of music (without hip-hop "interludes", please).

So, if that's the problem, forget about it. Now, if your problem is the fact that PS3 isn't doing well, I'm sorry. No one can help you with this one except for Nintendo, but they simply wont do what you want them to do. Oh, what a shame.

So now Animal Crossing is for non-gamers. Cool.

i want a new system. i sold my wii due to lack of games and ugly graphics.

You don't like the games and the graphics?  Why did you buy it, in first place?

What did you expect? GTA IV in 1080p?

I want an Advance Wars for the Wii that plays like the Advance Wars for the DS.

a real donkey kong platformer, a true pokemon game, resident evil 2 and 3 remake made in re 4 style controls, a yoshi's island game, actually releasing the kirby game that was announced about 4 years ago, and a new star fox but only flying with no running around on land.

Absolutly agree with you. It's time for Nintendo to produce a new Donkey Kong...