Look, if you don't want to continue the conversation, you're free to leave the topic at any time. I'm not going to drop this point, in this topic, until you explain to me how adding co-op to a non-casual series makes it casual. You say co-op isn't casual. You say Mario isn't casual. Yet you say adding co-op to Mario makes it casual!

How can this be?

Although that still doesn't mean the co-op alone makes it this. It just means the marketing combined with likely being pick-up-and-play makes it this

If you're going to get this worked up, just leave the topic.

If you're just going to keep repeating "it's my opinion," just leave the topic.

If you actually feel like answering questions in a civil manner, explain why you think it's casual and then leave it at that.

Please realize we know it's your opinion but as someone pointed out opinions can be wrong.

Personally, I don't care if this game is hardcore or casual because it's classic Mario with a new twist.  I doubt I will take a lot of advantage of the 4 player co-op but that doesn't matter because a 2D Mario platformer is about as good gaming as you can get.

Co-op IS a casual feature. It allows inexperienced gamers to join their more core friends to work together and beat the game. Plus just the idea of playing with a group of people is something that would be more attractive to a "casual" gamer (i.e. casual gamers don't tend to like playing games alone). So yes, this is a casual feature, but that doesn't mean it can't appeal to hardcore gamers as well.

I can't wait for this game! It's going to be brilliant (and I will be mostly playing it single player). 

It truely is hard for me to fathom why anyone wouldn't want this game and not because of nostalgia, but rather because it's going to be a great game packed full of fun.  The world is serious enough lets all lighten up a bit?

You are insane, you probably hasnt played a Mario game before, Mario games are incredible multiplayer or not, its going to be an incredible game, my first mario game was Super Mario World and i loved it, i recently got Super Mario Bros on the VC and omg.. that game is insane, you cant get those game nowadays but wait... New Super Mario Bros Wii? this game is a game for everyone, its a classic game, with new elements, great graphics, insane multiplayer, koopa kids, and the classic tunes that never grow old

I dissagre. I dont consider Left 4 Dead casual and thats coop.

Seems to me here a lot of the people who dont care about this game are not Wii fans. I mean some guys selling his Wii and comes in here saying he wont be getting it. I mean LMAO. Then some other guy, sony fanboy, goes off about he dont want it because all the PS3 games are better. I would think the OP's question was for Wii fans that dont want the game. If your not a Wii fan then why would you care anyways?

Day one perchase for me.

no not many people want it

Left 4 Dead is not casual, but the co-op feature within it has the effect of including casual gamers that wouldn't normally try the game if it were single-player only. That is, they would be willing to try the game if it meant playing with a more experienced friend. A co-op feature will not instantly change a harcore-content game like Gears of War or Left 4 dead into a casual game, but it does open up the game to more people.

As for NSMBWii, the co-op feature will no doubt do the same thing and moreso than a game like Left 4 Dead, because the content is casual-leaning in the first place. There is no doubt that Nintendo has purposfully intended to use co-op as a way to attract casual audiences.

I'm a Wii only owner and am not Getting NSMBW or SMG2, might get Metroid, definitely getting the next LOZ.

*Sets up flame shield