Considering the own mentality of Nintendo, New Super Mario Bros Wii is really a great title and one of the best Mario platforming game. The only fact that matters all the time with the game is fun. 3 letters that gives this incredible title throughout multiplayer experience. It's so enjoyable to play with 3 more people and the level design is so... incredibly well done!

Mario Bros Wii combines all the elements that made the serie so popular, but it is also more improved. This game runs REALLY well on a HDTV. The quality of the resolution is as good as Mario Galaxy, and even a little more. This is a different story of the DS.

So if a new Zelda game was made, with the exact same style and layout as the first Legend of Zelda, but with with better graphics and perhaps some muliplayer thrown in, that would also make it one of the best games of all time?

Not that I don't like NSMBW, I think it's just as awsome as the previous 2d installments of the series, and it's really cool to revisit Mario's roots, and be able to enjoy this type of gameplay on a big screen again..

But I still won't say it's one of the best games of all time, even though the old 2d Mario's definetly are - mosty because a lot have happend in the evolution of gaming since and we have come to expect more from a game.
NSMBW feels more like a nostalgic trip to the past - but it's still great fun..

On the other hand I definetly think Super Mario Galaxy is the latest instalement in the Mario series, that can be worthy of a "one of the greatest games of all time" title, and it's with out a doubt one of the greatest games of this generation so far..

Mario Galaxy is definitely one of the greatest games of all TIME. Mario Bros Wii doesn't live up this standard, but I consider it is the best 2D Mario game because... of fun, just that.

BTW

These are the Mario titles, that I think, can be considered as "some of the Greatest games of all time":

Super Mario Brothers

Super mario Brothers 3

Super Mario World

Super Mario 64

And Super Mario Galaxy

Not that other instalements in the Mario series both 2d and 3d aren't great, but I think, that it's these 5 titles that have really pushed both Mario, the genre, and overall gaming to were it is today.. :)

That's what I said... no?

But... you made my list. This is the 5 greatest Mario games. New Super Mario Bros Wii isn't as innovative as World or SMB3, but it is a very good title and a little snack before Galaxy 2.

Precisely How I feel.. :)

The best game of all time is SMB 3 for the NES, period.

Not bad.

Not bad at all.