Well, I think the people who are old enough to have an NES in its prime are obviously not gaming as much anymore as they get older, and you've got the younger gamers coming up all the time who have no experience with it.
The SNES will get there sooner or later, sadly, although we've probably still got a little ways until then since the SNES was making games as late as '96-97.
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