Nintendo hates risk?

[Aeron]

Originally Posted by Li Cha

Mario bowling, swimming, jogging, back flips. Mario is to much of a whore, they know those games will sell 0 if it didn't have Mario in the title and it gets average ratings instead of crap because of Mario! Why don't I see "The legend of Zelda twlight basket ball"?

Yeah, Nintendo whores there franchises out alot.

But the biggest offender seriously has to be SE.

[Power666]

Originally Posted by Shpeshal Ed

Nintendo not only needs new IP's, even if it CAN'T think of new ones, which they don't seem to be able to do, they DO have old ones they could resurrect.

Icarus
Punch Out
Duck Hunt

Considering how long it's been since we've seen these, it's almost the equivalent of a new IP.

They would also ALL rock on the Wii (if done properly).

I thought a new Kid Icarus game was already in development for the Wii.

Duck Hunt effectively was included in Wii Play.

[Li Cha]

Originally Posted by Aeron

Yeah, Nintendo whores there franchises out alot.

But the biggest offender seriously has to be SE.

Super emulator?

[Aeron]

Square Enix.

I mean, we get around 13 FF Titles, then they make a Versus, Hasaris and Agito for each one. Then they add a FF(Number) Internatinoal. FF:CC, Crisis Core, Releveant Wings etc.
And THEN they make remakes of the Mainstream games.

[Li Cha]

Originally Posted by Aeron

Square Enix.

I mean, we get around 13 FF Titles, then they make a Versus, Hasaris and Agito for each one. Then they add a FF(Number) Internatinoal. FF:CC, Crisis Core, Releveant Wings etc.
And THEN they make remakes of the Mainstream games.

Oh that does get annoying. I don't really like SE FF series to begin with anyway, just a game here and there. Like I said, remake what makes money and people will buy it over and over again. Virtual console and xbox arcade have games at insane prices that came out 80 years ago, all of them can be downloaded for free on the pc.

[Leonidas]

Nintendo's old ip's all came out in a year (complete with 5 mario games) for a reason you nubs.

[Power666]

Originally Posted by Li Cha

Virtual console and xbox arcade have games at insane prices that came out 80 years ago, all of them can be downloaded for free on the pc.

Yes, I remember gaming when I was your age. I had to walk uphill both ways in the snow to get a game for the latest 1/2 bit system. It was before BLAST PROCESSING when it was just called processing.

[PirateThom]

Games cost less these days.

SNES games were like £60 a pop, now I never pay more than £40-45 for a new PS3 game.

[Li Cha]

Originally Posted by PirateThom

Games cost less these days.

SNES games were like £60 a pop, now I never pay more than £40-45 for a new PS3 game.

Yeah! but the game syou buy online, most likely everyone had the good ones atleast 10 times and even 64 games now in stores cost less, i see some for 2.99 an dthat is 64! not a nes or genisis game for the same rpice on v console

[Rainbow]

Originally Posted by Li Cha

Mario bowling, swimming, jogging, back flips. Mario is to much of a whore, they know those games will sell 0 if it didn't have Mario in the title and it gets average ratings instead of crap because of Mario! Why don't I see "The legend of Zelda twlight basket ball"?

I consider there are 5 different Mario franchises (yes, I did say different):
- Super Mario
- Paper Mario
- Mario Kart
- Mario Party
- whatever Mario sport they think of and other misc stuff including RPGs.

(I consider the first 3 to be the main franchises and the others to be spinoffs)

As far as I know, they only mixed two of these franchises in Super Paper Mario, the rest I see as being totally different from one another.

In other word, they are not so much milking a Mario franchise as they are milking Mario himself. But as long as a game is good and fun, I don't see where the problem is.


I do agree however that Nintendo needs to create or revive other IPs, but at the same time, when they do, people tend to ignore the new stuff.

The Cube got what? One game that falls into the Super Mario franchise (Sunshine), one that falls in the Paper Mario franchise, one Mario Kart, and a few Mario Party and other Mario sports/RPGs. So in other word, it's not the Super Mario, the Paper Mario or even the Mario Kart franchises that are being milked, it's the rest. And about Zelda and Metroid... the Cube got.. Metroid Prime one and two, and 2 Zelda games (Wind Waker and Twilight Princess).

Basically if someone would only buy the main Mario, Zelda and Metroid stuff, they would have bought only 7 games last gen for their Cube...

The fault lies within the Nintendo console owners.. it's them who have to let the companies know what they want by buying what interests them. If a new IP doesn't sell, chances are there won't be sequels.