"After all, the way to solve this problem lies in how to communicate 'what kind of games can be played', as long as Nintendo 3DS is a gaming device.

"There might be consumers who are interested in Nintendo 3DS," he continued, "but they are unable to find software which they want to play, and they are in the 'wait-and-see mode'."

Hmm. So they have to "communicate what kind of games can be played."

We know what kinds of games can be played. It's pretty self explanatory. It's a DS with a 3D screen and a demoted D-pad. We aren't retarded.

And wow. Did a guy who just launched a game console just admit there are no games that customers want to play available? "They are unable to find software which they want to play." He literally just admitted that they tried to launch a console without games, and he seems to have no problem with this. "After all, the way to solve this problem lies in ... [communication]."

He says this offhand, like it's obvious. The problem isn't that there are no games, it's communication. They have to better communicate "what kind of games can be played."

Man, they sure did a good job communicating in 2005-2008. Their communication skills really went down since then! They were so good at communicating when Nintendogs came out, but they just can't communicate what Choo Choo Zelda is about! They were great at communicating with Wii Sports, but just struggle communicating with Super Mario: The Lost Galaxies. They communicated what kind of game Wii Fit was, but can't communicate what's so great about Metroid: Mommy Issues.

"They are unable to find software which they want to play."
"The way to solve this problem lies in how communicate what kind of games [they CAN play]."

Go away, Iwata.

The one thing I've felt is that Nintendo thinks we are stupid. They say "we need to make customers understand the value of 3D." Or maybe they just don't want it Iwata.

I thought Iwata was going to make Nintendo better, but he's making it worse.

I think Iwata used to understand the ways of disruption and Blue Ocean strategy, but he has buckled to pressure from Miyamoto and the other prominent member of the old guard at Nintendo.

It's like Iwata showed up and told Miyamoto "Gamecube has failed and Game Boy has no clear future. Stop making games that suck." And to turn up the pressure, he makes an experimental team which creates Brain Age.

And Miyamoto is like "Gee, I better stop making games that suck." And he comes up with Wii Fit and Nintendogs, and takes too much credit for Wii Sports and the Wii remote.

And then, a few years later, Miyamoto shows up and is like "We're back on top! NOW can I make games that suck!!??"

You and I both know that's not true.  The market loves 3D Mario.  Just not nearly as much as 2D Mario.

A growing number of people hate it, and the reason is that Nintendo treats 3D Mario like the main game, and 2D Mario like the spin-off. It's like they would rather give it to Monster Games or something.

3D Mario gets the cool, orchestrated music, more attention to the graphics and the visuals in general, new content like different boss guys, and each console gets a 3D Mario before a 2D Mario, and possibly more than one 3D Mario. Plus the 3DS costs $250 so it can be 3D, and the only games Nintendo talks about as really benefitting from this from a gameplay standpoint are flying games and, you guessed it: 3D Mario. 2D Mario is just made $100 more expensive by being on 3DS instead of releasing another 2D Mario for DS sometime in the last half decade.

I would guess that at this point, more people are pissed off at 3D Mario than people who love it. Mario 64 is a top 15 game for me, and I'm pretty pissed at 3D Mario at this point.

@Erik Aston  i love your Metroid: Mommy issues, good stuff. but i think your in the minority when it comes to being mad at 3d Mario, and why would you be, cause they get more attention than 2d???? Of course it does Ninty mastered the 2d Mario formula since the original, "more attention to graphics"??? its a damn 2d platform how much more attetion they can give it??? YOu think Mario DS could have looked better? Really, what is their left to do with the 2d Mario series? the last game had multiplayer, "amazing" because many other 2d platformers didnt already do this years prior with online support. Im not hating on 2d Mario, i still hold that Mario 3 is the best platformer ever made and will ever be made, Yoshis island and SOnic 2 following closely behind, but i believe that Ninty as artist might feel that they done just about all they can do with the 2d Mario games, unless you want them to go the COD route and release yearly and i dont think thats good for any series, especially Ninty.  FYI there have been far more 2d marios than 3d.

It's perfect so you should never do it again? That's your logic? The graphics point was to do with the general treatment of the series.

Artistic mastery? That's nonsense. Just make fun games. We'll judge what was an artistic masterpiece in 50 years.

There have, of course, been far more 2D Marios than 3D, but almost all of them came out from 1985-1992. That period gave us SMB, SMB2, Lost Levels, SMB3, SMW, SML, and SML2. That's nearly annual, and it didn't kill the series.

Since 1992, there have been four 3D Mario games, with a fifth announced, and just two 3D Mario games. Despite it being by far the most popular games series of all time, the equivilant of three home console generations passed without a home console 2D Mario.

The right thing to do is roll them out every 2 or 3 years like they do with Zelda and 3D Mario. Two per system. And pump up the content. Introduce new boss enemies, new environments. Keep it up with the new powerups. Jack up the amount of levels to 100, then higher. They certainly haven't run the formula dry. One of the key ways they mixed up the formula for NSMBW was spinning platforms. That would have been possible on N64. Nintendo just wasn't interested.

And the other thing to do, is make sure the other 2D platformers released for the system get treated properly as well. That takes the pressure off 2D Mario to do annual games like Guitar Hero or Need for Speed. If DKC Returns had the tight controls and jump-in gameplay of NSMBW, and games like Wario Land and Kirby's Yarn took more straightforward approaches and stuck to the tenets of the series, and Sonic 4 wasn't some DLC misstep, then there is no need to overwork 2D Mario.

^^^ touche i agree with every 3 years thats enough time inbetween. For me im just slight fatigued with 2d Mario, none of the previous ones are better than 3 IMHO. Id place Land 2 above the new series. So i wouldnt even pick them up at least not right away, im not saying dont make them but lets not stop making 3d ones, especially since they are adamant about pushing that series im looking forward to what they will do with Mario 3DS

There should be a 2D Mario every 1st and 3rd year on a Nintendo system, period.

We'll see what happens when the games show up, which is right around the time NGP releases as well