| Ronster316 said: Nintendo/Mario= Milked Sega/Sonic the hedgehog= Milked Capcom/Resident evil= Milked Bungie/Microsoft/Halo= Gonna be milked Halo is a multi million franchise, Who wouldn't cash in? |
Not so much Resident Evil, but definitely the other two.
It'd be a shame for such a good series to become another Mario. Some people will go out and buy a game at the sight of Mario, others will cringe. I am one of the latter.
Mario shows Nintendo's desperation as much as Halo is beginning (only beginning) to show Microsoft's.
Yes, I am aware that Nintendo has other franchises. Are any of them as popular/milked/famous as Mario? Not counting bundled with all console games (Wii Sports and Play), doesn't Mario feature in six of the top ten selling Wii games and four of the top five? Is any other game franchise in the world as famous as Mario?
I really hope Halo does not become like this. It would be such a waste of an excellent series.
Hopefully they'll stop at three games a year.
EDIT: I should emphasise that I see nothing wrong with Halo 1-3. They were nice and spaced out, and a lot of effort was put into them. Even one game a year is fine. Maybe even two can be acceptable if they are spaced out. Three is getting closer to Mario.
And even if Halo: Chronicles would be in 2010, why announce it now? Why do people need to know two years before it is released? What would you think if Konami suddenly announced an expansion to MGS4, an MGS RTS and an MGS FPS, all under development at the same time? Now imagine that Kojima is (somehow) making the expansion, Insomniac the RTS and Naughty Dog the FPS. Wouldn't you find that odd?
Halo.... has changed.
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