Mario and Zelda must go.

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@OP

This phenomonon is a call back to when Sony and MS fans saw Nintendo as a major threat to their consoles all the time(as opposed to now when they've turned on to each other).

Nintendo always had the best games, but they've been largely 1st party, so people would say "Nintendo has no games."

Then, the common answer was of course, the magnificant series' Mario and Zelda.

So, to marginalize those epic series, and to justify to themselves and others why they didn't need to buy a Nintendo console, they would say, "Mario and Zelda? They are just rehashes anyway."

It's a marginaliztion technique by Nintendo haters.

In reality, those two series' continue to output some of the best content in gaming with each new epic entry. The level of quality and work put into those titles is unmatched. Similar to the Final Fantasy series, these games will always be made up of the very best stuff that gaming has to offer, wheather or not they introduce many new ideas.

If either of those series' are dicontinued, every gamer has lost something, and it would be a significant milestone in gaming history and a footnote in the history of man.