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ClaudeLv250 said:

This is a list of new Nintendo franchises released or announced since 2001:

Golden Sun, Magical Vacation/Starsign, Legend of Stafy, Rhythm Heaven, Drill Dozer, Artstyle series, PictoChat, Band Brothers, Nintendogs, Trace Memory (Another Code), Elite Beat Agents (Ouendan), Elektroplankton, Brain Age, Hotel Dusk, Mystery Case Files, Chibi-Robo, Pikmin, Eternal Darkness*, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles*, Giest, Odama, Wii series (Sports/Music/Fit), Big Brain Academy, Captain Rainbow, Project HAMMER (canned?), Endless Ocean, Disaster: Day of Crisis, Soma Bringer, Kensax, Spawn Smasher, Line Attack Heroes, Dynamic Slash, Maboshi, Cosmic Walker, Girl's Mode,Master of Illusion

* = Co-owned in some shape for form

And that's actually trimmed down...I left out some of the obscure Japan-only IPs. But I'm not done yet!

List of Nintendo franchises REVIVED or localized for the first time outside of Japan since 2001:

Doshin the Giant, Mother (3), Metroid, Custom Robo, Kid Icarus, Advance Wars, Fire Emblem, Animal Crossing, Punch-out, Sin & Punishment, Excite (Truck), New Super Mario Bros. and probably more I'm forgetting.

EDIT: Added some more to the lists above and made the third list below...

List of new games/franchises/series spawned from existing IPs since 2001:

Metroid Prime (& Hunters/Pinball), Mario & Luigi RPG series, Warioware, Wario World, Batallion Wars, Zelda: Four Swords, Donky Konga, Mario Baseball, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, Kirby Air Ride, Super Princess Peach, Mario Hoops, Tingle's Rosy Rupee Land, Mario Strikers, Pokemon XD


I didn’t know PictoChat was a game… lol Allot of the games you mentioned are not in-house and some of them are third-party :P. I know they are creating new games but they are casual games. The last hardcore game they created was Pikmin. And creating spinoffs like Zelda FS and Mario RPG will not be taken as new IP’s people will just say it is another Mario or Zelda game. @Zucas hahaha yeah that is so funny read the OP again. They do create new IP’s but mostly casual lol

    R.I.P Mr Iwata :'(