Nintendo has really abandoned their best selling IPs.

[Onyxmeth]

Snake612 said:

When I was growing up, I loved Nintendo and the games the made and I still support Nintendo tell the day I die. They really concentrated on their best IPs. For example, despite the N64 not being the #1 console, it still had a lot of good IPs. There was Super Mario 64, Donkey Kong 64, Hey you Pikachu,Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, StarFox 64 and other classic titles. It seems like over the years they have not only abandon their best IPs but some their best titles overall. Its hard to believe that we may not see a Kirby Wii game or a Donkey Kong Wii or a Starfox Wii or a Kid Icarus game this gen. I mean what's going on?

 

Why have Nintendo abandoned their best selling games?

Why Nintendo? Why?

So many questions and statements to make...

1. What does best selling IPs have to do with this topic? Some of the ones you mentioned weren't even the best selling in the fifth generation, which is where you've picked them all from in that first paragraph. Also I fail to see how titles like Kid Icarus, Donkey Kong and Star Fox could realistically outsell the Wii branded series, or even Mario Galaxy, Brawl and Mario Kart, so best selling titles these are not.

2. Out of every title and IP you mentioned, the only one that hasn't had a game in the last three years is Kid Icarus. That IP hasn't been heard of since the NES, so I'm confused as to why you mention it now after it WAS abandoned for so many years and is NOW finally being rescucitated this gen.

3. Seriously? You're longing for Hey You Pikachu 2?

4. Star Fox? Get a DS. Donkey Kong? Get a DS. Kirby? Get a DS. Pikachu? Get a DS.

5. Last generation, a Donkey Kong platformer didn't see a release until four years after the console came out. A traditional Star Fox didn't see release until four years after the console came out. Kirby never even saw a traditional platforming release. Nintendo decided to turn Hey You Pikachu into a real time strategy pinball game called Odama, and that came out like five years after the GC came out.

So really...what are you complaining about?