Does Sony overuse their franchises?

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senseinobaka said:
Well alot of people mention Nintendo. In my opinion nintendo actually does the opposite to an extreme. A franchise game like Mario, Zelda, Kirby, Metriod, or even Smash Brothers, are rarely release (about once a generation).

BUT they over expose their characthers by placing them into other games like Mario Party or Mario and Sonic at the Olympics. Pretty much any nintendo character can be whored out anywhere at any time and very cheaply.

This isnt what I'm talking about in this thread. What sony does is make a franchise game almost once a year... Imagine nintendo making Smash Brothers every year. Imagine if we had as many Mario Galaxy games since 2006 as we did Resistance games. That would be a problem.

 

O really ? Cause the way you count games PSP games for you count too. Then surely DS games must also count..The games below are just wii and ds games (not including VC) released that includes mario in their name. Sure some of them are unrelated to the original platforming element. But regardless. What sony is doing is releasing a new game in Some of their franchises (with the exception of singstar which you really can't count) every other year. That's right. Thers a ps3 resistance game every other year. Meaning every 2 years 1 game comes out from that franchise. It seems to be the same with uncharted and rachet and clank.

 

The other rachet and clank was a psn title which mean it doesn't count as a retail game (just like i left out the vc games on the list below) and the other resistance you refere too is a psn game. In other words a game for a completely different console.

Do sony overuse their franchises ? No. On the contrary. They might infact under-use them instead.

Unlike some other companies they don't milk their franchises.

 

4		Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time		Nintendo	2,654	N/A	1.54m	31st Dec 08
5		Mario & Luigi RPG 3		Unknown	951	N/A	0.55m	22nd Feb 09
6		Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games		Sega	14,807	N/A	4.21m	22nd Aug 08
7		Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games		Unknown	0	N/A	0.00m	12th Feb 09
8		Mario Hoops 3 on 3		Nintendo	2,090	N/A	1.83m	30th Dec 08
9		Mario Kart DS		Nintendo	29,772	N/A	14.88m	17th Nov 08
10		Mario Party DS		Nintendo	12,568	N/A	5.68m	25th Nov 07
11		Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis		Nintendo	2,420	N/A	1.44m	30th Dec 08
12		New Super Mario Bros.		Nintendo	34,177	N/A	18.75m	17th Nov 08

110		Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games		Sega	23,029	N/A	7.06m	22nd Feb 09
111		Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games		Unknown	2	N/A	0.00m	12th Feb 09
112		Mario Kart Wii		Nintendo	205,926	8.7	15.84m	20th Aug 08
113		Mario Party 8		Nintendo	28,579	N/A	6.53m	01st Feb 08
114		Mario Strikers Charged		Nintendo	27,636	N/A	1.96m	01st Dec 08
115		Mario Super Sluggers		Nintendo	9,595	N/A	1.01m	01st Mar 09
116		New Play Control! Mario Power Tennis		Nintendo	1,109	N/A	0.63m	11th Mar 09
117		Super Mario Galaxy		Nintendo	416,524	9.6	8.11m	17th Nov 08
118		Super Paper Mario		Nintendo	19,116	N/A	2.76m	26th Oct 08
119		Dr. Mario online RX		Nintendo	4,120	N/A	0.00m	20th Nov 08