Honestly I wouldn't want to see a ton of Sidescrollers hit store shelves. Firstly they are cheaper to develope then fully 3D games making it easier for developers to churn out tons of side scrollers for the price of one 3D game. In my opinion Nintendo is simply taking advantage of cheaper dev costs like they are with the whole Wii tech demo series.
That being said Nintendo does a smash up job making side scrollers. I am buying NSMBW and have debated buying LittleBigPlanet. Will we see a return of Rayman, Sonic and .... Bubsy lol because we all want Bubsy and Aero and all the other sidescrollers come back. To be honest I don't think other studios could truly create great sidescroller experiances anymore!
I'm just hoping NSMBW inspires Nintendo to go back and give us Donkey Kong Country 4!
-JC7
"In God We Trust - In Games We Play " - Joel Reimer
