Igarashi: DS the only platform in which it's acceptable to publish 2-D games

[Avinash_Tyagi]

getsallad said:

Avinash_Tyagi said:

But if 2D makes more profit and sells more consoles, why have one Galaxy when you can have 2 NSMB's, why have one prime or other M when you can have two super metroids, why an OoT when you can have two LttPs

What keeps them from making both Mario Galaxy and NSMB? Obviously they have man-power enough to do so right now, so why wouldn't they in the future?

It's not like Mario Galaxy doesn't net them profit. In fact, it's a rather successful game. It doesn't make any sense to stop making it because a game in another genre sells more.

Roughly, you're using the same logic as this:

Mario games sell more than Zelda games. Hence, we will stop making Zelda games.

If it takes 2-3 years to make a Galaxy and 1 year to make an NSMB Wii, you get better sales on the NSMB Wii at higher profits, you can use all that manpower to make a second game of a different title even a third, sure you can have the manpower, but look at Nintendo, 3D games take a lot of time to make, for no real gain.