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

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Avinash_Tyagi said:

burgerstein said:

Avinash_Tyagi said:
They can make more games within limits, Iwata has already said they don't want to expand too far because it risks their company culture, and with farming out a game you have to be watchful that it doesn't come out badly and ruin your property, these are concerns for any company, but if you can produce more games, while not worrying about expanding too much or wrecking your properties, wouldn't that be preferred?

Obviously not because they're not doing it. And making a new Zelda or Mario game every year certainly has the potential to wreck the property.

Well if they stick to 3D they can't.  Less of a concern of wrecking it when they control it, but yes, people have commented on how the 3D zeldas and Marios have gotten stale

That's because they've been playing them lately. If they switched to 2D only a few years down the line people would be complaining 2D Zeldas and Marios are stale. Nobody complains a type of game is getting stale when nobody's making games of that type.