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RolStoppable said:
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By saying that Mario games which cover various genres are equal to the countless iterations of Guitar Hero games you have proved that you are a Nintendo detractor. Only those would say something as ridiculous as you have, in order to prove a flawed point. It's probable that you won't stop there and go to even greater lengths from here on out
.I never said they were equal. I said they get praised for milking while Activision gets bashed. Just because they spread out the same character over different genres or differnent games doesn't mean they aren't milking thier golden goose. They both use a successfull ideas to sell different games. That is what milking is. They do go about it in different ways but the fact remains they use the success of mario to help sell or add sales to differnet games.
Activision has released more iterations of Guitar Hero with the same core gameplay in the six years of the franchise's history than there are 2D Mario platformers which exist since 25 years. There's more GH than 3D Mario platformers. More GH than Mario Karts, Mario RPGs, Mario Golf, Tennis, Football, even Party which had been the most used spinoff with yearly releases.
And thier are more "mario" games than any other. It doesn't matter if they release 1 game or 20 in the same genre. They put Mario in every genre they can. the only difference is Activision milks a game while Ninty is milking a character.
The reason why all those Mario games still sell so well is because they are rare compared to pretty much all other franchises in existence. No, that's not a joke. How many other companies limit their output to one, maybe two, titles per generation? Actually I agree with this. Gran Turismo is the only other I can think of.
All Nintendo detractors see is Mario here, Mario there. That's why they lump all those games together as if they were the same. But the neutral consumer sees a Mario platformer, a Mario racing or a Mario sports game or whatever else the game is about. That's the big difference: The consumer doesn't think that the game is about Mario. So when a consumer buys a mario game with mario in the title, they don't think it's about Mario. Yeah right. They see a mario themed game. Which is exactly what Ninty wants. I fixed the rest of this paragraph for you.
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