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KylieDog said:
Khuutra said:

It depends on whether or not yu see content as a valid value proposal, and hether or not content is necessarily tied into presentation, and whether or not content had anything to do with what's come before.

Let's rephrase, shall we?

In order to make an identical value proposition, we have to assume that up to now Super Mario Bros. never existed, and that as a result the platforming genre as we know it also never existed, probably kept more to someting like Pitfall until the jump to 3-D and thereafter more or less forgotten.

Would Super Mario Bros. still review in a very high range if it released today for the first time? Certainly. The game's mechanics and level design are still impeccable.

Not sure what kind of spin that is meant to be, but it did release back when it did much like those GC games released when they did.

Then the question you pose is meaningless: you're asking what would happen if Nintendo made a value proposition outside of the norm. Moe, you failed to draw a parallel between "quality" and "value" for reviewers.