| Joelcool7 said: lol no Mario for two years? I wouldn't mind all that much as long as Nintendo gave us other franchises like Kirby, Donkey Kong and StarFox. If Nintendo gave us some of their other IP's I would actually love to see Mario go bye bye temporarily of course. But to achieve higher success among third parties, heck no. As Puffy pointed out third parties did not do enough to build an audience at the beggining of the Wii. It is way to late for the FPS genre for example. RedSteel one had a massive audience it was a launch title , but UbiSoft screwed up an released it too quickly it turned out mediocre. Then their was our version of FarCry another flop which I purchased. Then for years not a single FPS so then suddenly studios want to make FPS titles on the Wii (Conduit) they put all this effort in and are suprised when the title doesn't sell. Why didn't it sell? The FPS market has just moved to the 360/PS3. Their are still markets for some genres but studios and publishers neglected huge markets when they supported Wii. The publishers and developers were narrow minded. They saw Nintendo was having success with casual titles, excersize titles and family games. So every publisher focused in and made titles for those genres. This lead to the Wii becoming the console of choice for those genres, but turned off other potential buyers who turned to the competition for their fix. Fact is you could release a Halo Reach clone on the Wii and it would not break a million. You could have the best ModernWarFare3 and it will not keep up with its 360/PS3 counterparts. Fact is the market for FPS titles and some other genres just isn't there. |
I won't cry for FPS, there are more than enough around, on one platform or the other. 
And I won't justify 3rd parties' lazyness and half-assed "casual" games, and I agree with you too about Nintendo pausing Mario and making games with its less used good franchises (I never suggested pausing anything else than him), my point is just the intrusive presence of Mario, it looks like he's able to dwarf even the best 3rd party "core" games.
BTW, milking Mario too much potentially exposes him to the same risks of other overexploited franchises, people could just one day decide they are fed up. Up until now Nintendo has been able to carefully dose the releases, diversifying them across various genres, and Mario always grew as a whole, but die hard Nintendo fans ask some attention to other franchises too and it's also important that Nintendo refreshes some of them, otherwise they could end up being remembered and loved only by fans of longer standing, it would be a creative effort of the past going wasted.
Halo and Mario share the same blessing and curse, they are extremely important for their companies, that must dose with the maximum care their releases, as both starving or inflating them could cause a disaster, I don't envy who must take these decisions.
