All sequels regardless of whether it is a Mario game, Fallout game, Zelda game, Fable game, Doom game, Metroid game and on contain essentially the same gameplay as their predecessors with a few tweaks and better graphics. Rarely do sequels switch it up entirely.
This perceived, faux anger over Nintendo comes from the fact that the widely held gaming God, Shigeru Miyamoto has been quoted as wanting to create Super Mario 128. People don't want to hear stuff from this whom the gaming netroots and industry insiders regularly hail as creating the current console gaming market.What makes it an affront is when a guy who wants to create Super Mario 128 is hailed as a creative genius when he could not even put Peach or a female character in the New Super Mario Bros. Wii.
People so enamored with Miyamoto forget that there was Atari and Caleco Vision before Nintendo jumped into the home console market.
Henceforth, Miyamoto or Nintendo for that matter was not irreplaceable then and not irreplaceable now. If it would not have been Miyamoto and Nintendo, then Atari or some other gaming company would have been in Nintendo's shoes right now and if Nintendo fails, then Microsoft, Sony and Apple will capitalize on the vaccum left from their demise.
