Mario games are 12 for 12 this gen -- All million-sellers

[Final-Fan]

Partial repost:

Famine, you have a problem for some reason with seeing Mario in games ranging from his homeland of platforming to kart racing (a genre, by the way, that exists thanks to Mario) to various sports games (almost the only non-realistic ones currently being made AFAIK) et cetera et cetera. I really don't know why. But you do.

Anyway, I think that, despite appearances, Nintendo is actually a model of restraint. Mario's lasted for a quarter century now; I doubt many other companies would have been able to refrain from overexploiting him in any (or, arguably, more than one) particular genre.

There are exceptions, but as a rule Mario games are good -- often very, very good. They all share the same characters that his fans love, and a certain playful style. Mario fans get to explore new genres with the same much-loved characters; Nintendo makes scads of money; sometimes (as with Mario Kart) new gaming possibilities are revealed to the industry.

Who loses in this equation, aside from those who just hate Mario's face? What has Nintendo done wrong, if succeeding beyond any other company's wet dreams is not a crime?

I am truly interested in your answer to the final questions, Famine. If you want to drop this subject, though, I'll not raise it again.