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happydolphin on 07 February 2012
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RolStoppable said:
cyberninja45 said:

If Nintendo came up with new IP's to fit even more genres, it would make the situation even worse for third parties on there console. It's already bad enough as it is. For example if NIntendo makes a serious Top Gear rally game for WiiU , all other rally games released after that SUCKS!

BTW the Super Mario 3d X is kinda a new IP for Nintendo. So there are like 3 branches of Mario right now: 2d Mario, 2d/3d Mario and 3d/3d Mario.

The Super Mario 3d brand is playing an important role for the game industry right now: It shuts up the "3d is useless in games" crowd. Seriously, the internet has more or less  shut up about it. This is how conversations usually go on internet forums after SM3dLand released:

X: 3d is cool!

Y: 3d is useless.

X have u played  SM3dLand yet?

Y: No

X Then Shut the F*CK UP!

Y: Sorry

Right... as if detractors would shut up so easily.

As for the third party situation, the biggest enemy of third parties on Nintendo systems is their own incompetence and incontinence.

Rol, I remember a time when 3rd party games used to sell side by side with Nintendo 1st party games, were as successful if not more successful than 1st party Nintendo games at times. Do some of us even realise that Street Fighter II on SNES sold 6m copies and is still the best selling Street Fighter, nay the best-selling capcom game of all time? http://www.capcom.co.jp/ir/english/business/million.html

Then there were Mega Mans 1 to 6, Final Fantasy, 3 Castlevanias, 3 Ninja Gaidens, all excellent games with solid sales.

My times have changed if 3rd parties can't keep up with Nintendo... The only exception at the moment seems to be Capcom with MH 3G and RE:R.