Mario is to blame for Nintendo's financial troubles?

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ryuzaki57 said:
This article has it right. The growing domination of Mario games on Nintendo's systems hurts third parties and thus makes it difficult to broaden the audience. 3DS is a perfect example : Mario games are still in the top 10 in every market while smaller releases drop like a rock (when they can manage a decent opening).

This isn't what the article is saying. It's saying Nintendo should stop making so many Mario games in favour of pursuing DLC and small downloadable games themselves.

Third parties are unrelated to this.