RolStoppable said:
Most of the hate Malstrom gets is because people are oblivious to a lot of his other blog posts, so they just assume he is an extremist. He actually doesn't want 3D Mario to be gone completely. What he wants is that Super Mario Bros. and 3D Mario should remain two separate series and also AAA treatment for Super Mario Bros. But when you consider the absence of a Super Mario Bros. announcement and what Super Mario 3D Land was, it's quite obvious that the game was meant to absorb Super Mario Bros.; Miyamoto's outspoken love for 3D Mario and distaste for Super Mario Bros. only strengthens this belief. It's not Malstrom who is the evil being here, it's Nintendo who wishes that one of these two series ceases to exist. Like you say, there is no reason why we can't have both. Neither is there a reason why these two series cannot co-exist. It's just developers inside Nintendo, specifically Miyamoto, who do not wish to make certain games for purely selfish reasons. When Super Mario Galaxy 2 and NSMB Wii were announced at E3 2009, it didn't hurt either game. But on the 3DS we got the situation that Super Mario Bros. was announced during an investor's briefing without showing any screenshots or a trailer. It is as if there were no plans to even make this game, despite NSMB selling more than 25m copies on the DS. Co-existence is perfectly possible, but it looks like somebody is vehemently against this idea. Malstrom wouldn't attack Super Mario 3D Land at all, if Super Mario Bros. got the treatment it rightfully deserves. But as long as there is a problem, he won't shut up on this issue. And it clearly is an issue; not just for gamers, but also for Nintendo as a business. |
With "same threatment" what do you mean time, number of releases, graphics?