New Super Mario Bros. 2 announced for 3DS!!! Hitting the World and eShop(!) in August!

[kitler53]

VicViper said:

kitler53 said:

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actually i had completely forgotten that one... i was referring to mario tennis.    

so do you think little big planet and little big planet karting are not the same IP?  cause that sounds pretty wrong to me.  how about ratchet and clank vs. ratchet and clank all 4 one -- quite different experiences afterall.

Definitely not the same IPs. I've never played those, but if they're as dfferent as you say they shoud be considered different ips too, why not?

Depends on how the world sees them, I suppose, and in the case of ratchet and clank I believe the world sees them both as 3D plattformers, so they're stuck in the same genre, and therefore are more compared between them. It's very different than the Mario situation, where there's a 2D platformer, 3D platformer, Racer, RPG and Sports game.

LBP Kart and LBP are most definitely not the same IP, imo.

and i say that despite the clearly different game play, the way the world sees them is all mario.  there is a reason nintendo puts mario in the titles of each.  that's the IP that customers are identifying with and using to make purchase decisions.  the word mario does more to describe the game play of each of those games then the genre itself.  

think of it like this.  halo megabloks vs. halo.  clearly far more distinguishes these two products than the mario games you listed but it's still the halo IP that is being used to sell.