Malstrom: "My purpose is to reveal and inform people about Nintendo."

[theprof00]

RolStoppable said:

theprof00 said:

What I'm saying, since they release a 3d mario every year, is what would happen if they released a 2d mario every year? Surely SM3DL wouldn't have toruble selling against a game with 4 successive iterations, eh?

It would have trouble, because the demand for 2D Mario is significantly bigger. Even if you want to assume a decline of 50 % for 2D Mario due to oversaturation (which is absurd, given the historical data we have), these sales would still beat 3D Mario.

It's just, I can't understand Nintendo being so boneheaded. Surely they've done research on it. They have at least two or three brilliant minds over there, 1 more if you include Reggie, and they can't figure something like that out?

How can they be so right with the wii and absolutely nailing the audience, and then completely miss out something so simple? Is it simple bias that prevents them from doing so? And if that's true, then why be planning to make another 2d zelda? Why go "nearly" completely 2d with metroid?