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richardhutnik on 27 June 2012
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NightDragon83 said:
richardhutnik said:
NightDragon83 said:
Don't hate on him at all... I just hate the fact that for the better part of the 90s and '00s we had to wait an average of 5 years for a proper Mario game (while getting dozens of spinoffs in the process), and now we're getting flooded with copy and paste Mario titles PLUS the neverending barrage of spinoffs.

If it's not one extreme with Nintendo, it's the other.

Would the games they release be better if Mario wasn't in them?  I say the spinoffs.

In regards to the regular Mario games, there is Mario in 2D and Mario in 3D.  Nintendo also has been releasing new consoles and people want Mario for them.  And then, you have success with some of the older franchises, like Mario RPG stuff, so those get new titles.  

Whether or not Mario is in the spinoffs isn't the point.  The point is between 1991-2006 (that's 15 years) we got a whopping 4 legit Mario games (not counting any of the handheld ones).  SMW, Yoshi's Island, Mario 64, and Sunshine.  Then started the Mario renaissance with NSMB and Galaxy a year apart, OK great, we're getting new 2D and 3D Mario games simultaneously, nice!

But then... we get NSMB Wii, Galaxy 2, Super Mario Land 3D, NSMB2 (?) and NSMBU all within a span of 3 years.  We've got more Mario games in 3 years than we did from the entire SNES-GameCube era, and all of them borrow and recycle from previous games instead of innovating and bringing new stuff to the table, especially the NSMB series... it's like the direct-to-video Disney flicks that just rehash the old classics with nothing new or original.

What is the difference this time around?

During this 3 year time period, there has been a release of a new handheld system, that got a 3D title for it, and will be getting a new 2D title for it.  And then add on top of that, since you mentioned NSMBU, that there there will be a new home console released.  End result is a number of new Mario titles, which so happens to correspond with Nintendo deciding to have actual Mario titles on their systems early, closer to launch.  And you had a 2D Mario title released later in the lifecycle of the Wii (a 2D one).

Are you missing the fact that two new systems are part of Nintendo's serving the market here, and they were getting Mario titles early?