Creating New IPs Dilutes Nintendo's Franchise Output

[DanneSandin]

RolStoppable said:
There's nothing wrong with the amount of Mario games we are getting, I still say we aren't getting enough. The main series that is the tentpole for Nintendo as a company, Super Mario Bros., needs to see at least two installments per system. The people who complain the most are usually those who don't even bother to look at Nintendo's catalogue of games and are, for example, completely oblivious to the fact that Xenoblade Chronicles is a Nintendo game.

Nintendo's amount of IPs that are worth continuing on a financial basis is multiple times larger than any other company's and Nintendo isn't a big enough company to make sequels to everything on a regular basis. Essentially, no matter what games they choose to develop, there will always be something that is going to be left out. Whether that is a new IP, F-Zero, Star Fox or something else. The biggest drain on the company right now are console Zelda games which became so bloated that they take up the resources of four other Nintendo games put together (three digit team counts should be a no-go). Yet some people demand that Nintendo should spend even more time and manpower on these games which is detrimental to the amount of games Nintendo can make on the whole.

If I had to choose between the old or new, I would pick the old, because the chances that it's money and time well spent are higher.

I just wanna adress your comment on two installments of SMB on each console... Talk about saturation! I think that having 2 installments would canablize on each other, to an extent. And the series as a whole would get really stale. What I'd like to see is Nintendo giving 2D mario an AAA-treatment! I'm perfectly happy with having 1 3D Mario, 1 SMB, 1 DKC per console. Considering SMG2's sales numbers, a sequel doesn't do as well as the first installment, where the opposite is true in many cases.