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Carl on 17 February 2013
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NintendoPie said:
Carl2291 said:

How many of them are DD games? Tell me. Please. I might not know of them because Nintendo give them bare minimum advertising and spend the majority of the budget on 3, maybe 4 Mario games a Year.

Look at how well Fire Emblem has done with a bit of attention from Nintendo. Imagine how well Xenoblade would have done if it had a Quarter of the ad budget that a Mario game gets... And if NoA actually wanted to release it instead of Wii Play: Motion.

We get it. Games with the Mario name on them sell well. If Steel Diver was "Mario Diver", it would have probably doubled in sales and hit the Million. The question that needs to be asked though is this - With the Billions made in the last 5 Years, why wont Nintendo push it into big new IP? If Nintendo really wanted the core market from PS360, then why arent they pushing the boundaries? I think its laziness, or lack of imagination or originality coming from the higher ups.

It's not laziness. And if you think Sony don't do this then you are kiding yourself, Carl. Every company does things that make them money.

Besides, Retro (part of Nintendo) is making a new IP. Things are going on in Nintendo's HeadQuarters that we just don't know about yet, and maybe they'll tell us these things at E3 this year.

It is laziness. Its being over-reliant on Mario. Just like Sony were over-reliant on 3rd parties. Microsoft are over-reliant on Halo... (Theyre doing something about this). Its why Nintendo havent come up with a character or universe that can match Mario, Zelda, Metroid or Kirby (The usual 4) in sales and quality.

Sony created a bunch of new games. Uncharted. Resistance. Motorstorm. inFamous. LittleBigPlanet. Heavenly Sword. Heavy Rain. New IPs with money behind them. They didnt make a new GT every 6 Months. They didnt make Unkarted. They didnt release Uncharted Party. They didnt release Uncharted Tennis. They arent about to release Uncharted Sticker Star. They dont have Super Uncharted RPG in the works and they sure as hell arent going to be making Super Princess Elena.

Sony in 2013 already have The Last of Us and Beyond to add to those new IPs. Sony spent some money and its paying off. Microsoft are spending a fuck ton of money strengthening the 1st party options...

And Nintendo are releasing Mario games. If you wsnt proof of Nintendos over-reliance on Mario, then look at the Wii Us launch. They thought and expected that Mario would carry them through to the Summer...