| Carl2291 said: 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... |
Sony did release LBP Karting. Sony did release several Uncharted's. Like I said, all of the companies do this.
You can't pick out Mario because that's what you see a lot, no freaking duh it's what you see a lot. It's what works for them, it's what sells for them, and for many people Mario is why they buy Nintendo consoles.
Nintendo are catering to a large crowd with these Mario offerings. You're right, though, Sony won't release Uncharted Sticker Star, it wouldn't work. But guess who it does work for? Nintendo.
And let me ask you this, do you think Pokemon is milked? Maybe you do, but you still really like Pokemon, right? Is there a problem with that? Heck no! Nintendo and The Pokemon Co. are catering to your tastes, that's why you like it and that's why you keep coming back. Do you see me buying up all the Uncharted games that Sony has released? No. That's because I don't like it. And thats where many people get it wrong. It's our own opinion. And many, many people have the opinion that they want more and more Mario. So Nintendo provides it.
But I do agree with you on some points. I never thought that releasing just NSMBU was a good idea. Nintendo does need more than Mario, but this just brings me back to my point about catering to different crowds.
(Sorry if that was a mish-mash to read, I just threw everything I pretty much had in that post. 
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