(Have some crow!) Nintendo showed incredible, hardcore, mature games and yet you complain about 3D Mario?

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Rogerioandrade said:
ah, right.. Bayonetta 2, Project X. They really seem great and I´m definetely going to buy them

The problem here are the 1st party productions. We all know that Mario games are always great and fun, but WiiU really needs something different to call people´s attention. Mario 3d, Mario Kart, SSB are just more of the same.

We know that Nintendo can deliver intense experiences - Kid Icarus Uprising on 3ds is a great example, an intense hybrid of shooter/action game with Nintendo typical fantasy, the result was just gorgeous. This was the right time for Nintendo to bring back those beloved franchises like Starfox, Metroid, F-Zero, or even another of those incredible sports games they did in the past, like Excitebike 64, Wave Race, 1080 Snowboarding.

Instead, they prefer just to play it safe right now, choosing their best-seller franchises.... but at the same time, it´s just more of the same, no real surprise, and that was a wasted opportunity. WiiU is the cheapest console right now and a few games with intense gameplay would definetely atract more gamers.

Project X is a first-paty title. I also wouldn't exactly call Mario Kart 8 more of the same.

That being said, I agree that Nintendo should do more. Not that they don't do anything (again, Project X is first-party), but it takes a lot to move the spotlight away from competing new hardware.