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NoirSon on 19 June 2013
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Soundwave said:
cunger said:
happydolphin said:
cunger said:

I largely agree for story based games but when it is a gameplay based game and you vastly change the gameplay fun element in future releases of a game it doesn't make a difference.

Plus.. Nintendo does create new IP like Wii Sports, Pikmin, Wii Fit, Xenoblade, Project X, The Wonderfull 101...   I know peeps are gonna be like Wonderfull 101 isn't made by Nintendo but there are many examples of Sony doing this and nobody cares. Sony doesn't own the studio making The Order for example as that dev made a wii game too. But who cares. If you publish and fund a game for your console it's first party.

I know, but some people are craving for a new IP from the house that Mario built (or from the house that built Mario :P). I personally couldn't care too much as long as my tastes are met with Smash, pikmin and 3D Mario (even 3DW). 

I still agree with your 1st party is 1st party argument though.


Personally i'm not really craving for one.   I get plenty of new ips on PS4..  I would much rather Nintendo returned to old IP's like Star Fox, F-Zero, Kid Icarus, Ice Climbers, ect ect then spend their time on a new IP. 


It's actually Nintendo that's short changing themselves by not creating new character IP that might appeal to a new audience though. Because a lof of their current IP appeal to the same narrow "Nintendo fan" demographic, if they were to create a new franchise like say "The Last of Us" and actually market it, their overall brand appeal would increase moreso than say making another ... Donkey Kong platformer.

They will occassionally invest in IP like X/Bayonetta 2 from other studios, but their core teams generally never work on things like that. It's a corporate culture I don't see changing until Miyamoto's role in the company is reduced, because I think his idea of what Nintendo should be is a company that basically operates around a handful of "family friendly" IP.

It is not so much that Nintendo needs new IPs, they need to better promote the ones they do have.

Looking at Nintendo's full stable of franchises, there are only a few genres they don't already have a representative in or one that couldn't be converted. If they wanted a RTS game aside from Pikmin, Advance War or Fire Emblem are easy converted, FPS, Metriod, Star Fox or once again Advance War are possibile candidates besides creating a new IP. The problem comes in execution, Other M and Star Fox Assualt both suffered from being put on the backs of other companies and the vision of them being outside what the fanbase wanted in the franchise, and promotion the lack of fanfare for the Wii version of Punch Out! or F-Zero games.

Sadly, even though they are creating new games, I don't see this problem changing anytime soon, as no doubt either Pikmin 3 or Wonderful 101  are going to wind up doing badly, because Nintendo is going to cheap out on the advertising and marketing despite the games themselves perhaps being quality products. Meanwhile, they will probably wind up throwing a massive amount of promotion into 3/4s of the Mario games while the other franchises are throw out into the vacuum of the market without muc more then a few trailers.