Inafune:‘If a Creator Hasn’t Played Mario, They’re Probably not a good Creator’

[HoloDust]

That's really silly statement - game genres are not like movies genres, so that they build, more or less, upon common ancestry. What's P&C Adventures, Turned-based military strategies or Flight simulators, to name just few (and there are A LOT others), got to do in common with Mario games?