Zero999 said:
prayformojo said:
superhippy420 said:
prayformojo said:
Between 1996 and 2002, we had a grand total of TWO, yes two, main Mario tiles on home consoles. Since 2007, we have had SIX games, if you include Luigi U. That's the problem. Not even Mario is impervious to overkill and it's up to Nintendo to put the brakes on and retire the little guy for awhile. |
Luigi U is DLC first of all. No one counts RDR Undead Nightmare as an entire new entry. 2nd of all the Gamecube was the lightest on Mario Content for any Nintendo console and the NES and Wii were the heaviest and which one did the best. I think the NSMB series needs to retire for a while but Mario sells the most consoles. No one even uses Mario in Super Smash Bros but they stick him on the front every time because people recognize it and that matters.
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Attributing the Wii's success to Mario is a bit of a stretch. I'd say motion controls and Wii Sports had a little more to do with that system selling well than Mario. Secondly, everything can get old...every...thing. Mario is not above milking. It's something the old Nintendo boss figured out and did so well. Between 1985 and 2002 there were 6 new main console Mario games. That's 17 YEARS...and only 6 games. Since 2006, a span of just 7 years, we've had 5 EXCLUDING Luigi.
So let me repeat. 17 years, 6 games. 7 years, 5 games. Enough said. It's just too much, and they need to put him on ice before it gets worse.
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on 3 consoles, right? and the consumers are certainly not complaining.
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Yes and no. A lot of people are opting to ignore the Wii U even with two Mario platformers. NSMB2 sales are also way down from the previous installments, indicating that a lot of people got their fill of 2D Mario for the time being.
But I think the problem is less with Mario than the fact Nintendo has been lazy in expanding their genre offerings around Mario. Now that the Wii Sports/Brain Trianing/Nintendogs crazes have run dry, I think Nintendo has sorta panicked and relied pretty much solely on Mario to move hardware (and Pokemon on handhelds).
