Watching the Pokemon Special Event on Cartoon Network this morning, it struck me that Nintendo should release cartoons based on their biggest properties including Mario, Zelda, and Metroid to increase their Street Cred with today's younger gamers.
Pokemon seems to be perrenially popular with younger gamers, and one reason would be the immediacy that kids feel to the series due to its longrunning cartoon series; however, even with Nintendo's recent ad campaign featuring kids pitching Wii U's to their parents and extolling the virtues of being ableto play Super Mario 3D Worlds and The Legend of Zelda: The Windwaker on Wii U, I think that today's kids probably don't have the same connection to those games that kids of the past did. They've probably only heard about those series due to having parents that played Nintendo games in the 1980s and 1990s but probably don't really have a coonection to those games on a personal level and this could be seen from the fact that many of today's younger gamers would rather play Grand Theft Auto, Call of Duty, Halo, or Gears of War on their older sibling's game console than any of Nintendo's offerings.
I feel that if today's kids had high quality cartoons or animes based on the classic Nintendo properties ( the Pokemon ones always seem to be pretty good to excellent in my estimation ) that they could watch on Cartoon Network, for example, that that would actually go quite a ways in increasing today's kid's personal connection to games like Mario, Zelda, and Metroid and that that could be very beneficial to Nintendo in the long run. Maybe even creative ideas from the games and animes / cartoons could eve cross bleed into each other and bring new ideas into both future cartoons and games as seemingly to me with the Pokemon Series.
What do you think? Would cartoons based on their biggest traditional properties help Nintendo better connect with today's younger gamers?
