kekrot on 25 February 2014
| MonstaTruk said: A bombardment of Mario, Zelda, Kirby & friends is what's put them between a rock and a hard place. |
That's the most correct sentence I've read today. 20 years ago a new Mario would be awesome, even 15 years ago. Mario saturation started just a little bit on the GC which was okay, and then Wii and DS and Wii U and 3DS came along with oversaturated franchises.
Now the word Mario seems "meh" to most consumers out there. Nintendo has done exactly what they set out to fight when they launched the NES, oversaturation.
Edit. Even though the games in the oversaturated franchises are generally of extremely high quality, I guess a new IP from Nintendo (which is not a four dollar downloadable Animal Crossing / Cooking Mama style game) might do wonders.
Yep.
