Nintendo on facebook - Year of Yoshi?

[Scizor_99]

Ninricken said:

Scizor_99 said:
I hope not. They need to do a year of [something non-Mario related]. Even Nintendo fans (myself included) are starting to get tired with the emphasis on that character IP, even if it's with games from multiple different genres. Year of Link? Samus? New IPs? Mario, Luigi, Yoshi & friends honestly need a bit of a break.

Exactly because they have to change their target group. The casual gamers and the families have a Wii, they don't want to pay so much money of a better version of it and often didn't heard about the Wii U. Now the 3DS is more popular but it was nothing different. They have just the option to make more games the gamers want or make the Wii U so cheap that even a casual gamer or families buy it.

I don't think that casuals and families would necessarily buy the Wii U if it were cheaper; I don't know why people are acting like the console will rebound if they implement a massive price drop. Casuals, as you said, simply don't see the value in an upgraded Wii and are turned of by the Gamepad, not to mention that many don't even know what a Wii U is. I think they need to focus on doing what they can to make the Wii U a more desirable product rather than simply dropping the price.

Regardless, I don't think that what it's the "Year of" really matters to anyone except hardcore gamers on the Internet. It's just better if we get a focus something that isn't Mario-related. We all love Mario and NIntendo's platfromers, but if they become overused then people will start to get bored and the games will lose their selling power. Nintendo's made fantastic games in many other genres and has many other IPs; they just have to use them. I think it will pay off for them in the long-term.