Nintendo has made 71 Brand new Franchises Since 2001

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VanceIX said:

KLXVER said:

VanceIX said:

KLXVER said:

 

• Pikmin -> 2013
• Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem
• Animal Crossing -> 2012
• Battalion Wars
• Chibi-Robo -> 2014
• Art Style -> 2010
• Wii series -> 2014 (Wii Sports Club)
• Endless Ocean -> 2009
• Xenoblade Chronicles -> 2015
• The Last Story -> (first game was in the last 6 years)
• Wonderful 101 -> (first game in the last six years)
• Splatoon -> (first game yet to be released)
• Golden Sun
• Kuririn
• Starfy
• Rhythm Tengoku -> 2011/2012
• Nintendogs -> 2011
• Big Brain Academy
• Brain Age -> 2012 (also the same IP as Big Brain Academy in my book)
• Clubhouse Games
• Elite Beat Agents
• Hotel Dusk: Room 215
• Trace Memory
• Soma Bringer
• Fossil Fighters -> announced for future release
• Codename S.T.E.A.M -> first game yet to be released
• Steel Diver -> 2013
• Tomodachi Life -> 2014 (is successor to Tomodachi Collection)
• Harmo Knight
• Pushmo -> 2014
• Dillon’s Rolling Western -> 2013

These games are either newer IPs, popular franchises or got a great score.

And yet the vast majority will never see a sequel. Not really keeping a franchise afloat if the first game is the only game.

Bolded all games that have 2 or more games in the franchise.

And how many of them have had any sort of sequel in the last few years? A lot of them had a mediocre sequel that ended the franchise. A lot of those franchises haven't seen a new game in 6+ years.

I count 14 IP's that had sequels in the last 6 years. Much more than your six. I don't know about some of these games, so it might be more. Add to this the completely new IPs like Splatoon, that you can't call dead if they have just released one game or not even have released the first game.