Sakurai wonders where the ‘new’ Nintendo characters are

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I imagine a lot of people would get upset if they dropped making new games of old series too.

Just look at the enormous number of series:

AC
Donkey Kong
F-Zero
Fire Emblem
Golden Sun
Kid Icarus
Kirby
Mario platformer
Mario Party
Mario Kart
Mario Tennis
Metroid
EarthBound/Mother
Mii series
Paper Mario
Pikmin
Pokemon
Star Fox
Smash Bros
Zelda

That's their main series, Wario Ware and such have been excluded.

That's 21 series. Nintendo has 4000 empolyees.

Also keep in mind that some series, like Zelda and Mario Party, oftenly has 2 game releases over the 5 years of the console.

Kid Icarus and Golden Sun are both minor majors, but look how upset people are because they can't get a new game in the series.

Let's say they have 25 games they want to release over the entire console's era. They have to release those 25, or the series will lose some of its popularity.

How many games will they manage to sell in a year? 6? One each 2nd month? I'll say 6.

That means that they have titles for 4 years, and they need 5ish original titles. Maybe more if they sell games faster than every second month.