Splatoon: "If it were mario, we wouldn't be able to create a new IP"

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spemanig said:

curl-6 said:

In other words, trading short term profit for long term damage to the company's reputation among the gamers it depends upon for survival.

I'd love to see how many of those guys changed their tune and decided, "oh boy! A new IP!? From Nintendo!? NOT Mario!? I'm definitely going to buy a Wii U for this could-have-been-a-mario-game-but-isn't now! Nintendo has redemed themselves!!!"

No one who want's Mario gone wanted Splatoon or W101 instead. That doesn't change anything. This helps nothing.

People want to see fresh new content from Nintendo. A new IP provides this.

The "all they do is rehash Mario" stigma has been a blight on their image for a while now, Mario Paintball would have made it worse.