| Rafie said: The bold in the post that you're replying to is what I believe he was ultimately saying. Also...he has a point. If Mario was the face of Splatoon, you would have gotten fans from others bashing it because they would say Nintendo can't do anything without Mario. Gotta give him a break here in there. Think about if there was always something with Master Chief from Halo in different Xbox games, or something with Kratos in different PlayStation games. People would get burnt out by those characters. He's not saying don't ever do another Mario game. Just give Mario a rest for a bit before introducing another Mario game. Oh and at your bolded. He's not the center of fighting games. That belongs to Street Fighter. Still Mario is popular in the field do to the brawler, Super Smash Bros. |
Mario's different because he can be placed into absolutely any setting, whereas Kratos can't be in a space station nor Masterchief in a basketball game. There's no conflict with Mario being in anything. He can be used as a tool to launch a new IP as well. Quite frankly, there's no new Nintendo IP that wouldn't see a huge boost by featuring Mario in its first outing, and it wouldn't be unnatural for him to be there.
Also, the Smash Bros franchise has only three games, at the moment.One is the best selling fighter of all time, and two of the top 3 fighters are Smash. On top of that, Smash is one of the youngest franchises in the genre. Take the three best sellers from any fighting franchise and they don't compete in sales with the Smash series.
