Nintendo's reluctance to build new IP's is killing their brand

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Purple said:

Lucas-Rio said:
The opening message start on a wrong assumption.

Nintendo franchises are not declining. The problem lay in the hardware, the marketing, the pricing, not in the software. Nintendo is back at the GC level and it has nothing to do with a lack of "new IP".

The only thing that allow the Wii U to survive is Nintendo franchise. Without that, the Wii U would have died already.

New IP are just an old fantasm of pseudo hardcore gamers with no influence on the market, nothing more.

Please list three Nintendo franchise that have experienced growth between Wii/DS and Wii U/3DS.

I'll be impressed if you can do one actually.

The bolded is just patently wrong. As I have shown, the success of the Wii was mainly built on the success of new IP to the Wii/DS generation.

Thats a bit unfair considering Wii and DS have sold 250m combined compared to 50m combined this gen. It would be interesting to see the tie in ratios, i dont know the numbers but take NSMBU for example, that has sold about 4.5m on a 7.4 million install base. That is an insane tie in ratio.