| spurgeonryan said: Remember the days of Mario 1-3 on NES when each game was amazing ? Well, maybe not Mario 2, but it certainly was different and a fun adventure! Then we had the Snes years! Mario Land was an amazing game! Yoshi and secrets and star worlds and a different game once you beat it. Lets not forget the other Mario games during the Snes era, but for this thread I will forget them for now. Then Mario 64....sweet! We get to play mario in 3D, finally! It did not disappoint and gave the N64 a good initial boost until it got hit with it's near record game drought that rivaled the Wii U's actual record. Mario Party would help continue Mario's bodacious image through his misstep in Sunshine on the GC. Then the Wii came and we not only got Mario Galaxy, but also another highly rated and loved game in Mario Galaxy 2. I do not mean to downplay the success of New super mario bros Wii, but I think that sold well more because of the wii/casual hype over it being actually cool. Bring in the Wii U. Mario is cool no more. Sure there is Mario Kart 8 and Smash U, which both have Mario in them, but are not popular or cool because of Mario. Sales of Mario games on the U are because of bundles and from people hoping he will be all that and a bag of marbles again. Still fun to play with, but not the kid in school who smokes and has a hustler with girl on girl action in it. If you check any poll, try Conegamers Nintendo thread on vgchartz.com, you will see Zelda dominating Mario. Zelda is still cool after all these years and on the Wii U he will be thd kid in school who always has alcohol, and lives in his parents pool house. Please Nintendo, make Mario cool again! Because although Marioworld was fun, I did not care to ever touch it, and even after playing it feel like I just played with my childhood Elementary school friend for the last time before moving on to my new group of friends in high school. |
The moment Sega of America decided to market the Genesis as the "cool" console and paint the NES/SNES and it's IP for babies, it was over. Mario has done well commercially, sure. But the imagine of being cool is gone and gone for good lol.
