8th gen Nintendo published titles, could Nintendo support themselves with a unified concept?

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DélioPT said:

zorg1000 said:

DélioPT said:
^ To me the best part would be that Nintendo would be forced to either revive old IPs (Wave Race, Earthbound, etc.) and/or create new ones!

Yep, no longer will there be the need to make 2 entries of all their primary franchises which will allow them to branch out make more new ip or revive old ones.

Yeah. One of the things i really miss is those days where you anxiously waited for the next Mario or next Zelda.

I think they are overusing their biggest franchises and not really working hard to create new heavyweights. Some Wii series games did that but those days seem to be gone.
Splatoon is a great step in that direction and all the attention it has got so far shows that Nintendo knows they need something more and they should continue doing that.

Nintendo has developed/published a pretty decent amount of new ip this gen, Steel Diver, Wonderful 101, Dillon's Rolling Western, Pushmo/Crashmo, Splatoon, Codename S.T.E.A.M, Devil's Third, among other and revived some old series like Kid Icarus, Luigi's Mansion, Pilotwings, Star Fox but it would be nice to see more of this and really push some new ip, many of those listed titles flew under the radar because Nintendo didn't advertise/market them like they should have.

I also agree that Nintendo relies on certain franchises like Mario/Pokemon/Zelda too much which gives them too many entries, about 1/3 of the list in the OP belong to these 3 franchises either in mainline entries, remakes or spinoffs. Mario/Pokemon don't need 10 spinoff series and Zelda doesn't need 3 remakes per generation. Cut down on these franchises a bit and let new ones share the spotlight.