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Twilord on 14 April 2015
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rolltide101x said:
zelmusario said:
17 years, wow. When I see the numbers like that, it is kind of interesting why Nintendo gets the "rehash" label slapped on them so often. There have only been 4 Yoshi games in the last 17 years since Yoshi's Story.


Because Yoshi games aren't that big in the scheme of things? Nintendo is definitely the worst about rehashing games. In fact they are probably the most guloty party of that in all of video games except possibly Omega Force. (Dynasty Warriors, Samurai Warriors etc.)

 

Not necessarily a bad thing but its the way it is. (For the record im a HUGE fan of Warriors games, moderate Nintendo fan)

 

 

Years : All New-Installments – ratio

 

 

3D Platforming Mario – 6:19  (6  ~ 1996)
6:19  = 1 game every 3.16 years

 

Physical Retail Uncharted – (4 ~ 2007)
4:8 = 1 game every 2 years

 

FPS Halo – (6 ~ 2001)
6:14 = 1 game every 2.33 years

 

Physical Retail Home Console Assassin's Creed – (9 ~ 2007)
9:8 = 1 game every 0.88 years

3D Legend of Zelda – (5 ~ 1998)
5:17 = 1 game every 3.4 years

 

Gears of War – (4 ~ 2006)
4: 9 = 1 game every 2.25 years

 

Physical Retail God of War – (6 ~ 2005)
 6:10 = 1 game every  1.66 years

 

Physical Retail Call of Duty – (13 ~  2003)
13:12 = 1 game every 0.92 years

 

Now if you want to talk about overusing their characters then that is another story. One I’m hopeful they’re resolving with Splatoon and Codename STEAM. Personally the only reason I really see it as an issue  is for getting more unique characters in Smash Bros! xD

(Not that they’ve tapped all their series though at least. As cool as new stuff like Splatoon looks, Codename STEAM sounds, and Xenoblade is, I’d say Nintendo need to “rehash” other franchises a bit more. :p)

 

Seriously though, accusing Nintendo of rehashing is bizarre when frankly, even for Mario and Zelda, the annoyance in reality is actually having to wait, even if we understand that their philosophy in game design is what fuels their produce being so good.

 

Anyway, I welcome having my research verified in case I’m misrepresenting something through human error.