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bigtakilla on 31 May 2015
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Cloudman said:
bigtakilla said:

If Nintendo can get the stars of their titles back to being a household name (through movies and tv series) I think that could greatly effect next gen. It just depends on what they do with Universal.  

Remember when Nintendo was booming? They had the Super Mario Super Show, They had a Legend Of Zelda cartoon, they had Captain N and the N Team, they were freaking everywhere. 

I think that would be great personally, though maybe not everyone would agree that is enough. A lot of people do say they are getting tired of Ninten's usual IPs. Perhaps it would be good if they could make more new IPs that everyone can get behind? At least to get people to stop saying "Just Mario and friends again..."

But I agree that cartoons and movies would be great to see Ninten bring back. : )

Well, there is no one and done fix all for the situation. The big N pushing M rated titles this gen is helping I believe, and really besides game droughts I don't think there is anything more I could ask them as far as this gen. It'd be great if they could just finish 2016-2017 strong and get these droughts out of peoples minds before the next consoles drop. 

Basically, will getting their franchises back into the homes of consumers be the only thing they need to do? No, but it would be a massive first step, and one that I think is the most crucial. I think a lot of us can agree Nintendo's first MAJOR misstep this gen was no advertising, and a confusing name. Right now Nintendo has the tools on hand now to make sure their new system is properly advertised for, and the name should be a non issue anyways. I figured they wanted to go with the Wii because of its success in the past, I don't see them using the Wii branding in the future because no matter what you do now it will only make things more confusing.