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newwil7l on 02 August 2017
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Aeolus451 said:
newwil7l said:

You have to be joking. Mario is a far more recognizable brand worldwide than Pokemon (although Pokemon is much more lucrative) and it has been restricted to gaming since the mid 90s when Nintendo got more conservative with their IPs. It is definitely changing now with the future theme parks and rumored Nickelodeon show.

 

The anime isn't that popular anymore and you are really overestimating the exposure a cartoon will have especially when kids are less and less reluctant to watch TV these days. And are you seriously insane? How can you think Zelda is next in line? Nintendo has enough with Mario and Pokemon to get enough kids to buy into the Switch with their brand alone through gaming. They don't need outside exposure.

Mario could be argued that it as well known as pokemon but do people really care about it outside of gaming? No. A lot of people know of the beatles but do they listen to it or buy anything related to them? A few do but the mass majority of people don't care. Mario is like the beatles in that sense outside of gaming.  Pokemon is in a league of it's own in terms of brand awareness, the range of products that are attached to it and it's reach. Just look at how popular pokemon go is. 

If no one cared about it outside of gaming, Universal wouldn't have bothered workig with Nintnedo to create Mario theme parks. Also if I remember correctly Super Mario Run was downloaded faster than Pokemon Go and any other app on history. The 10 price tag killed it though and was a colossal screw up.