CaptainExplosion said:
But they've been putting much more effort into, and emphasis on, Mario games lately, at the expense of their less mainstream IPs. That's why it took us ages to get a new F-Zero, why Metroid was ignored for so long, and why Donkey Kong got nothing these past 3 years except a port of Tropical Freeze and DLC in Mario+Rabbids. |
Metroid was not ignored (what do you call Samus Returns?), it was missmanaged with Federation Force and Other M. Dread took so long because of the complex EMMI AI not being possible back then.
There are way more franchises than what you mentioned, that didn't get new entries for quite some time. Why I'm not complaining that much about that is because this year we got New Pokèmon Snap, Miitopia, which might lead to Tomodachi Life, Famicom Detective Club and we're getting the first new Wario Ware in over 10 years, Metroid Dread, Advance Wars and Mario Golf. That's seven IPs brought back in one year + Game Builder Garage as a new IP.
Bold: I wouldn't call Mario Golf: Super Rush a game that got alot of effort put into it. Same goes for Super Mario 3D All-Stars. The recent Mario Party games also have less boards than they used to have, doesn't scream "effort".
