Lack of New Nintendo IPs

[Mnementh]

LurkerJ said:

Jumpin said:

Nintendo reinvented Zelda. Between those two games alone, over 53 million sales.

Reinventing old IPs is arguably a superior strategy to inventing new ones because it creates something new without throwing away tradition. Nintendo has done this since at least Donkey Kong Country; maybe even Super Mario Bros.

Exactly. A new hero shooter with new characters gets the “new IP” label despite being a clone of every other hero shooter out there.

On the other hand, re-inventing a game and its mechanics is somehow meant to be less impactful or meaningful because the characters are familiar.

Thankfully, Nintendo is less concerned with “new IP” than the gamers.

Yeah, creativity should be the goal. Sometimes that involves a new IP, sometimes not.