| HappySqurriel said: Over a 20+ year timeframe Nintendo has released the following main series Mario and Zelda games Super Mario Bros. (NES) The Legend of Zelda (NES) 7 games for each series which works out to (approximately) a game every 3 years ... This is not exactly "Milking" a franchise.
Certainly, Mario (as a character) appears in a lot of games ... but Nintendo is using Mario more as a celebrity actor to draw attention to these games. I suspect (but could be wrong) that this will become more common in the future and large publishers will use their mascot characters in as many different types of games possible to increase sales. We have already seen this happening with Sega's abuse of Sonic, and Microsoft is getting into this with Halo Wars. |
You forgot a lot of handheld titles... off the top of my head concerning Zelda (dunno about Mario)
Links awakening, Four Swords, Oracle of ages, Oracle of seasons, The Minish Cap and Phantom Hourglass. That's 13 over a 22 year period, or 1 each 1.7 year...
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