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FullMetalMerc on 03 May 2010
luvtospooge said:
And that Nintendo doesn't bring Mario over....

It would be havoc. Chicken would have teeth, snakes would fly, men would be supersaiyans...


Nah, I don't think they're THAT dumb.

supersaiyans that mad me laugh  :)



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Bamboleo on 03 May 2010
RolStoppable said:

Wouldn't that be insane? These two franchises are by far the biggest things they have, with individual installments capable of selling more than ten million copies. Imagine Sony and Microsoft not releasing a new iteration of their flagship titles for a whole generation. You would be wondering how stupid the people in charge at these companies are for not giving the consumers what they obviously want. Just the thought of this is ridiculous.

Do you think that any company would ever be dumb enough to abandon the biggest thing they've got?

Halo: CE               -         6.43M

Halo 2                   -        8.43M

Halo 3                   -        10.95M

- Halo 3: ODST      -        4.92M

 

Halo is not a 10M franchise.



Bamboleo on 03 May 2010
Games4Fun said:
I dont get why they have waited so long to release GT5 this gen

How is Sony supposed to counter Natal without the last epicly big exclusive franchise they have left that can be a true system seller?

We know Kilzzone 3 is coming, Uncharted 3, Resistance and bla bla. But none of those games have the capacity of being such a system seller as GT5.



Pyro as Bill on 03 May 2010

2D Mario + they didn't go out of business, they made more money than the competition. Not just any old flagship title but the King of Games itself.

2 generations is nothing. What's that 10 years? We went 18 friggin years! That's 4.5 Xbox generations. No, Allstars doesn't count and handheld Marios aren't true Marios, they're even less of a true Mario than SMB2. It's a damn good job they created the 2nd best game of all time, Mario Kart.



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Pyro as Bill on 03 May 2010

Imagine if Sony/MS only made one each of it's flagship titles per generation.



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Bamboleo on 03 May 2010
Squilliam said:
Imagine 2D Halo and 2D Gran Turismo.

Halo Zero would you mean?

It's even somehow listed on VGChartz:

http://www.vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=32367&region=All



Squilliam on 03 May 2010
Bamboleo said:
Squilliam said:
Imagine 2D Halo and 2D Gran Turismo.

Halo Zero would you mean?

 

It's even somehow listed on VGChartz:

http://www.vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=32367&region=All

Oh god thats terrible. I'll pretend it doesn't exist.



Tease.

Spedfrom on 03 May 2010

2D or 3D Mario is still Mario.

3D Sonic wasn't as popular as 2D Sonic but, for example, Sonic Adventure still sold relatively well. It wasn't for a lack of Sonic that SEGA went down, but for a myriad of variables.

The bottom line you're trying to convey is that Nintendo is so strong that even without their flagship franchise for two generations (a fallacy) they still managed to be successful.

Well, how about not having any Mario at all for one generation? Now the question this thread asks is a fairer one.



andremop on 03 May 2010

What's a spinoff GT?

"Now GT Gaiden... the same game, but now with only 500 cars!!!" ??

I can see spinoffs of halo, but not GT.
They have to do it every generation.



DM235 on 03 May 2010
RolStoppable said:
Spedfrom said:
2D or 3D Mario is still Mario.

3D Sonic wasn't as popular as 2D Sonic but, for example, Sonic Adventure still sold relatively well. It wasn't for a lack of Sonic that SEGA went down, but for a myriad of variables.

The bottom line you're trying to convey is that Nintendo is so strong that even without their flagship franchise for two generations (a fallacy) they still managed to be successful.

Well, how about not having any Mario at all for one generation? Now the question this thread asks is a fairer one.

1) 3D Mario is as much Mario as Halo Wars is Halo. A spinoff, not the big thing. The same goes for Sonic Adventure.

2) Of course there are plenty of reasons why Nintendo and Sega lost more and more marketshare, but not releasing their biggest guaranteed system sellers certainly made things even worse.

3) No, this isn't about how strong Nintendo and Sega performed without their flagship titles, I wanted to point how ridiculous and dumb it was from both companies to not make these games anymore.

4) You were missing the point. If you want a fairer question than it has to be "what if Sony and Microsoft would only release spinoffs of GT and Halo for the next 15 years?", because that's what Nintendo and Sega did.

Since Miyamoto worked on those games, I think it is unfair to call them spinoffs.  I think they were more his evolution of those games.

Unfortunately there was no 2D Mario platformer released to compare if sales would have flopped (because everyone wanted 3D), or it would have been a system seller.