ur not realy that inpritiational no. I just like to find out other people's opinions ^^ yh but never before have sony and microsoft been using the technoligy themselves. they may nothave usd it in games yet but anyone can see its going to be MASSIVE. as data takes up more room we need bigger hardrives which cos more and more. ot there is plan B. make a infinite storage lace that can run aything.

 Nothing wrong with using big franchises along the side of new ones like every company. If they didnt people would just be screming for them like they do now for some of them. It would be a stupid move not to make them. ( I think they have learned that from New Super Mario Bros. Sells)AS for the rereleases. They sell bucket loads so who can blame them? I own  many of them myself and will probably own more in the future. Why? I find them just that dam good.

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I going to quote myself just so everyone can see my original post which shits all over the argument that Nintendo doesn't create new IPs.

And I would also like to add in Steel Diver for next generation.  It's a so called 'hardcore' new IP based around warfare.  Surely you people recognise that?

Nintendo created a new IP. It became the best selling game of all time.

Im never going to understand how this myth got started that they dont.

This depends on what you mean by franchise? Franchise is generally more then one title. As such I can think of three newer franchises. Pikmin, Animal Crossing and CustumRobo. Now their are others like BattalionWars, Nintendogs and Brain Training that came out more recently.

I think Nintendo right now is focused on existing IP's whether they are forgotten or used alot. Take Kid Icarus for example their hasn't been a KI game in over 10 years. Metroid Prime their hadn't been a Metroid game in a long time.

Also I remember Nintendo launching Giest and Eternal Darkness during the GameCube era. I think if studios like Retro decide they want to make a new IP I don't think Nintendo would disagree. I have to admit other publishers are launching far more new IP's then Nintendo.

But Nintendo doesn't need to define itself with new IP's like say Microsoft. Even Sony needs fresh blood more then Nintendo. I think Nintendo will do just fine creating 2-3 franchises a generation or two.

The question should be, why in the hell does Nintendo have to create new characters when the ones they have had from the 1980s sell in the tens of million no matter which gen they appear in?

The obvious counter argument is, with Sony and Microsoft creating new IPs such as Halo, God of War, Gears of War, Uncharted, Viva Pinata, and on, Nintendo is losing the young gamers because they are growing up on what their big brother is playing. Since little brothers look up to big brothers as a role model, they will gain some of the biases their older brothers have against other games.

Problem is, older brothers like me grew up on Nintendo games. We may be playing more mature games now, but that does not mean there is no nostalgia.

Nostalgia is underrated, Nintendo knows this and this is why they drop a core game once to twice a generation. They understand that if you go the Tony Hawk route with franchises, then in a couple of generations the game will have had so many bad sequels and crossovers, any sense of nostalgia is equally weighted against a craptastic game like Green Day: Rock Band, Call of Duty: World at War, any game with LEGO in it, and on.

 Nowadays, publishers have such a short-term, quarter by quarter outlook they lose sight of what made a franchise great and sacrifice it on the 2K"fill in the year" altar because they need to meet their internal expectations. You see this right now with Call of Duty and Assassin's Creed. Both had games in 2009, released a new game in 2010, and will release another in 2011.

It is only a matter of time before annual releasing of Call of Duty and Assassin's Creed milks the franchise out of any nostalgia milk. Once the nostalgia is gone, a new franchise will replace it and the cycle of killing a great game will continue.         

If I hadn't played them, since I don't own a Nintendo console, then they don't exist.

They can't exist if I don't know about them, right?

You know, like when I cover my eyes and don't see people around me. That means they don't see me, neither.

the saddest thing is that looking at this thread I think you're right

The statement, which is wrong, that 'Nintendo has no new IPs' annoys me even more than 'the PS3 has no games' and almost as much as 'If a game isn't filled with Sex, bloody violence and drugs it isn't "mature" or "hardcore"'.