If Mario stops printing money they will.

wrong it's 1st party, great game especially on hacked Wii installed on HDD with Exp turned off

Wait for Retro's game.

Nintendo has their own little space etched out in the industry that they refuse to move out of, because it still sells so why bother with new IPs. They have made some good moves such as buying Monolith to expand their portfolio, though. Acquiring non-Nintendo studios to think outside their little box is a good idea for the company.

Xenoblade is a new Nintendo core IP, and upcoming we have Wonderful 101 which is a first party IP that was cancelled and brought back to be developed by PG.

I don't understand why some people think Xenoblade is a new IP. The Xeno series has been around for a long time, you'd think nobody has ever played Xenogears or Xenosaga. Just changing setting and/or combat system isn't enough to call it a new IP. Under that logic half the mainline and nearly all the side Final Fantasy games would be "new IP".

How exactly is Xenoblade a third party game? Monolith Soft is owned by Nintendo.

Xenoblade is a new IP since Nintedo does not own Xenosaga or Xenogears. The only thing thats similar is the use of Xeno in the name.


You also dont think Super Metroid  is the same IP as Super Mario right?  Just using Super in both games doesnt make it the same IP.  Same would go for Super Mario Kart and Super Mario world  also 2 different IPs.

Lol I see what you did there.

Wait. This is serious? Um ..

From my perspective, Nintendo needs either a change in leadership or a new management philosophy. If you have only the same people designing games for 20+ years, you're going to lack variety, which is what has happened. You're still going to make great games, that won't have changed, but they will follow established tastes.

They need to do more of what they've started to do, which is to mirror what Sony has done with Worldwide Studios, and work with promising and innovative third-party studios on new, exclusive IPs, with the possibility of purchasing that studio if things work out. I think that would be a great way to expand on the appeal of Nintendo consoles.

The other option would be to hire new blood, guys from other studios with impressive resumes. We're always hearing about how much money Nintendo has, so that would be the perfect way to use some of it. They could wrap up someone like that and give them their own internal team.

However, none of this is rocket science. That's how the rest of the industry works. Honesty, I think the success of the Wii made Nintendo management complacent and perhaps a bit arrogant. They figured they could throw a new twist on the hardware, keep making new versions of the same games, and the audience would still flock. Variety is the spice of gaming, though. They'll keep gamers with tastes that correspond perfectly with what they're doing, but they won't pick up very many new ones.

Nintendo, like Microsoft is doing now, could have their pick of the litter with developers. Only time will tell if they really are serious about drawing in new customers.

Xenoblade would be a new IP, if they didn't change the name of the game. It was named Xenoblade in honour of the creator of the Xeno series. (I may be wrong, but that is what I heard).

However, I do agree with you on that it is part of the Xeno- series.

Oh Rol...

...and for the record its second party, not third.