I think they lack ambition when it comes to launching a new IP. Splatoon looks really fun and will probably turn out great but is it just a multiplayer thing or will there be a full story mode to it?

Nintendo's problem isn't a lack of new IPs, but an unwillingness to change. Nintendo's original MO with games came with the SNES, when games were aimed at children. These days most gamers are in their 20s or 30s, and fact is Mario doesn't interest them.

Really, Nintendo should have known this. Majora's Mask had a cool reception back in 2001 and was largely forgotten right after launch, but between 2005 and 2007 people started citing it as their favorite Zelda game. It's not because the new Zelda games were bad--were that true everyone would refer to Ocarina--but because these fans grew up and their tastes changed.

The story of Nintendo is a billion games which look fantastic for what they are, but don't really interest me. They could make the best Mario game of all time, but I'm really not interested.

This is a real shame. Nintendo can make some really mature stuff without going above an E rating, and with Bioware throwing in gay sex scenes just 'cuz, that's a really rare gift. It's a shame that the corporate marketing ploy will never let them use it

Thanks for being a condecending dick on the internet. It's a totally fresh and original approach...............

No really.

So you listed almost every IP ever made by intendo, but forgot the most important ones for Sony? You forgot Sony's 2 bestselling franchises: Gran Turismo and God Of War. You also listed a ton of game made by Nintendo which few even care about. Its insane how people an have such notions.

Among all first-party games Sony easily has the most variety in terms of genre. They publish FPS, TPS, Hack n Slash, Simulation Racing, Arcade Racing, 2D Platformer, 3D Platformer, 3D Fighter and Survival Horror, both in kiddy and photorealistic styles. Nintendo only makes the platformers, arcade racing, RPG and soon TPS, all with a touch of kiddiness to them.

Umm you need to do some research before you make claims. I can easily add more, but i think I made my point. Sony's offering pales in comparison

Actually that is really low. Let me list the Sony ones in the 7th and 8th generation.

FPS:

Killzone 2

Killzone 3

Killzone: Mercenary

Killzone: Shadow Fall

Resistance: Fall Of Man

Resistance 2

Resistance 3

Resistance: Burning Skies

TPS:

Uncharted: Drake's Fortune

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception

Uncharted: Golden Abyss

Socom 4: US Navy SEALs

Socom: Fireteam Bravo

Socom: Fireteam Bravo 2

Socom: Fireteam Bravo 3

Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain

Syphon Filter: Drak Mirror

Syphon Filter: Logan's Shadow

Pursuit Force

Pursuit Force: Extreme Justice

Resistance: Retribution

Hack n Slash:

God Of War: Chains Of Olympus

God Of War III

God Of War: Ghost Of Sparta

God Of War: Acsension

Simulation Racing:

Gran Turismo

Gran Turismo 5

Gran Turismo 6

Arcade Racing:

MotorStorm

MotorStorm: Pacific Rift

MotorStorm: Arctic Edge

MotorStorm: Apocalypse

Wipeout HD

Wipeout 2048

LittleBigPlanet Karting

ModNation Racers

ModNation Racers: Road Trip

2D Platformer:

LittleBigPlanet

LittleBigPlanet (PSP)

LittleBigPlanet 2

LittleBigPlanet PS Vita

Loco Roco

Loco Roco 2

LittleBigPlanet

3D Platformer:

Daxter

Jak And Daxter: The Lost Frontier

Sly Cooper: Thieves In Time

Knack

3D Fighter:

PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale

Survival Horror:

The Last Of Us

Sports:

MLB games yearly

Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee

Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee 2

Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational

Adventure:

Gravity Rush

Tearaway

Maybe cuz i didn't add all the games? Cuz there is to many to list between 4 platforms? 

That is still very low, if you don't count e-shop games.

Even my list is incomplete, so its all fair.

You should list the Wii version of TP (95), not the GC one (96). The GC version has 16 reviews listed, while the Wii version is sitting on 73. Always best to go with the larger sample size.

I have nothing else to add to the discussion, that just irked me for some reason

Nintendo's problem isn't lack of new IP, it lack of new IP that broaden's its base of appeal, and Nintendo fans who don't embrace that new IP because they are all getting older and don't like the G-ratedness of the new stuff but ignore the G-ratedness of the old stuff because it's the beloved franchises they grew up with.

And the old and new franchises have no appeal to the millions of long time gamers that have chosen PS/Xb for the last 2 generations and PS for the last 3 generations and are sticking with those for this generation. Where is the appeal to draw PS/Xb gamers over to Nintendo? It sure ain't Splatoon or Wonderful 101.

Nintendo keeps looking elsewhere for buyers of Wii U instead of looking at actual gamers. They found a new audience with Wii but they didn;t stick around, and now there's no new audience. If they want to grow they don;t just need new IP, they need new IP that PS/Xb/PC gamers want and can't have on any of those 3 platforms. If they don't want to grow their player base then they can keep on doing what they're doing.

Nintendo is fortunate in that they have the unique ability to not sell much hardware but still remain viable because their software does sell very well considering the size of their player base. If they don't perceive a pressing need to sell substantially more consoles they won;t make all that much effort to do so.