Nope. Mario Maker is their attempt at satisfying those who want a regular fix.
Yearly releases shouldn't even be a thing in any franchise. Sports games could easily be managed through patches or DLC.
Should NSMB be an annual franchise? | |||
| Definitely! | 19 | 18.10% | |
| I don't really care... | 19 | 18.10% | |
| No, the games are bad already. | 49 | 46.67% | |
| See results | 18 | 17.14% | |
| Total: | 105 | ||
Nope. Mario Maker is their attempt at satisfying those who want a regular fix.
Yearly releases shouldn't even be a thing in any franchise. Sports games could easily be managed through patches or DLC.
Yeah, no.
2D Mario's gameplay hasn't evolved since Super Mario World back in the SNES. The only major change the NSMB subseries has experienced between the original and the Wii U one is adding 3 more players. Of all Nintendo's core series, NSMB is by far the most creatively bankrupt and the only one that I truly consider to be pretty much the same game over and over, and making it annual would only make things worse and make me and a number of other people lose respect for Nintendo.
No thanks! Too much of a good thing makes it a boring thing
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| st0pnsw0p said: Yeah, no. 2D Mario's gameplay hasn't evolved since Super Mario World back in the SNES. The only major change the NSMB subseries has experienced between the original and the Wii U one is adding 3 more players. Of all Nintendo's core series, NSMB is by far the most creatively bankrupt and the only one that I truly consider to be pretty much the same game over and over, and making it annual would only make things worse and make me and a number of other people lose respect for Nintendo. |
This pretty much sums up my thoughts on this. I honestly wouldn't be able to stand a 2d mario game every year, sure I wouldn't have to buy it but it would be taking up valuable time from devs who could be doing more.

| Mystro-Sama said: Not so sure that's a good idea. The Mario brand is already dying but Miyamoto is convinced it's Nintendo's Micky. |
Mario is gaming's Mickey. The brand isn't going anywhere, and it definitely isn't dying.
spemanig said:
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Sales seem to be saying otherwise. Mario use to move serious units.
No sir, games that are yearly most the time get worse and worse with each entry. If anything they should do 1 per console (handheld and console)
| Mystro-Sama said:
Sales seem to be saying otherwise. Mario use to move serious units. |
36m+ games in the Mario brand, not counting Smash, sold on the 3DS alone in just 3 years, but sure, the Mario brand is dying.