| Soundwave said: Nintendo does need more diversity in their lineup. Too many mascot centric games. I know they love their cartoony designs, but when 80%+ of your releases could pass as a Saturday Morning Cartoon, you are going to have some issues in attracting a truly broad gamer audience. Their publishing in the 90s even was far more balanced, look at the N64's first three years 1996:
1997:
Yes quite a few mascot-ey games in there, but a fair number of games that weren't as well.
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I agree, things were a lot more balanced back during the previous eras of the N64 and GC. Nintendo does still take chances here and there but there was more Western targeted titles being released compared to what happened midway through the Wii's life cycle where Nintendo's top brass decided to put a muzzle on anything that isn't Mario, Donkey Kong, Kirby or Zelda. They seem to have relented with a few titles like Bayonetta 2 and Devil's Third but they still don't seem to give their groups as much freedom (probably due to rising development costs) or take more chances like they did in the first halves of the previous console and even the portable generation and it sucks for gamers.
