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Should Nintendo Give Mario A Rest?

Should Nintendo Give Mario A Rest? CouchJockey D Gives his thoughts on should Nintendo Give Mario a Rest?

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ape0074606d ago (Edited 4606d ago )

Mario is the Core of nintendo, Heck the core of all gaming, so it can't take a rest

honestly the REAL mario games are few and far between, cannot wait for Super Mario 3D world, not that NSMB series is bad, they're great but i don't consider them REAL MARIO GAMES

colonel1794605d ago

It might be the core of Nintendo, but recently they have abused of it. We used to get one Mario game each generation, and 1 or 2 at most each handheld generation. With the Wii, it was great to see a direct sequel for the first time, but it should have stopped there. Nintendo now is totally milking Mario, and even though they are not as big and don't have the same production value as Mario Galaxy 1&2, it still Mario and it does get tired.

They should have kept all the resources spent on NSMWii, NSMWiiU and 3D World, to make a AAA Mario game for the Wii U in the next year or two. People would have gone nuts about it.

Also, they have a lot of franchises that they could revive, instead of making mario games: Starfox hasn't been done since the gamecube (and properly since the N64), F-Zero, Metroid, Kid Icarus, Wave Race, etc.

I love Mario as much as everyone else, but they have really outdone it this time, even if 3D world still looks fun to play.

PopRocks3594605d ago

"I love Mario as much as everyone else, but they have really outdone it this time, even if 3D world still looks fun to play"

Doesn't this statement alone nullify your entire post? If the games still feel fresh and are fun to play, who cares which mascot's name is in the title?

That said, they could do well to release a few less Mario games each year. Sonic had an abundance of games between 2005 and 2011 and that led to the hedgehog's new found reputation as a dead or dying franchise.

UltimateMaster4605d ago (Edited 4605d ago )

Nintendo needs to show more love to other of their IP games other than Mario and Miis.
They also need to create more new games that aren't part of Miis nor Mario.
And when you do make a new console, upgrade the graphics as well, don't rehash the same thing that was on Wii.

BullyMangler4605d ago

mario games is the king of pLatformity < fact

can i even do a backfLip in GTA ?

darned times

zero_gamer4606d ago

Mario games usually sell like hotcakes and score high by major critics. They also rake in loads of profit to Nintendo. Unless Mario Kart 8 and other major Mario releases undersell Nintendo's expectations, Nintendo shouldn't "give it a rest."

ZBlacktt4606d ago

I think people who write stories like this should give the game a rest. You are tired of it. While millions upon millions of others are not. It's hard to rest the most successful Icon in video gaming history.

ape0074606d ago (Edited 4606d ago )

Damn straight

i like your style, no sugar coating, just in your face, that sure work for some people and save time too

AKR4606d ago (Edited 4606d ago )

Mario has a lot of mini-series. The Party, Tennis, Golf, Olympic Games, mainly. That's what makes it seem like there are an over saturation.

But to be honest, Nintendo is doing the same thing Ubi does with Assassin's Creed and that Activision does with CoD - keep the games rolling because they make money.

They're a game company. What do you expect them to do? If they didn't make money and get good ratings from all the different Mario-somethings - do you think they'd bother doing it?

Either way; the real, mainstream Mario titles come once every now-&-then. Put it this way; there have been only 5 3D Marios in the last 10 years and 6 in all. Mario Kart, which is arguably the next mainstream category of the Mario franchise, comes once a system. The "New Super Mario Bros." series; there has only been 4 entries across 4 platforms. The "Paper Mario" series, has only had 4 entries across 4 systems as well.

Not so much main-Marios, are there?

ZBlacktt4606d ago

Business side: Every company in the world not only needs to make money. But looks for ways to make money.

Fans support: To support a series is also the responsibility of those same companies. If you are not a diehard fan and just a regular consumer of the product in general. It may look like companies are "milking" popular lines. But demand = supply and that's what drives develops to create more of what their fans want.

So many get it and it all makes prefect sense. :D

for we are many4606d ago

I think the gaming "media" should give Nintendo a rest.

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The rejection is non-final (and even when such rejections are labeled as “final”, the process is far from over, given that there can be, at minimum, an appeal to the Federal Circuit).

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Relientk7766d ago (Edited 66d ago )

Good, as they should! A game mechanic like that shouldn't be locked behind a patent, and Nintendo didn't invent it either.

PRIMORDUS65d ago (Edited 65d ago )

Nintendo wants to keep wasting money on bullshit lawsuits, real smart in this economy. They should put that money aside for other game projects. On the other hand, I don't care if they waste it all either, and they are screwed in the future maybe that will teach them a lesson.

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Nintendo Suing U.S. Government Over Tariffs

Nintendo filed a lawsuit in the United States Court of International Trade.

Nintendo of America is suing the United States government over the sweeping tariffs President Donald Trump put in place last year, according to a complaint filed Friday in the U.S. Court of International Trade and obtained by Aftermath.

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Deathdeliverer91d ago

Well dayum lol. Old agent orange pissing off every industry and nation.

0hMyGandhi90d ago

The fact that you have ANY disagrees will forever baffle me. And to the (apparent) MAGA contingent that exists on this website, enjoy your 8-9 dollar gas.

AuraAbjure89d ago (Edited 89d ago )

Yes, they had better be pissed after Trump told them the way they rip off the USA is over.

EveryPlatformGamer91d ago

LOL I read this on gaff, will they refund the money back to the gamers? highly unlikely. Didn't they just raise prices and pass it onto the gamers? Only Nintendo would send out the Ninjas to the US government.

-Foxtrot90d ago

That’s what I was thinking, imagine them winning hypothetically, getting a s**t load of money back which they would have lost if they hadn’t raised their prices and it’s business as normal.

It would just mean people paid more for no reason since they got the money back anyway.

Outside_ofthe_Box90d ago (Edited 90d ago )

A lot of companies partially passed the cost to consumers instead of all of it. They would still have to at least pay that back to gamers, but we know that won't happen. What's also sad is that prices won't come back down after the initial hike caused by tariffs.

People didn't understand the full repercussions of tariffs. That alone should have cost him the presidency if people knew it was a permanent price hike for consumers

Inverno90d ago

The people should sue these companies for having to over pay cause of these tariffs.

Eonjay90d ago

Naw they should sue the government for forcing the tax to begin with. No one reasonably expects these companies to absorb the taxes. Many smaller companies tried and were shut down or faced to increase prices to try to maintain their business. The tariffs effect everyone.

Inverno89d ago

I meant it mostly as a joke cause we all know the costs of these tariffs were passed onto the consumer. But it's seems no matter how vocal we are here in the states our "representatives" don't seem to care enough to represent us. And things are about to get worse.

Killer2020UK89d ago

The companies were doing what the law required then to do, the tariffs however were illegally implemented. Usually it's criminals we punish, you seem to have different ideas 🤷‍♂️

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