[SaintMadeOfPlaster]

Yeah, I don't understand the "milked" argument myself. Considering that Nintendo has only released (not counting remakes/rereleases): 10 console Marios in 27 years 4 handheld Marios in that same span 7 Mario Karts (9 if you count the arcade releases) in 21 years 9 console Mario Parties in 14 years 3 Smashes in 13 years 9 console Zeldas in 25 years 7 handheld Zeldas in that same span 9 Metroids in 25 years 12 mainline Kirby games in 20 years Not to mention franchises that haven't gotten an entry since the Gamecube, or franchises that have been seemingly forgotten or obscured. Yeah, they use the same characters, but this is over the course of 20-30 years. Most Nintendo franchises after the NES only got 1 or 2 games on a platform per generation. Meanwhile, a good chunk of the big time AAA games of today get a game a year. Compare something like COD, which got 8 games in 8 years, or Assassin's Creed which is nearing it's 5th console game since 2007.

Truth.

I think the problem is that Nintendo has now gone a whole generation without creating a new "Nintendo IP." Sure, we got the Wii _____ line of games, but that hardly counts as a new character for the company.

When you go so long without creating something new, it's easy to accuse them of milking franchises.

[fernoca]

Truth. I think the problem is that Nintendo has now gone a whole generation without creating a new "Nintendo IP." Sure, we got the Wii _____ line of games, but that hardly counts as a new character for the company. When you go so long without creating something new, it's easy to accuse them of milking franchises.

But they did. Well, "they". :p
Disaster, Xenoblade, Rhythm Heaven and a few more.

Others from second/third-parties like Captain Rainbow, Flingsmash, a new entry for Another Code and the reboot of sorts of the Excite-games, and stuff with third-parties like The Last Story, Pandora's Tower, Zangeki...

Granted, most stayed in Japan...and that's excluding the DS/3DS and digital games (Rolling Western and Pushmo more recently) and none got sequels (Rhythm did recently on Wii) but well, Kid Icarus' last game was in 1991 and we just got a new game a few days ago (2012); so who knows what will happen with some of those.

[Lime]

EDIT: I apologize. Wrong thread.