Topic: Nintendo Weighing Multiple 3DS Zelda Options

[Chozo Ghost]

Why must they pursue only one option? Why not do all of them?

[UncleBob]

Because they have finite staff members and resources.  Magically as Nintendo may be, they are not a genie.

I do have to say, I'm rather amused by some of the same folks on here who complain about Nintendo reusing the same themes/characters/concepts also wanting more Zelda - specifically, Majora's Mask and LttP remakes.

[Chozo Ghost]

Why does it amuse you that core gamers want more of a core franchise?

[UncleBob]

So everyone's happy with New Super Mario Bros. 2 and New Super Mario Bros. U?

[Chozo Ghost]

So everyone's happy with New Super Mario Bros. 2 and New Super Mario Bros. U?

Its better than the casual games it could have been.

And with that said, I think a lot of the griping you see over Nintendo milking too many sequels out of a franchise mainly revolves around the Mario franchise. How many Mario games have we seen the last 5 years or so? Every year we get multiple Mario games. I think that's what 90% of the griping is about. Other Nintendo franchises like Metroid, Zelda, Star Fox, etc. aren't getting these endless yearly repetitive sequels the way Mario does. That's why talk about a new Zelda still holds a lot of excitement, whereas talk of another Mario game isn't quite as exciting because there's just so many of them.

[UncleBob]

*actual* Mario games, still, aren't that common.  Sure, we get Mario-skinned games like Mario Tennis and Mario Party, but an actual Mario platformer (2D or 3D) isn't something we tend to get more than once a year.

Hell, it took nearly 20 years to get an original, new Mario 2D Platformer...  And now, because we're getting a few more (mind you, a new game for new systems... not even a same-system "upgrade"), well... Mario's played out.

[TJ Spyke]

13 years, not 20 (1992 to 2005). NSMBU looks like a really great game, I plan to get it (not sure on NSMB2 yet).