New Super Mario Bros. U (Wii U)

Well thank goodness we're getting them out of the way so soon.

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Originally Posted by Yoshi

I love that Nintendo is now Activision. We get two NSMB games in three months when no one was asking for one.

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Would you just shut up already.

I don't see how anyone can deny that Mario platformers are practically an annual franchise now. At the very least, the release schedule is on par with something like Assassin's Creed.

I still think NSMB U looks really good, it looks pretty fun and the design seems promising. I understand where some of the disappointment or indifference comes from, as this isn't a landmark system-selling launch title that grabs you and really wows you.

While this isn't the perfect launch title, it will most likely be a very effective one. Nintendo needs to put a 2D Mario on every one of their platforms going forward because of its universal appeal and casual user entry, just re-selling roms of their older games isn't enough (and most of those are probably a bit too challenging). I'm still enjoying - very much so in fact - NSMB 2 right now.

Come Fall 2013, near the end of the Wii U's first year, I expect that we'll see highly-anticipated releases of the new 3D Mario game and Retro Studios' new IP, probably coinciding with the PS4 and Durango launches. Those games, among potential others, will probably do a better job of actually selling gamers on the Wii U hardware than NSMB U.

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Originally Posted by epmode

I don't see how anyone can deny that Mario platformers are practically an annual franchise now. At the very least, the release schedule is on par with something like Assassin's Creed.

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At the very least, on par. Who could deny such a thing?

2006 - New Super Mario Bros
2007 - Super Mario Galaxy
2009 - New Super Mario Bros Wii
2010 - Super Mario Galaxy 2
2011 - Super Mario 3D Land
2012 - New Super Mario Bros 2
2012 - New Super Mario Bros U

11/2007 - Assassin's Creed
02/2008 - Assassin's Creed: Altair's Chronicles (DS + Mobile)
11/2009 - Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines (PSP)
11/2009 - Assassin's Creed II
11/2009 - Assassin's Creed II: Discovery (DS + Mobile)
11/2010 - Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
11/2011 - Assassin's Creed: Revelations
10/2012 - Assassin's Creed III
10/2012 - Assassin's Creed III: Liberation (Vita)

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Originally Posted by epmode

Breaking: Galaxy and 3D Land are not platformers.

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Grouping the 3D platformers with the 2D games isn't the same thing as the Assassin's Creed series in full. But I'll include them in the above for you.

Breaking: Galaxy and 3D Land are not platformers.

Yeah, they're nothing like Contra!

I think including them is fine if you were also counting the DS games for AC.

Fuck it, put that abysmal and shameful Mario All-Stars ROM on a Wii disc on there.

Nintendo's on a 1 Mario game per year cycle, basically. The games are good (even though the New series is aesthetically awful) but a new Mario game is no longer a system defining event.

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Originally Posted by Fe 26

I'm kind of tired of mascot whoring.

One thing I really miss about sega was that they pumped out lots of good IPs.

I wish we had early 90s sega back :C

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Everyone did in the 80's and 90's, like all the way through the Playstation era. Mega Man was a joke because Capcom wouldn't stop making them. OH, HOW THE TIMES HAVE CHANGED.