Could Nintendo Survive without mario

Lets say Nintendo suddenly stopped making mario games. Could the system survive (in terms of quality not sales)

How about xbox. If Bungiee suddenly stopped making Halo games for 360 would it beging to die in terms of quality.

What about Playstation. If Sony were to suddenly stop making Gow or uncharted games would PlayStation begin to start dieng in quality)

Yes, they have pokemon

If they dropped the Mario Franchise there will be a drop in sales but they still have plenty of IPs to choose from to sell.

Examples?

Pokemon, Zelda, Metroid, F-Zero, Kirby, etc....

In terms of quality, yes, they definitely could have. They have so many IPs that they could focus on to make the next Mario (in terms of quality). Top 3 video game franchises are Nintendo owned (Mario, Pokemon, Wii"___"), although sales don't really indicate quality, but it says something atleast :P

Microsoft and PS3 probably could have done something else too.

Nintendo losing Mario would make a lasting impact, but recoverable. MS would be put in a coma and probably would not wake up, unless there's a miracle. I think making a company lose two big while others only lose one is unfair, but it wouldn't kill Sony.

They would lose alot of sales, but they could still survive as they have other IP's aswell.

Bungie is going to stop making Halo games for the 360 so I guess we'll see.

Don't know about Nintendo.

Sony wouldn't be affected that much.

isn't Pokemon in the 100-mil category.

yeah...easily. Ninty has tons of good IPs to work with otherwise.

MS has Gears, but putting that game past a triology seems like it would be a daft move.

Wii has tons of quality non-mario games.OreoMilkshake

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MS would be better off than Nintendo since they haven't based their entire platform around 1 character. Plus, they get plenty of multiplat titles. The Wii would only have 1 AAA exclusive this gen if it weren't for Mario

Nintendo. No more Mario would be a huge loss. Could you imagine this gen without SMG and SMG2 two of the best games this gen? Nintendo could survive but losing Mario would take a huge dip in quality and would make the gaps in between Nintendo games even longer.

Microsoft. If it was original Xbox then I would say this would be the biggest lost. Considering the only reason 360 exists is because of Halo but since the main series is over and the rest (Bungie's last game and 343's games) will be spin-offs i would say it wouldn't be much of a loss.

Sony is probably the only one that wouldn't suffer a big loss. As Playstation never really had some killer app that made the system, it was more about variety hence while Sony doesn't have a mascot.

[QUOTE="OreoMilkshake"]Wii has tons of quality non-mario games.Respawn-d

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Lets say Nintendo suddenly stopped making mario games. Could the system survive (in terms of quality not sales)

How about xbox. If Bungiee suddenly stopped making Halo games for 360 would it beging to die in terms of quality.

What about Playstation. If Sony were to suddenly stop making Gow or uncharted games would PlayStation begin to start dieng in quality)

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None of these companies would suffer in terms of quality. Miyamoto, David Jaffe and the creator(s)of Halo (I don't know their names) will still be geniuses without those franchises. Also, another thing to remeber is that these aren't the only franchises they have. IMO MSoft will be hit the hardest because IMHO I think that Halo is MSoft's only DECENT franchises. Everything else is dead to me. But Ninty and Sony could recover easily mainly because they have more hit franchises due to them being in the Industry much longer.

[QUOTE="OreoMilkshake"]Wii has tons of quality non-mario games.Respawn-d

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Ninendo could easily mange without mario qualety wise. I know they don't make many new ips these days, but that more to do with the fact that they love money more than they don't have the talent

Hmm, Zelda, Pokemon, and Metroid. Yep.

[QUOTE="OreoMilkshake"]Wii has tons of quality non-mario games.Respawn-d

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Why don't you look yourself?

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[QUOTE="OreoMilkshake"]Wii has tons of quality non-mario games.Willy105

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Actually, Warhawk (PS3) is actually a remake of the original Warhawk for PS1. It should be more like "knowing the PS3 only has Gran Turismo".

[QUOTE="OreoMilkshake"]Wii has tons of quality non-mario games.Respawn-d

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You can't honestly say that the Wii has no good non-Mario games. We're not in 2007 anymore. (And even then we had Metroid Prime 3)

Lets say Nintendo suddenly stopped making mario games. Could the system survive (in terms of quality not sales)

How about xbox. If Bungiee suddenly stopped making Halo games for 360 would it beging to die in terms of quality.

What about Playstation. If Sony were to suddenly stop making Gow or uncharted games would PlayStation begin to start dieng in quality)

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ya, Metroid + Zelda

Wii Sports and Wii Fit?

Yes. While Mario is one of their key franchises,Nintendo still has plenty of other keytitles like Zelda andMetroid to rely on, oh and also those Pokemon games seem to sell out all over the place!

Yes but Mario would be a big loss since he is their flagship title.

Nope. Their best gams are Mario games.

Both would hurt alot, but Nintendo and Microsoft could probably manage without Mario/Halo.

Sony would be fine.

It would definately be a huge blow for Nintendo but they would survive and most probably they would create new game franchises/Characters which would be successful..

I think yes. But i think they wouldn't be in the spot they are today.

The 360 could be fine without halo. Its a big game but the 360 main sell point is xbl and multi-plats and the acarde games. Halo is huge but i think they can get past it.

Nintendo losing Mario would make a lasting impact, but recoverable. MS would be put in a coma and probably would not wake up, unless there's a miracle. I think making a company lose two big while others only lose one is unfair, but it wouldn't kill Sony.

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Well, Uncharted and God of War are nowhere near as big as Mario or Halo so Sony had to give up two. :P

What do You mean with 'mario games'?
Do You mean they would stop making platformers, partygames, sportsgames, puzzlegames etc?
Or simply not mario themed?

Either way they could survive. Their quality is not dependant on mario as a character or his genres. Though they excell at mario games, i am sure their mentality, passion, budget and decision making would make any kind of game succesful.

The Wii titles actually sell better than the Mario titles mostly, so yes, they would survive.

TC's post shows one of the main reason that I prefer my ps3 over my 360 and wii. Sony does have huge blockbusters, but it's software lineup doesn't rely on 2 or 2 games. They are constantly realizing new IP's each gen and a lot of them are amazing games. When you think of Nintendo you think of Mario and Zelda. When you think of Microsoft you think of Halo. Who exactly is the face of Sony?

This isn't a fanboy rant so please don't confuse it as such. I own all systems and understand that they all offer great experiences. I'm just stating why my preference goes with the PS3 so please nobody get butt hurt over it.

In terms of quality, not sales? I'd think Nintendo would become a better company if they lost Mario, and not force feeding him into IP that could be better with original characters. That's one thing I think Nintendo seems to lack as of late, and that is good original characters. I've been playing some Majora's Mask recently and can't even imagine what happened to all the creativity of their teams between then and now (The Skull Kid seems at first to be a really shallow character that is just the typical Nintendo antagonist, but the further I get into the game, the more I feel sorry for him).

Microsoft is pretty versatile when it comes to creative new IP, so I don't think they'd have any problems... except it would probably be coming from a licensed third-party (like Epic) and not a first party.

Sony is probably the best suited out of the three to give up something and replace it with something new. All their first party developers are amazingly creative and innovative when it comes to new ideas and design. Nintendo might be able to make a really good Mario platformer... but they've been doing that for 30 years. Sony knows how to make something new.

nintendo could stop making mario titles and revive some of their other titles

like fzero, starfox, kid icarus, kirby...

In sales and in quality it would hurt but they'd manage unless he went to Sony.

Nintendo: Yes, Because they have others (Ie Zelda, Samus, Donkey Kong, ect)

Microsoft: No, Because in reality all that they have is Halo to them exclusivly, AND EVEN THEN it ends up going to PC.

Sony: Yes, Because Sony has a million different 1st party IPs, if one goes away they always have new ones and backup. xD