@slypher9: Yes the second part is marketing. Cause really neither Mario nor Sonic have changed at all.

Sonic 4 was the original Sonic in HD, and Fire and Ice and Sonic Boom are just modern 3D Sonic games.

New Super Mario again is just the original Mario in HD, and Mario World are just 3D Mario games.

At the end of the day both franchises have not changed in over a decade, but because Nintendo spends more marketing dollars on Mario, its more popular, that's it.

Mario is just as predictable and bland as Sonic, same exact worlds, Ice World, Water World, Fire Mountain, fight Bowsers sons, fight Bowser on Ship, finish game.

Both games are extremely stale with exception of maybe Mario Galaxy which felt fresh.

And Yes reviews do make a huge affect on game sales. When was the last time you saw a bad review on a Mario and Zelda game, despite the games being exactly the same for over a decade. They always get good reviews. How many times can you play Ice World, Water World, Fire Mountain, apparently forever.

@Dark_Mits: How is a game that is impossible to die good?

And yes you are right it is almost impossible to die in modern Mario games. You can pretty much play them with one hand tied behind your back.

@slypher9: Biased reviews has something to do with it. Its taboo to give a Mario game a bad review, while its almost sacrilegious to give a Sonic game a good review.

Every Mario game no matter how identical they are or how boring they are get rave reviews. And it just adds up over the years.

Single biggest factor in one franchises success and the others failure is just biased media coverage. People have a certain feeling towards Mario that makes it impossible for the game to ever be considered bad. Even though Mario games have remained the same for decades now.

@DAOWAce: You can kiss innovation goodbye then, cause nobody wants to do that. LOL

$$$ drives the human race. Without it we'd all just be sitting around watching reruns of Erika Eleniak on Bay Watch.

43 is Wayy too OLD to start a new Bond role. So is Damian Lewis whose like 45 years old.

I don't know what people are smoking when they start these rumors. Nobody is gonna hire a brand new Bond whose already 43, what are they gonna do 1 Bond movie and retire.

The next Bond will be a young relatively unknown actor who is British and in their early 30s or late 20s.

Anyone over 40 is not gonna be Bond. And no, a woman will not be Bond, either.

Bond is usually a 4 film committment, which means whoever takes over needs to be able to last for another 15-20 years.

@DAOWAce: So how do you make money as an inventor? Work at McDonalds?

@kryotech: I'm not debating with you, just having a conversation.

I don't think there is a perfect example of a working hybrid model in place yet.

First humanity needs to understand all its own flaws and accept those flaws as who we are, before we can get to a perfect system of government.

Accepting our own flaws and knowingly being able to live with the fact that we are hierarchal creatures, who are greedy self centered and short sighted is the first step, and trust me its a big step to accept this of ourselves.

Just my two cents.

@Ayato_Kamina_1: Yet they were paid.

@Ayato_Kamina_1: Or just better logic. But in all honesty does anyone ever win a debate anywhere?

@kryotech: No single ism works, its always a complex hybrid of various isms that make a great government.

All countries who have stuck with one ism has failed. This is due to basic human nature.

Human beings do not want to be equal, despite what we preach to our children. Hence all notions of pure communism and pure socialism don't work. Yet on the flip side human beings are infinitely greedy, in other words a person would rather watch everyone starve than to stop having his own feast. Which is why all pure notions of Capitalism do not work, since a minority would rather burden the majority for singular gain, I.E the US Wall Street bailout.

Hence due to basic human nature all isms in there purist forms cannot be sustained, this includes Democracy. When given the choice to choose ones own leader, human nature dictates that we will always choose the leader most likely to give us what we want, regardless of its long term effect on he society.

With all that said, a working government is usually a complex intewoven web of various political ideals that sometimes contradict eachother.

China has had thousands of years to figure it out and they still haven't gotten it right, but they are inching closer and most developed countries are starting to see the benefit of mixed political systems.

When we aspire to live by a single ism we aspire to be the best most ideal of human beings, sadly humanity is flawed and thus cannot live in accordance to the very ideals that ourself would like to uphold. We are complex creatures, self centered, greedy, and generally unaltruistic, hence we need a system to reflect all of our failings.