Nintendo: We brengen net zoveel Mario-games uit als dat fans willen

Volgens Charlie Scibetta van Nintendo of America brengt het bedrijf het juiste aantal Mario-games uit, gebaseerd op de wens van alle fans. Toch waakt Nintendo wel voor de nodige innovatie in nieuwe games volgens Scibetta. Als een nieuwe Mario-game genoeg nieuwe dingen te bieden heeft is het een goede keuze geweest. Hij vertelde:

The key to that is as long as there’s innovation is occurring within the gameplay, as long as there’s new features, then marrying the characters and the IPs that people love is the right call from our standpoint. You could call all the games that we’re making here new IP in the sense that they’re new gameplay experiences. They just happen to also have the IP that people associate with.

If you look at something like Super Mario 3D World, the gameplay on that one that I find really cool is those transparent warp points. Usually you used to go into one and pop out the other, and that was the end of the gameplay experience. Now, there’s a whole dynamic there where you can navigate in there, try to avoid enemies, try to get a better advantage. You could theoretically make a whole new game with those kind of gameplay dynamics. If we didn’t put Mario on it, then it would just seem like a new IP. Because there’s those new gameplay dynamics like that, we think there’s the innovation there that will keep people interested and keep the Mario brand fresh.

Zit er nog genoeg vernieuwing in de Mario-games? Of ben je wel klaar met de besnorde loodgieter? Eind dit jaar verschijnt Super Mario 3D World voor de Wii U.