Can we accept a world without Nintendo IPs?

[Techno Squidgy]

Being that the only Nintendo IP I've ever played is Pokemon, I probably could. I've never gotten attracted to any Sonic, Mario, Zelda games. They never caught my interest when trying to play them.

Sonic is Sega's mascot. I'm so surprised nobody else called you out on this

OT: I don't really have much to do with Ninty anymore. The last game I bought for my Wii was probably SSBB. The last games I bought for a handheld were a copy of Fire Red and Leaf Green that I saw in a shop going cheap. It'll probably take something special to get me to buy a WiiU.

 

[Maximum Bert]

Well I dont honestly play a lot of Nintendo games anymore but gaming would be a much worse place without them.

The IPs they create are some of the most solid and substantial in all of gaming I mean how old is Mario 30 ish? and hes still going some may complain he is getting stale but to be fair they got so much right with Super Mario Bros it was hard to change I mean its still extremely playable today.

Mario is all over the place though and he has diversified but things like Zelda are getting stale at least to me but I still love some of the games I mean Twilight Princess and Windwaker were fantastic others really like(d) Ocarina or Link to the past its always all the same but only on the blueprint everything else changes marrying familiarity with innovation in a way few other companies ever manage.

Sometimes its nice to just step away from competitive games or gritty realism or games with long winded stories and enjoy a game thats all about the gameplay and Nintendo have always delivered on that front.

No other company handles their IPs as well as Nintendo but we would be much better off if they did. I could accept a world without them but I wouldnt like it as much.

Oh and one last thing Nintendos properties are universal and can be enjoyed by all some dont like the cartoony visuals or whatever but so many of their games stand the test of time they dont chase trends they create long lasting games and for that I applaud them also they are still the masters of the platformer and I love me a good platformer occasionally, no more Mario platformers at all would make the gaming world a sadder place.

 

[Best of the 3]

Being that the only Nintendo IP I've ever played is Pokemon, I probably could. I've never gotten attracted to any Sonic, Mario, Zelda games. They never caught my interest when trying to play them.

Sonic is Sega's mascot. I'm so surprised nobody else called you out on this

OT: I don't really have much to do with Ninty anymore. The last game I bought for my Wii was probably SSBB. The last games I bought for a handheld were a copy of Fire Red and Leaf Green that I saw in a shop going cheap. It'll probably take something special to get me to buy a WiiU.

So it is, I kind of lump them together by mistake every time.

 

[The Lunatic]

If all the Nintendo games were to disappear over night.

I'd be completely unaffected.

 

[Skeleon]

While I enjoy a lot of the Nintendo IPs - specifically on handhelds - I'm primarily a PC-gamer, so... yeah, I wouldn't mind, as long as games that fill a similar niche gameplaywise exist. I'm certainly not attached to, say, the empty vessel that is Link. If these games had more of a continuity, more of an overarching plot, I might care more about the characters, but they often feel extremely unconnected/feel like remakes or reboots. Using Link again as an example, from my "understanding" of the "timeline", there's a ton of different Links anyway: Descendants, ancestors, shadows, twins etc.; this isn't "Link, the hero". This is "tons of different people with similar looks, dress-sense and the same name". I don't really care, especially not when I have at the back of my mind "the other Link I know from that earlier game is dead and gone, has been for centuries, this is somebody else".

 

[Ghostface2206]

I don't fully understand why the op is asking this, but I for one care about Nintendo, and I would be quite sad to see them go. Also, there's not a whole lot of love for Nintendo on this forum anyway, there are much better places to ask deep philosophical questions concerning them.

Either way, if they can make it feel fresh and new like Super Mario Galaxy did, then I would happily buy the next 3D Mario platformer that they're obviously going to make on Wii U. And Anouma also said that the next Zelda game on Wii U will "re-think the conventions of Zelda", I really hope that they deliver on that promise.

I don't know if any of you lot heard, but Miyamoto is working on a new IP, which will be shown off at E3. So it better not be a disappointment like the last time we were promised a Miyamoto game and got Wii Music...ugh...

 

[Arina Love]

To me yes, because i don't care for Nintendo IPs, i wasn't playing Mario or Zelda when i was growing up so these characters and Nintendo in general means nothing to me.

 

[kasperbbs]

I couldn't care less. Their games simply don't appeal to me and they keep remaking them.

 

[Sir Christopher McFarlane]

I don't want to accept it.
I hope they continue releasing games for their estabilished franchises. They could distribute them alittle better though. Some of their IPs go for several years without a new game.

 

[Zakarath]

Seeing as I've never actually played a Nintendo game other than Metroid Fusion or Oracle of Seasons... (apart from some Smash Bros. or w/e at friends' houses) sure.

 

[McMarbles]

Imagine if Nintendo didn't feel compelled to give us a new Mario/Metroid/Zelda/whatever game. Imagine if the game Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker had just been Wind Waker. Instead of Link and Zelda and Ganon and Hyrule, it had been something like Kyle and Jynx and Robespierre and Azure. Same gameplay, same art style, same(ish) story, just none of the "expected" Legend of Zelda trappings. I think that would have been just as good a game. Better, even, because it would've had all that fun stuff and yet been new as well.

Why? If it's the same game, just with different names... why would it be better?

And... if, presumably, Nintendo is the one making these new games... we wouldn't have a "world without Nintendo IPs", would we? So your point is moot.