Do you think Nintendo's recent releases are lacking something … like new characters?
"Super Smash Bros. Brawl" director Masahiro Sakurai seems to. At the end of today's post on his game's official Dojo site he had this to say about the past twelve years of Nintendo-developed games:
It’s an incredible number of characters and a group of really well-known series. And to think that they all had their beginnings in Japan...wow!
When they’re all lined up like this, it becomes obvious that there is roughly 6-year blank before and after Pikmin. While there have been big series since then like "Animal Crossing," "Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day," and "Wii Sports" it does seem that coming up with a completely new character-driven series has gotten more difficult recently.
Is he right? Have the gaps that surround "Pikmin" upset any gamers out there? It doesn't appear to have effected Nintendo's business too much, at least as of late.
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