Nintendo's newest old games

[A Black Falcon]

Those are some interesting new announcements, I just hope that the games are good. But it's great to hear that there'll be a 3DS M&DK: March of the Minis game, the DS ones are great. The 3DS LttP 2 and Yoshi's Island titles... we'll see. I hope they're good. The DS Yoshi's Island DS game wasn't that great, hopefully this one is better.

Otherwise though, I find it annoying how that article focuses so much on how the games are "all sequels"... as if the fact that several of them all star Mario makes those very different kinds of games all the same or something? And the part near the end of the article where the author basically says that don't bother going to Nintendo for actual new ideas is a blatant lie, of course.

No matter how good these familiar titles are, though, it's highly unlikely that any of them are going to show us anything truly new and unique. While there may be cosmetic differences and tiny gameplay tweaks to the established formulas, you basically know what you're getting when you go in to one of these countless Nintendo franchise titles. Usually you're getting something good, but rarely are you getting something really surprising or innovative. That's probably enough to sustain the 3DS and Wii U on its own, but it's not really enough to get us truly excited about the future of games on Nintendo hardware.

Considering how often Nintendo mixes things up, makes new games with completely different gameplay styles that they help to sell by putting familiar characters on it, etc., it would be hard for this paragraph to be any less true than it is.

If the response is "but those are sequels"... well, how do you know how all of these games will play? Nintendo sequels have often changed things. But just because of the name, the author is assuming that they'll all be as similar as the New Super Mario Bros. games are, or something. It's not always like that, not at all!