After a fruitful discussion yesterday about whether Nintendo has under-served their original core audience on recent consoles, Zelda Informer takes the issue one step further: are Nintendo and its developers becoming more concerned with satisfying their own ambitions than with being the best they can be?

It cannot be a coincidence that it was not long after the release of the Super Nintendo that Nintendo stopped making new side-scrolling Mario titles, even though, like the NES, they still had plenty of life left in them. I get the feeling that now that Nintendo had made enough money off of Mario and the NES, they wanted to do something new that they wanted to do rather than continuing to support the audience they already had.

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