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Top 5 Nintendo Franchises that Debuted in the Past Decade

January 04, 2010 in Top List comments 11

Nintendo is known for some of the best video game franchises in the history of the industry. This past decade saw the debut of many great new franchises from them.

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    Chekkaa Jan 5, 10
    Too bad some of them (*cough*Paper Mario*cough*) have already been ruined...

    We can only hope that the third Pikmin game doesn't suffer the same fate of severely altered gameplay.
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    Dark Arcanine Jan 5, 10
    Only one I've dabbled in is the Wii Sports group. I must admit, it's simple yet addictive. Had mine a year now, I know it's not that special, yet I still play it regularly.
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    Aussie Legend Jan 5, 10
    Metroid Prime and Paper Mario are the two single shining lights of Nintendo (for me) over the last 5-6 years. The two originals of those franchises are my two favourite Nintendo games ever made (well, along with Perfect Dark and FE: Blazing Sword).

    And their sequels were definately worthy of the originals (The Thousand Year Door a little more than Prime Echoes), some of the truest sequels I've seen.

    But sadly, both series kinda butchered themselves with their third installment, and sadly it was irri-parable stuff (MP3 didn't have changeable weapons, SPM pretty much had the worst characters from any game ever).

    Which is why I'm gonna leave both of those fantastic franchises to ride into the wilderness, I can't see them being any good anymore.

    Also, how the hell is Wii Sports a franchise? Its like saying the cartoons before a movie are a show -_-
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    Onvacation Jan 5, 10
    Didn't Metroid start in like the early 90's?
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      Xeros the Slayer Jan 5, 10
      Yeah, but Prime didn't begin until recently.
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        Fatal Error Jan 5, 10
        That's pretty much a cop-out.
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          Aussie Legend Jan 6, 10
          No, its the truth
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          SebKus Jan 6, 10
          I suppose it's similar to the Persona/Shin Megami Tensei situation. Persona has SMT in front of it, but most people consider it a separate franchise. It's more of an off-shoot that's managed to grow into considerable size. The same could be said of Metroid Prime.
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          Fatal Error Jan 6, 10
          Metroid Prime is 100% based on the Metroid series. All they did was turn it into 3 dimensions and go FPS style. It's like saying that Mario 64 is just an offshoot of Mario Bros and Mario World. =/
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          BANDITO ATTACK Jan 17, 10
          prime is way different than the normal franchise. it deserves it's own seperate classification from the original style of the game... the one that didn't suck.
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    BANDITO ATTACK Jan 17, 10
    pikmin is the best franchise nintendo has ever conceived. now if they'd just keep making it... :l

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