[Thespis721]

With the lack of Nintendo covers, I put it to this.

Nintendo makes GOOD GAMES with characters that, for one reason or another, seem to chime with us well. Probably because when we were kids, we loved playing Mario so the nostaglia continues into our older age and is helped by the game still being frakking good! And then it helps that while we're getting our nostaglia nuts off, the kids younger then us are getting their minds indoctrinated by Mario so they can grow up to be us. And so the cycle continues.

Who doesn't like Mario? The people who started playing games when the PS2 came out.

But even still, I think the industry is fine. Smaller companies will die out if they don't find that mega hit. Bigger companies will fire people when they are trying to increase profits. But that's kind of like any industry, really.