Yay three new IPs!!! I hope one is a sequel to *insert shitty Kirby spin off that people like despite it being shitty* or *shitty Square Enix game that Nintendo had nothing to do with*
I feel like I'm the only one who finds it funny that the thread says "3 new franchises" and everyone proceeds to bring up old franchises. New franchises means new franchises, not revivals of old ones.
The thing with "new franchises", especially with a company so based on franchises like Nintendo, is that the introduction of one usually means the death of another. So I could see 3 older franchises that have been losing steam get the axe here.
All people want is sequels but at the same time they'll bitch and moan about getting more sequels...its the Nintendo fanboy way, its why Nintendo do a lot of sequels.
I really want one by Retro Studios, I really think their next title would be something brand new. Nintendo would have a lot of faith in them right now and Retro really do deserve a chance to do something new. They've also been head hunting a lot of big names in Western development so I can easily see them doing something that would appeal to the West more than the Japanese market.
Monolith said last year that they were making a Wii U game, probably a new RPG. I really hope they have something new, they've become a very reliable developer that Nintendo would also trust.
Then there will be one from one of Nintendo's in house studios. Nintendo EAD have been on Pikmin 3 but they are a huge development team that work on several titles at a time. There's also Nd Cube (Mario Party 9, F-Zero), Brownie Brown (Funded by Nintendo but only have done Mother 3 for them), Intelligent Systems (Fire Emblem, Paper Mario, WarioWare, Advance Wars) & HAL Labs (Kirby, Smash Bros, Earthbound/Mother), NST (Waverace, 1080, Mario Vs DK) and Project Sora but count them out as they've just started on two Smash Bros games and they're not a large studio...shame really because after Kid Icarus they could really bring back F-Zero or StarFox and do a great job.
As for series to be axed and replaced by a new IP or even a revitalised series we've not seen for a long time:
Metroid could be gone for a little while, maybe it'll jump to handheld for the next few years. Other M was pretty bad in places, good in some but they really killed the excellent work Retro did on Prime.
F-Zero I don't see coming back for a while, which would be a huge shame because that could really work well nowadays what with people wanting a racer that isn't too easy.
Earthbound/Mother is dead, creators say they won't make a new one they consider the story to be over. Maybe we'll get a remake of the games but I really don't see another.
Mario Party 9...this is just wishful thinking
I see one last StarFox game. This game will pretty much make or break the series, I think Nintendo has been very unfair on the series by thinking that because games like Adventures (which I still like), Command, & Assault didn't sell too well that people don't want them...well Nintendo those aren't the kind of games fans want of the series, make a game that IS and ISN'T a prettied up version of a N64 game, don't farm it off to Namco and make it really good then you might see some sales.
I do see Nintendo looking back to franchises that have gone and resurrecting them. They had commercial & critical success with Kid Icarus which to me is pretty much a new IP, hell I'd so fucking love to see a new Startropics game! Those two NES games were so much better than the two Zelda ones and the stories were a little different and less clichéd...but yeah that isn't a "new IP".
