How could Mario be still relevant?

Most of his older competitors like PacMan have become irrelevant years ago. But still this unattractive plumber can retain its relevancy. How?

His games are fun, and they've evolved - change to 3d etc.
also >unattractive
wrong

Maybe because it's fun?

Great developers who know what they're doing and love what they're doing. Now if only 3d sonic were the same.

>Unattractive

Mario is hella cute.

Mario has always been accessible to everyone ever since his first game. Catchy music, incredible gateway to 3D platforming and people will always find a good memory from the moustached-man no matter what.

Change up the formula, continue to make the best games in the industry. Most of Nintendo's original competitors are dead.

Because unlike all the other studios mentioned nintendo is actually really good at adapting and creating new trends in videogames.

The only other classic character whose games were good at that was Megaman but everyone at capcom suddenly had a stroke or something and turned into blithering idiots who ruined almost every single series they controlled in just a few years after decades of success.

That Mario Kart started it

>unattractive
excuse me what

I want him to bounce on me

heehee!

welp that killed it

because their devs playtest a lot, and there's lot of feedback integration from them

Do they still use Miyamoto for the camera?

Also on a completely unrelated note, I'm very happy with Odyssey for keeping the "mario actually turns around when moving" momentum mechanic despite most people complaining about it in other games it's in.

Off-topic*
Imagine that if there wasnt a giant 3d platformer push in the past sonic would be one of the most beloved series today.
(that or sega would still find a way to fuck it up)*

Anyway nintendo does like trying out new things(and doing it well most of the time).Plus they have a bunch of loyal fanboys making them money.

His games are great. Other companies they wish they not only had such recognizable mascots but also quality games to go with it.

because the mainline 3D platforming games they deem worthy enough to slap Mario's likeness on are consistently fantastic.

How?
By making good games, that's how

Mario still got a perfect track record between the 2d games and the 3d games

>Pac-Man has had very little new good games from the Arcade game until now
>Sonic has had very little new good games from the Genesis era until now
>Mario consistently has good game after good game
Gee I wonder

Good games, plus he has a fundamentally charming design/personality/world/deepestlore.

His first console game basically saved video games from the Atari video game crash. His first 3D adventure put down the framework for the 3D collect-a-thon genre. All his games afterward have basically been quality. That's why he's still relevant.
Pac-Man was an icon of the 80s arcade era, but has kinda just floundered about years with a couple good games and a couple meh ones.

Yeah pretty much this

>PacMan have become irrelevant years ago.
Pacman is still one of the most recognized video game characters.

He's like the opposite of Sonic. Sonic has survived for years solely based on his design, while Mario has survived for years because of his gameplay.

holy shit pac man and that dot collecting bullshit and people call mario a "collectathon"

Luigi is cuter

Will there ever be a Sonic 06 equivalent in this franchise? It's kind of scary to think that Nintendo might drop the ball in the future somehow.

Just because he looks like a pizza, not because of its games.

Even their worst game sunshine is still a pretty great game

Nintendo would have to fall a great, great distance from where they are now to produce a Mario platformer as fundamentally broken as Sonic 06. It would have to be a point where they'd lost all their talent, all their dev time, and even the basic motivation to maintain Mario's longstanding record of solid-to-fantastic platformers. No-one can predict the future, but I find it very difficult to imagine.

Sounds like the 3rd party nintendo so many idiots want. Sega's downfall clearly wasn't enough of a deterrent.

Kept the same basic gameplay and refined it over the years while still adding new and innovative mechanics to make the games seem fresh

It's plausible but Nintendo has shown that they are amazing when they actually try (at least with Mario specifically). New Super Mario Bros. 2 and Wii U is probably the worst mainline Mario games and at most their just incredibly mediocre and was largely that way because Nintendo didn't even bother with them beyond just throwing some shit in the line up whilst they were working on the real game they wanted to market.

The tragedy of Sonic is even when the devs try their hardest their games still fail on the account they are completely out of touch of game design and their own fans.

I honestly think New Super Mario Bros. U is one of the best Mario games.
It looks uninteresting, but the level design is top notch

Games aren't good, Nintendo just knows how to hit all the right nostalgia buttons.

I mean, shit, they're selling a 3D collectathon platformer in 2017, that genre died almost two decades ago. But with the right nostalgia packaged in Nintendo is managing to sell it.

You're an idiot.

>They're selling a 3D collectathon platformer in 2017, that genre died almost two decades ago. But with the right nostalgia packaged in Nintendo is managing to sell it.
Didn't A Hat in Time release with major critic and audience success?

You think you're smart but all you're doing is missing out on great games

This, Nintendo's games aren't real fun. They're fake fun. They're nu-fun. You aren't really having fun.

This, fun is a buzzword after all.

Please, stop having fun. Please.

because nintendo shill him so hard, he became the main icon.

>sunshine
>worst
nah my man that's super rehash galaxy 2

Luigi is too cute. Mario gives that action hero vibe, as does Wario, so they both make great protags, but Luigi is the kinda guy who'd rather not be doing what he does and go be a housewife.

yeah the movie

>macaulay culkin looking motherfucker is "cute"

The movie was actually pretty entertaining. It just wasn't Mario at all.

>unattractive
delet

Good games.

because nintendo fanboys are the most delusional people in existence, case in point:

I just said it wasn't good as a Mario movie, you fucking retard. As a movie itself, it was entertaining enough. Generic dystopian future movie, sure, but it was pretty decent.

Fun Fact:

Radical Entertainment (known for Mario is Missing! and Mario's Time Machine) have recently worked on Crash Bandicoot and Prototype game franchises.

very diverse game mechanics each iteration

except for the shit handheld games.

fun is a buzzword used to distract the goyim from all the issues and redpills that face them

If I had to point to one thing in particular? Mario 64. That game had a massive impact on the gaming landscape and made Mario a household name. I still remember the feeling of wonder that game instilled in me all these years later.

It's almost as if it's more about the gameplay than the character.