Out With The Old IPs, In With The New

PS3Informer: More than two decades ago, Nintendo became synonymous with video games, due in no small part to a little Italian plumber originally named Jumpman. Jumpman morphed into Mario and a billion dollar franchise was born.

Over the years, Nintendo has leveraged Mario’s cachet with gamers and put him in hundreds of games. As a video game franchise Mario set the bar for every other video game console, and set it high. Mario was followed by Link, Kirby and Donkey Kong. In an attempt to try to garner the same following for their respective consoles, Sega, Sony and Microsoft followed suit with Sonic, Spyro, Master Chief and a slew of others, with varying degrees of success. I’m sure there are those of us who still remember a certain large-headed caveman named Bonk.