One area that I really see lacking with Nintendo right now is sports games. This is a genre that seems to have several games do well every year (mainly MLB The Show NBA 2K, and of course Madden and FIFA) but Nintendo doesn't seem to want to get into it yet, even with their Mario sports games. MLB Power Pros (and 2008) was a great game for the Wii, but we haven't seen that series for years. While Konami seems to have shied away from Nintendo, Nintendo could still make that same type of game, only better, and adapt that same idea (easy to learn, somewhat cartoony, but plenty of depth) to other sports. Nintendo innovation + a genre that sells games without innovation (seriously...) + the Wii U gamepad (imagine how many sports would have great multiplayer once Wii U starts allowing for 2 local gamepads... so many sports games make it hard to keep secrets from the other team, gamepad would make that easy) = some hit games. Why won't Nintendo get on it?
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