How can Nintendo give this series more support?

[BooDestroyer]

If WarioWare is going to be noticed more often, then it's probably going to need to have some kind of push, if Nintendo can even be bothered.


Even something like outside support like future Mario Kart 8 DLC, characters and a few tracks. (Was that arcade track of Diamond City dumbed down or Mario-fied? How faithful was it? Plus, bring back the Wario Bike used in MK Wii. And maybe new tracks based on Gamer, Pirates, and other parts of Game & Wario) If Smash still fails at pushing this series, then how else can it be done?

In light of the Pikmin Short Movies they've made lately, maybe a WarioWare short animated series where every character has segments of their own, Animaniacs style. If whatever team makes these games can be motivated enough to do such a thing.

What can be done by Nintendo to get more people to notice this series again anyway? Do they want it to exist anymore or not?

 

[Dumribble]

It boils down to political preference. If Nintendo wants people to like WarioWare, they will. Make a big deal out of it, like they did with the "Year of Luigi", the Koopalings being in MK8, or megaevolutions as a whole, shove WarioWare into their faces. They will buy into it.

 

[607]

It boils down to political preference. If Nintendo wants people to like WarioWare, they will. Make a big deal out of it, like they did with the "Year of Luigi", the Koopalings being in MK8, or megaevolutions as a whole, shove WarioWare into their faces. They will buy into it.

Exactly.

A question to everyone to you both though: Why would someone want more people to get to know WarioWare?

 

[Dumribble]

Because its fun and crazy style will make it sell? At least I wish it did.

 

[Glowsquid]

Why would someone want more people to get to know WarioWare?

because more people buying it means we're more guaranteed to get New Games

 

[CM30]

Practically speaking... brace yourselves...

Sell the franchise.

Nintendo have shown time and time again they have no interest in marketing it, so the best way to make it successful would be to sell the Wario series off to someone who would be interested. There are two ways this could save the series:

1. It goes to a company or group who specifically want to make Wario games

Because hey, unlike Nintendo, these people have no fallback option. They have no Mario, Pokemon, Zelda, Smash Bros or other big name franchises to prop them up if the Wario games don't sell. Basically, they'd have to get the series more support or go broke/shut down.

In other words, the first way to get the series more support would be for Nintendo to sell it to a small indie dev who only wants to make Wario games.

2. The series get open sourced/released to the community

Okay, Nintendo wouldn't technically have to sell it to do this. But basically, they'd take every Wario Land and WarioWare game ever made, and stick the whole thing on Github under the GPL license. Basically, they'd take Wario the WordPress or PhpBB route, with a community of contributors all adding in resources and ideas and making whatever the hell they want out of the franchise.

This would save the series by letting people promote it for free, develop it for free and release it for free. Given how people love promoting their hobbies, this would work a lot better than a marketing campaign ever would. And hey, it'd mean WE would be the people making the official Wario games!

So yeah, the only way I think Nintendo can give it more support (at least now) would be to either sell it off to someone else or open source it. Call it a day, cut ties with Nintendo proper and let someone with actual passion take over.

 

[Glowsquid]

well over the past few months I've entertained the thought it'd maybe be better for Ko Takeuchi to get the rights to his WarioWare creations, if only because he'd actually do something with them (even if it's just drawings on his twitter account).

I don't really trust the average outsourcing house to do a good Wario Land, though, and especially not WarioWare. Anyone else picturing WarioWare as done by the makers of Frobisher Says? Argh!