Just noticed your comments in the other threads, and just wanted to put this out there: Are you sure that the people complaining about Angry Birds now wouldn't have complained back when Mario was getting that treatment?

It is a bit more than one (but not that much) but like I said, Nintendo has been around for over a century, and 40 years making video games; on top of that their biggest franchises were created in the early days of the game industry, when Nintendo had an 80% share of the home video-game market.

You mean that before 2007, Japanese feature phones were technologically superior to BlackBerrys, Windows CE and Symbian powered smartphones? Maybe they had nicer screens, but in terms of functionality, they weren't even close.

Japanese studios make pretty good CGI animated films but I've never seen any good CG in a Japanese live-action movie.

japan has had technologically superior smart phones before the iphone was released

Maybe I was already too old at the time because I'm afraid I can't say that I miss them.

Nintendo is a 125 years old company and has been making video games for 40 years. One could easily argue that they've also been "milking" a few couple of big franchises over that time. Rovio has been around for about 4 years with Angry Birds (released in December 2009). How many other recently founded game companies…

Arguably one of the weakest entries in the franchise. But Galaxy was awesome and it seems like everyone agrees that Super Mario 3D World is one of the best Mario game ever.

Come on, don't be so hard on Nintendo. Mario is still a fun game.

You maybe too young to remember it, but Mario was a lot more ubiquitous than Angry Birds will ever be.

Nintendo has been milking Mario for nearly 30 years now. How much more's left in the tank?

How an Angry Birds comics can be worse than this:

Does Mario even has a story other than jumping on stuff and saving the princess?

This may just be a sign of me being/getting older,

Colors? In my day, we had no color, and we liked it.

Value and price are not the same thing. It's business 101, really: you should price your product based on how much it is worth to your customers (=how much they'll pay). If you price your product higher than what your customers are willing to pay (=perceived value), you need to either 1) rethink your product's pricing…

sale lowers the perception of a good's true value

The 64 version is a wee closer:

Most of them would not, just as most people didn't buy the MacBook Pro with Retina at launch and instead waited a year or two once the technology became more affordable.

What he's calling the "culture of sales" has been going on for at least a hundred years, better known as "consumption society."