10 Things The Nintendo NX Must Do To Be Successful

3. Introduce Some New IP

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Look Nintendo, we all love Mario, Link, Samus and the rest of your merry band of plumbers, gorillas and rotund pink blobs, but isn't it about time for some new blood to enter the scene?

Don't get me wrong, if a direct follow-up to the Metroid Prime series was announced tomorrow, you just know it would be an instant classic at the very least, and no doubt a system seller.

But all of these characters, because their image goes hand-in-hand with perfection, only appear in their own full games once in a blue moon, due to how long they take to create and perfect. Just look at the current situation with The Legend Of Zelda Wii U...

What we need is a stopgap, something that exudes the same type of Nintendo magic as the big names, but is smaller in scope and introduces a few new ideas.

Splatoon was a step in the right direction, but we need much more.

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