@ Corridas: I think you could've made your point succinctly, or at all, if you'd chosen better examples to illustrate whatever you intended to say. Both Mario and Zelda have gone well past cash cow franchise zombies. I've certainly never asked for them by name; the only time I've played them was visiting friends or family who happened to have them, and even then they weren't my first choice. They're both relics, and they only reason they still compete is because they release early in the life cycle of new consoles, when there isn't much to compete with.