Is this still Nintendo's "big three"?

Is this still Nintendo's "big three"?

Smash
Fire Emblem
Zelda

Not if Pokemon counts

No, not even close.
Take Metroid out and put Pokémon instead, that's Nintendo's "big three" right now.

>Metroid
What do you think?

How could I forget?

Switch Zelda with pokemans

Metroid has never been part of it, least of all now.

Fixed it.
Don't forget Cred Forums, Metroid is dead.

Metroid, no. That fell off the map.

Mario
Zelda
Kirby

Switch metroid with Pokémon even though Nintendo doesn't make the Pokémon games

Why is Metroid there? It has been irrelevant for a while now.

Kirby honestly slipped my mind, this.

Mario Zelda Pokemon.

It's been this way for like 20 years.

why would you even consider putting Metroid on that list? Nintendo treats Star Fox better than Metroid (and it probably sells better too)

I'm not OP, I'm Sorry for the misunderstanding

smash, mario kart & zelda are the most popular currently

There won't be another Smash game though. The NX will just receive a port of 4.

whats meteoroid?

Metroid has never been a "big three".

It's more irrelevant than Fire Emblem.

Fun fact: F-Zero was more popular than any Metroid game.

Metroid is a D-List Nintendo franchise.

metroid was never a part of the big three even during the snes days

nintendo dgaf about metroid these days

i know you just want people to make fun of other M and federation farce

everything important about kirby can be culled from GilvaSunner

they'll still be making mario when we're dying of renal failure

Metroid sucks

>Metroid
>Ever part of the "Big three"

Jesus i never really thought about it but spongebob was amazing. How are there so many perfect images and moments from 1 childrens cartoon

Not sure what you're going on about, but Kirby is REALLY popular in japan. In fact, the franchise has it's own cafe.

me·te·or·oid
ˈmēdēəˌroid/
nounAstronomy
noun: meteoroid; plural noun: meteoroids

a small body moving in the solar system that would become a meteor if it entered the earth's atmosphere.

mario, pokemon, animal crossing

Zelda hasn't been relevant since the 90s grandpa

A Tier
>Mario
>Pokemon
>Zelda

B Tier
>Animal Crossing
>Kirby
>Donkey Kong
>Smash
>Mario Kart

C Tier
>Fire Emblem
>Metroid
>Pikmin
>Wii/Mii (series)
>Yoshi
>Wario
>Xenoblade

D Tier
>The rest

ALMOST 12 FUCKING YEARS, WHERE IS IT NINTENDO!!

replace Xenoblade with Splatoon

Mario,Zelda and Pikmin for me.

Mario
Pokemon
Zelda

They are not Nintendo's best games though, Fire Emblem beats everything.

Shit forgot about Splatoon. We will defiantly get a sequel, so it will be B tier when that comes, Starfox will forever remain at C tier.

>Pikmin
>c tier

Fuck you I love pikmin.

It's never coming. Dead in the water.

F-Zero should be E Tier, it's deader than dead

>Metroidfags are this delusional
Holy shit

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If you mean in terms of quality, absolutely yes. If mean in terms of sales then you're a retarded for including Metroid there.

Nah, it's Mario, Zelda and Smash.

Metroid is dead and I'm still mad

>not mario, zelda, pokemon

>big 3

Replace Metroid with Smash.

If pokémon doesn't count, then Donkey Kong

FE is easily B tier now

Metroid was never one of their "Big Three."

It's Mario, Zelda, Pokemon, and has been since the late 90s. Before then, it was Mario, Zelda, Kirby (and it still is if you don't count Pokemon).

what starfox?i hear the N64 remake did great on 3DS well enough to where the game is actually kinda rare today

No one in this thread agreed with OP's claim.

The big 3 was a made up term by westerners to reflect on NES classics.
There was no big 3 to the Japanese and if there was it'd be Mario, Zelda, and Kirby (if we're counting second party games).
Nowadays a "big three" would be Mario, Zelda, Animal Crossing
Factoring in second party developers, it'd be Mario, Zelda, Pokemon
Factoring in Smash Bros would make it Mario, Smash Bros, Pokemon.

Metroid was never that big in Japan, Fire Emblem was more popular.

Wrong, it was Mario, DK, and Zelda. DK was so big during the SNES days. Zelda didn't become number 2 until OoT. Gen 5

Now the 4th main franchise, that always changes each gen.

Gen 3
None since it was Nintendo's start
Gen 4
>Mario, DK, Zelda, Kirby
Gen 5
>Mario, Pokemon, Zelda, DK
Gen 6
>Mario, Zelda, Pokemon, Metroid
Gen 7
>Mario, Zelda, Pokemon, Kirby
Gen 8
>Mario, Zelda, Pokemon, Animal Crossing

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these anons are correct

Counting Nintendo 1st Party only the big 3 are Mario Zelda Kirby.Not sure why you had metroid up there OP still angry about federation force?Just admit it metroid went the way of fzero its dead...

>now considered a major franchise as of a recent Nintendo financial report
>has like six fucking reps in Smash, three of which are basically the same character
>shitting out merchandise like it's fucking Pokemon
>one of the next mobile games from Nintendo alongside Mario and Animal Crossing
>had a third party developer collaboration with Atlus, for which they hired the biggest music producer in Japan for whatever reason
>Matthew Mercer listing out his roles at a convention, applause for Leon Kennedy or Kanji Tatsumi from Resident Evil and Persona, as well as his other stuff, but the second he mentions voicing Chrom the room goes apeshit with cheering

Nigga we made it.

The Mario, Link, Samus trinity was made up years ago by people who grew up with the NES/SNES.
Seriously, there's a good number of images and pictures that center around those three alone. They sort of see it like the Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman trinity but the one they see centering around Nintendo characters only existed in nostalgia and was never official to begin with.
The funny thing is that some things never change.

definitely not metroid any more, fire emblem fits better

pokemon is bigger than all three combined so putting it in that trinity is silly, it is its own thing

according to
prime and the original metroid kicked fire emblem's ass, along with f zero

after all of the fire emblem dick sucking in smash, fire emblem is B tier, IMO

metroid is fucking ded, its D tier at best

zelda mario and pokemon
metroid was never in the big 3

It never was, Metroid is far behind the other two. Add Pokemon instead.

No, it's
mario
zelda
donkey kong

it also has cards

>For years Metroid fags shit on him for "muh Ridley"
>Turns out he gives Metroid far more credit than the rest of Nintendo

Sakurai had a hard life...

Well it's had multiple TCGs, but it's all under the merchandise umbrella.

This Kirby got a cafe, games on every Nintendo platform for every gen since the GB and one of the few video game characters to get a decent animated adaptation.