Adult games take skill and complexity and mix you up a nice brew, mario games (aka t3h kiddyz) just offer a lil bit o' skill thus it's warm milk & cookies for children. Mario sports games appeal to the casual gamers and old fuddies who were never hardcore and thus yearn for when games didn't require losts of knowhow to get the most out of them.
So i.e. Mario sports games pander to the lil kaids and the senile old farts who never could catch on when gaming GREW UP!
I'm a gamer who recognized that the gaming industry matured and those not willing to grow along side with it are either going to have to cling on to companies like Nintendo, or bitch and moan about simplistic games because while easy to get into had so much "skill to master" when in reality those games where only hard because of hardware limitations aka no 3-d/lack of freedom.
I'd rather have games, especially sports games, that require me to think, learn, read and react instead of put unnecessary obstacles that serve no purpose than "we couldn't do it any other way/it makes the game challenging" i.e. artificial barriers.
Mario golf,tennis, and god forbid if there ever is a mario football and basketball, are just watered down versions of the sports games they are imitating with Mario characters thrown in for nostalgia and name recognition. Sure they 'll be fun for a while and will require some skill to master but ultimately they can't hold a candle to the real sports games they pathetically parrot.
*passes Sonic a clean diaper so he can change himself after laying that last turd*

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