(I am speechless on why nobody has thought of this) What's YOUR favorite Nintendo franchise? Mine would be a tie of Mario and Kirby or Pokemon.

Kirby, Zelda, Pokemon..... GAH THERE'S TOO MANY!!!!!!!

My top favorite franchises are listed in the following tierscale. (I consider spin-off franchises from the Mario games to be Mario games.) I do not consider Super Smash Bros. to be a true franchise since it's a fighting game featuring Nintendo characters as well as third-party characters.

1. Metroid
2. Pokemon
3. The Legend of Zelda
4. Fire Emblem
5. Mario
6. EarthBound/Mother
7. Kirby
8. Golden Sun
9. F-ZERO
10. Animal Crossing

...and various smaller franchises, but I don't play those as much/at all in some cases.

*sneaks a peek at Lite's picture*

1. Pikmin
2. Pokemon
3. The Legend of Zelda
4. Mario
5. Super Smash Bros.
6. Animal Crossing

Suuure I play Brawl competitively, but I've enjoyed myself more with other franchises. Also nothing against Mario, but the three above it have just provided more fun for me.

1. Mario. :l
2. Star Fox
3. Super Smash Bros.
4. Pokémon

1. Mario
2. Pokémon
3. The Legend of Zelda
4. Metroid
5. Super Smash Bros.

1. Mario
2. Pokemon
3. Animal Crossing
4. EarthBound
5. Donkey Kong
6. Star Fox
7. Kirby
8. Wario
9. Legend of Zelda
10. F-Zero

As with Lite I'm not counting Smash Brothers since it is a combination of all the franchises.

Pokemon
Mario
Kirby

Ungh, I was gonna put my top # for every one of the franchises aside from the ones i've never played, but I'd rather be lazy and just list my tops of the top.


1) Mario
2) The Legend Of Zelda
3) Pokémon
4) Earthbound
5) Super Smash Bros.
6) Metroid
7) Kirby
8) Animal Crossing

1. Pokemon
2. Mario
3. Super Smash Bros.

1. Pokemon
2. Mario
3. Kirby

I have something against Mario ever since seeing Zero Punctuation's review of SMG2....
Back on topic!

1. Pokemon
2. Starfox
*Sneaks peek at Lite's pic*
3. Legend of Zelda
4. Custom Robo (great game if you haven't played it)
5. Metroid

Metroid is on there because of Prime 3, that was a fantastic game.

(1 Mario

(2 Kirby.

(3 Pokemon

(4 The Legend of Zelda

(5 Starfox

There is no way that list of franchises is complete. Where's PilotWings, or Nintendogs? I'm sure there are more missing, too. Anyway, do sub-series count?

1) Pokémon
2) Mario and Luigi
3) Super Smash Bros
4) Paper Mario
5) The Legend of Zelda
6) Mario (Tie for Kart and the main series)
7) Kirby

Even though I gave places, they're all VERY close, it was really hard to choose which one went where.

1.Mario
2.Donkey Knog
3.Pokemon
4.Kirby
5.Fire Emblem