I'm kind of sick of this obsession of having Mario in everything and that the games that don't have him sell badly or anyhow not as well as they deserve, even when you have masterpieces like Pikmin 3.
If something will kill Nintendo it's not their poor business decisions, but Mario. Mario is like Oedipus. And people are totally behind this obsession.
Here you have a potentially brilliant new IP, with a great idea behind it, with great looking characters, with a potential to attract some other people to Nintendo's world, in a genre not very used on Nintendo consoles, and then "but I want another Mario 3d game, why isn't this another Mario 3d game?" just to complain probably after that about how the new Mario 3d is nowhere near the quality of Mario Galaxy and how Nintendo will never achieve that level ever again and why are they keep doing these stupid Mario games that are not Galaxy.