What if Mario is discontinued?

It won't, so no point in thinking about it.
 
Mario would only be discontinued in the case Nintendo itself is out of business. It's not even worth speculating what would happen because it really won't.

Not to mention it's kinda not fair to even speculate this when there are popular minor franchises compared to Mario, Pokemon, or Zelda that are in long hiatuses that may as well have been discontinued as their only games they're included in since their previous one is really just Smash Bros.
 
Lol, while I doubt it would happen, it would have meant that Nintendo has completely run itself out of business. They ran out of ideas and was unable to adapt to the future.

However, I believe that they would simply become like Sega where they just make their own games for other systems (at worse).
 
Claus said:
However, I believe that they would simply become like Sega where they just make their own games for other systems (at worse).
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Even then it's not like Sega ever considered dropping Sonic. Keeping Sonic around just to port him as a 3rd Party from now on was probably what helped save Sega from total bankruptcy. (Starting with porting many of the old classic games as well as Sonic Adventure 2 on the Gamecube)
 
Then Nintendo would be braindead because they just discontinued not just their most successful franchise, but the most successful game franchise in the world.

That would be like if Disney suddenly said they werent going to use Mickey Mouse or Winnie the Pooh anymore.
 
Magikrazy said:
Then Nintendo would be braindead because they just discontinued not just their most successful franchise, but the most successful game franchise in the world.

That would be like if Disney suddenly said they werent going to use Mickey Mouse or Winnie the Pooh anymore.
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Well the Winnie the Pooh part happened