User blog comment:Exotoro/So Much Smash News/@comment-25395573-20140815145325/@comment-1414871-20140816002010

agh not this again

to be honest, while they are spin-offs, they could def be considered their own series. all of them have more games than some of the other franchises represented in smash.

I could maybe see the argument better if say Wario, DK, and Yoshi didn't get new games recently or only had like three but that hasn't ever been the case, with them all getting games on their own pretty early on in their conception.

There is def an argument that they are separate series that span off Mario.