In the year 1996, the popular video game companies, Nintendo and Square Enix, published a collaborative video game title for the SNES, which was Nintendo's current console on the market that year. The game was called, "Super Mario RPG : Legend of the Seven Stars," and received a lot of praise for it's unique story and gameplay by fans and critics alike. With the positive reception of the game the fans and consumers were obviously clamoring for a sequel in one way or another. The problem with this demand is that all the original characters from the title, settings, plot, and ideas from the game are actually owned by Square Enix : The original developer of Super Mario RPG. This would mean that Nintendo would not be able to legally produce a sequel to Super Mario RPG without the assistance of Square Enix. 

While this news certainly troubled fans of the series at the time, (myself included,) there was still a very bright future for the characters involved with the series and the game they were in. Square still had ownership of all the unique ideas for the game, which would still of course mean they had the right to produce spin-offs with those characters and places, with only minor licensing issues at hand. And Nintendo still owned all of their IP's, (Intellectual Properties : Original Ideas,) from the game as well. And while Nintendo did eventually go to make newer Mario themed RPG games, it wasn't exactly in the same vain as the original, not what made the original unique anyway. The original Super Mario RPG was unique because of it's story, and characters, and how those characters would interact - not just because it was an RPG with Mario. Which is why it's such a huge let-down that Square has not done anything with their original Super Mario RPG IP's.

For the lack of interest in the series and properties, I propose the idea that Square Enix should sell the original IP's to Nintendo. That way Nintendo can make more entertaining games and expand upon this beloved series, implement those IP's in mainline Mario titles, (which would certainly make those titles more interesting,) or just give it some attention in a remake.