"I am not sure why Nintendo did not make a 2d Mario for consoles for almost twenty years, but I suspect one reason is that Nintendo thought 3d Mario and 2d Mario as the same exact series. They were Mario games. Consumers saw it differently. 3d Mario, while good, doesn’t have that simple arcade action as 2d Mario did. When Wii launched, Iwata referred to Super Mario Galaxy as the Mario game. If you liked 2d Mario as many people do, well, you felt lost since you wondered whether a 2d Mario would ever return. If it weren’t for the NSMB DS massive (18 million +) sales, I don’t think we’d have heard Cammie or anyone from Nintendo talk about 2d Mario and 3d Mario as different games."
I think you people are misunderstanding him. He actually always states Galaxy is a very good game but for the masses no and that's the truth. In Japan whether you want to admit it or not its a failure. Don't get me wrong, its my most-played game on the Wii and my favourite 3d mario but i always find myself tempted to download SMB3 or SMW on the VC. Those games just sort of let you imagine how the worlds would be in whatever way you saw Mario. It was almost magical. That said, I didn't like NSMB on DS. It just felt underwhelming but if nintendo can correct those flaws I believe I as well as millions of people will have a new favourite game of this generation.
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