Nintendo explains why core gameplay can't change in 2D Mario games

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BasilZero said:
The only thing they need to do now is make a FPS mario game! They can do it...I am sure of it, look at Link's Crossbow training!

All you need to do is give mario a fire flower and BAM there we got our Mario FPS xD

FPS for Mario would be awful. It would have to be TPS. A Mario game where you can't actually SEE Mario, except maybe in reflections?

Although, personally, I'd rather see a Mario RTS (or even turn-based) over a Mario shooter of either persuasion. In fact, a Mario game not unlike Warcraft would be really amazing - you can play as either the Mushroom Kingdom or Bowser's Kingdom (or possibly a few others, like Wario and his underlings) - each side has "heros" as well as regular units. So, Mario is a "hero", and then you have various Toads, etc, as units. In a sense, you're actually playing as Peach, and controlling the units.