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Guitarguy on 18 October 2014
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Lucas-Rio said:
Guitarguy said:
I'm not certain if Nintendo view Mario 3d world as a true 3D Mario title like Super Mario 64, Sunshine and Galaxy. If they do, chances are that we won't see another true 3D Mario title on the Wii U given how badly it is selling. The Wii go two full blown 3D Mario games(Galaxy I & II) whilst the N64 and the Gamecube only received one each(Super Mario 64 and Sunshine, respectively). In my opinion this was due to the low sales of the N64 and Gamecube, it simply was not worth the man-power to make another full fledged 3D Mario. This was not the case with the Wii which was selling insanely at the time and had a very large user base. Probably smarter to dedicate those developers to finishing up the Wii U incarnation of Zelda...


The Mario and Zelda games aren't developped by the same EAD team. Also, Mario Galaxy was in developpment well before the release of the Wii, so before the success of this console.

My guess is that Nintendo saw the great sales of 3D Land and thought wrongly that it was what the players wanted. So it ended into the quick cash-in that 3D world was. But at the end it sold very poorly for a 3D mario games and Wii U sales suffered of this.

A true 3D Mario would sell better, for sure. But I don't think we will see one.


Oh I meant the second Mario Galaxy which came out in 2010. My opinion is that without success of the Wii, we would have only received the first Mario Galaxy and no sequel. I remember with the N64, there were always rumors swirling about a Super Mario 64 2 but this never happened, I think the low console sales of the N64 make Nintendo focus on smaller projects for the N64(Mario party etc) whilst reserving a full-fledged 3D Mario for the next console. Just speculation though. I did play Maro 3D World and came out a bit unfulfilled really, it felt more like a quick co-operative multiplayer party/2.5D title rather than a true 3D mario platformer...