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curl-6 on 14 December 2014
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Samus Aran said:
curl-6 said:
ExplodingBlock said:

I think they are going to reveal Super Mario Galaxy 3 at E3 2015, and I am totally hyped for it!

They have already teased it to us enough

Galaxy 3 on the 3D World/Captain Toad engine would be orgasmic, but I have a feeling the next 3D Mario won't be on Wii U.

So you're basically saying that Nintendo EAD Tokyo and 1-UP Studio are making a 3D Mario game for the 3DS? Because a new Super Mario game is already announced to be in the works. And I doubt they're creating another 2D Mario when Mario Maker is about to release. 

A studio this big (+ 1-UP Studio) working on just a 3DS game for the rest of the generation? Over 125 people working on just a 3DS game? 

From 2011-2013 Nintendo EAD Tokyo software development group #2 has nearly doubled in size. When Super Mario Land was released there were around 50 developers active at the studio. When Super Mario 3D World released there were around 100 developers active at the studio. Miyamoto confirmed in 2013 that he was working to increase the size of the staff. So the team could even be bigger now for all we know. 

Super Mario Galaxy was made with 60 people while Super Mario Galaxy 2 only had 40 people working on it.

This studio is big enough to work on a Wii U and 3DS project at the same time.  

To compare this with other studios:

Retro Studios has around 100 people working for them as of July 2014. They made Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze while developing most of the retro stages in Mario Kart 7. And from the looks of it, Nintendo EAD Tokyo software development group #2 is vastly more efficient than Retro Studios. 

More likely it'll be for their next gen Fusion platform.

Wii was the only Nintendo console to get two 3D Marios, I think Wii U will return to the N64/GCN pattern of getting just the one.