Japan Sales week 26, Jun 24 - 30 2019, Famitsu

[TruckOSaurus]

RolStoppable said:

TruckOSaurus said:

Yeah something needs to be done to shake up the formula because another title in the same vein won't probably do so well.

Not hard to come up with ideas to push sales to old heights or at least significantly above the 3DS and Wii U entries.

New artstyle, new music, new bosses, world themes being more than the same eight that were used across all four NSMB games (grass, desert, ice, water, jungle, mountain, sky, lava). Can take a look at 3D Mario, Wario Land and Yoshi games in order to more than double the amount of themes with absolute ease. The NSMB games more or less rearranged the order of world themes and bosses, so 2D Mario didn't move forward with the 3DS and Wii U installments.

Take the evolution from Donkey Kong Country Returns to Tropical Freeze and you've got yourself a great new 2D Mario game. Just a pity for Tropical Freeze to be put on the Wii U, a console that held back all of its games. The Switch version of it isn't going to reach 5m copies lifetime, but at least some vindication.

I would love a 2D Mario with an amount of work similar to what went into Tropical Freeze! It would be glorious!