Super Mario Bros. 35th Anniversary Direct

[Slownenberg]

This is exactly what I thought it'd be but without Galaxy 2 :( :( :( :(

Not sure why people are complaining about it being full price, obviously this was going to be a $60 collection no matter what was in it.

Also for anyone who was expecting remakes or significant remasters...come on, this is Nintendo, there was no reason to expect such a thing. If they were going to put significant work into any of these they would have sold at $60 each. At best I thought there might be a little work upgrading textures on M64 but even that I thought was unlikely, GC and Wii games look good enough that just making them HD is good enough. I was a little bit hoping for a Mario 64 remake sold separately and then the other 3 games to be sold in a HD collection, because I always felt unsure if Nintendo would give us 4 games in one package as they would deem that too good a deal for their customers. Sadly I was right, Nintendo refused to do the obvious thing and give us a full collection.

The omission of Galaxy 2 makes zero sense and definitely is gonna hurt sales of this since Galaxy 2 is the best of the bunch and I think most people would be much more interested in the Galaxy games than 64 and Sunshine. With Galaxy 2 this would have been exactly what I expected and so would have been a 100% buy for me. But now I'm a bit on the fence since the two Galaxy games were the two I most wanted to play through again. Though the ability to play the other 3 games again is probably enough for me to buy this so I think better chance than not that I will end up picking this up.

Also the limited time release wtf?! This game, even without Galaxy 2, could sell many millions. Why the hell are they going through the trouble of making it only to have it available in any format for 6 months?? That is just bizarre. Yet another dumb decision by Nintendo. It literally costs them nothing to keep the digital game up forever, so they are deliberately choosing to miss out on probably hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue at no cost or effort. Nintendo continues it's history of WTF decisions by not including Galaxy 2 and doing a 6 month release.


I guess we now know what that rumored "game with wheels coming this year" game was. Some people thought it'd be a new Mario Kart, and well they were right haah but not what anyone expected. The Mario Kart is a very cool concept, I have no interest in it but I'm sure there will be plenty of kids who are dying for it. The Mario 35 rip off of Tetris 99 is very cool. It said Mario 35 is only available till March as well...does that mean they are just gonna shut it down after March or you have to download it by March to be able to own it? Hopefully the latter. I'll definitely be downloading Mario 35, should be a fun free game, already love Tetris 99. Even if they just take it off the store after March, thats really dumb because another free game available with Switch Online would improve the value proposition of the service but instead they are stupidly doing a 6 month only release like the collection. And the omission of Galaxy 2 makes me worried that they are gonna do another 3D Mario game on Switch but instead of a new game they're just gonna remake Galaxy 2 (which would be cool but obviously everyone would rather have it in the collection and a new 3D Mario game in Switch's future). Could be wrong, but I don't see why they would leave out Galaxy 2 for no reason if they weren't planning on doing something else with it. Then again, Nintendo makes plenty of stupid decisions for no reason so maybe they just decided four games in one collection would be too good a deal to give their customers.

At least with the collection launching in less than two weeks we now know it isn't the big holiday title and they must have at least one big holiday title coming. At least makes me more excited for the Switch holiday lineup than assuming the collection was gonna be the only big thing this Fall. Could still be BotW2.

Last edited by Slownenberg - on 03 September 2020