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Slownenberg on 07 March 2022
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Valdney said:
Slownenberg said:

Ya gotta figure a 2D Mario is being worked on for the Switch, because it'd be absolutely insane for them to leave that on the table when it would surely sell 20+ million. It just better be a new style of game, and not the "New" style. A new art style, tighter controls, new ideas. NSMBUD is fun multiplayer but quite mediocre as a one player game. I mean based on its sales though even if they just did another "New" game it'd be a big seller, but a brand new 2D Mario series that is very high quality would be an absolute mega seller. If Nintendo is gonna keep the Switch going for several more years then launching a brand new 2D Mario series on it is the most obvious thing in the world.

I want to believe this so bad. But Nintendo's track record tells me otherwise. Very sad.

Well I mean 2D Mario's have become normal since the DS, so I gotta think it is much more likely than not. Especially since it seems likely they want to keep the Switch going for a few more years. The NSMBUD port has done well but nothing compared to what a brand new 2D Mario could do.

A new 2D Mario is the most obvious game for Nintendo to make at this point. If I had to guess I'd say it'd be perfect for holiday 2023.

At worst I think we'll just get another "New" 2D Mario, but hopefully Nintendo realizes that series is stale now and they need a fresh take. After all, the only time Mario has ever stayed similar between games was the Japanese SMB 2, and Galaxy 2, (well and I guess 3D World/Land but that seemed to be more complimentary games like "this is the handheld version" and "this is the console version") whereas the New series has consecutively been on DS, Wii, 3DS, Wii U (and ported to Switch) which means by Mario standards it has been absurdly overdone and 2D Mario is ripe for a fresh take. It's hard to imagine they wouldn't want to take advantage of Switch's massive userbase to get an easy 20-30 million seller with the next Mario game.