Super Mario Galaxy 3 — Will it happen?

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Tober said:

The Wii did not have a second control stick for Camera control.

So Nintendo had to come up with an idea for a 3D platformer where the player did not need to move the Camera themselves and the Auto-Camera would suffice most of the time.

The Galaxy idea was a brilliant solution.

Eventhough now having a second control stick, there is still a case to be made for a game not needing it, because an auto-/fixed camera can be more entry level friendly.

I could see a new game using concepts and idea's from the Galaxy series, but not necessarily be a Galaxy game.

The Wii-Remote had a d-pad which was used for camera controls. Not just in Galaxy, but also in a bunch of other games like Monster Hunter Tri, for example.

The d-pad isn't different to what the C-buttons were on the Nintendo 64 controller. There's no such thing as a solution Nintendo had to come up with due to a controller. They wanted to make a 3D platformer revolving around spheres and that's what they did with Galaxy.