If that's true, then I am sick, just sick of the new Nintendo. Don't they realize that if they make a game good for us, it will also be enjoyable for casuals?

The only place where I can give them the benefit of the doubt is if in their eyes a less "gamer" game will be more attractive to casuals and non-gamers. They level-down the tone of the game to less serious and more bland so as to be more generic and attract a bigger market.

The idea makes me sick... and frustrated.

Mario games aren't about graphics. It could be built on the SNES engines and it would still have more appeal and charm than 90% of products available today.

I much prefer 3D action Mario games like Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario 3D Land. I'm a bit bored of side scrolling Mario games and don't see why they sell more than 3D Mario's.

@Carl

No matter the platform you make it on, as long as you make it to the best of the platform, you are ok in my book.

That's not what's happening here, and you can be sure that SMB, Mario 3, SMW and all the 3D Marios after that used all the hardware resources they needed to make a polished game.

Most new Mario games other than the first Mario Galaxy are void of any charm and are purely created to push units much like most other games today.

I'd play SMW and SMB3 over them any day of the week.

I love the art style of the NSMB games. It really fits the way the games play. They're sober, relatively simplistic 2D games, yet still brilliantly fun. Thus, graphics that are sober and simplistic, but still look relatively nice, are quite fitting.

For other games, like Donkey Kong Country Returns, simplistic graphic would be completely off. It's more of a whacko and crazy 2D platformer, so more whacky graphics with more explosions and stuff happening fits the game a lot better.

I am already not supporting them. I did not buy 3D Land and will not buy a Wii U. I am buying this because I would rather see infinite lackluster 2D Mario games than one more 3D Land. (Of course they should keep making 3D Mario but it should not get the flagship marketing budget).

I don't know what using 3D Land's budget on a 2D game would do to sales, and Nintendo doesn't know either, because they haven't tried the last 3 times. I suggest trying - a good enough Mario game will presumably sell 40m like SMB1, and Nintendo needs to experiment with all possibilities to get it there. They've tried 3D enough to know it won't.

There will be things that'll shock you when we see the game in motion. Two things that can be graphical features I noticed on the screenshots are the background in the pyramid level (looks 3Dish) and the sparks on the yellow turtles pic!

And if not, the imminent return of frog mario will win all hearts back and some more.

Spurge, you're an ace at misconstruing arguments. I'll just leave it at that for now.

Nikkom, I eat post-its for breakfast.