Sony announced in its annual financial report that they are working on new sales initiatives for the Vita. It appears that they have been asking Nintendo to allow them to publish one Mario game on the Vita to help spur sales.

According to a source within Nintendo, president of Sony Computer Entertainment Andrew House has been meeting with Nintendo employees in an effort to secure a Mario title for the PlayStation Vita. The source, who wishes to remain anonymous, said that this has been going on for the past four months.

“I don’t know why he keeps coming here because we have clearly said no,” said the source, “But he keeps showing up unannounced with gifts and begs us to let them have one Mario title for the Vita. I feel kind of bad because these gifts are really nice. Well, everything except the free Vita. There really are no compelling games for that thing.”

“Lately, he’s been upping the offers Sony will make if we give them a Mario game,” continued the source, “They even offered to port three PlayStation 4 games of our choice to the Wii U at no cost to us. He said that they don’t care which Mario game we give them. They’d even take New Super Mario Bros. 3 if they had to.”

We spoke with Sony for a comment regarding this story and a spokesperson gave us this statement:

We spoke with Sony for a comment regarding this story and a spokesperson gave us this statement:

Sony and Nintendo have a long history together. Despite being competitors in the video game industry, many top executives are long-time acquaintances with each other. Friends do things for one another and while there is no truth to these rumors, Sony believes that Nintendo is a good company who would do the right thing if asked.

Reggie Fils-Aime, Nintendo of America president, also commented on the story saying, “I haven’t heard of these unscheduled visits from Sony, but I will allow them to publish Steel Diver for those ports.”

Source:http://www.p4rgaming.com/sony-asks-nintendo-for-one-mario-game-to-help-sell-the-vita/



Btw: This is not real.

You copy pasted the whole thing.

was i suppose to change it up? ^

A type of Mario rip off ala PASBR would spur Vita sales imo.they should do it

Terrible idea. If this were to happen Vita sales could sink to Wii U levels.

^Genius

Yes b/c Vita sales are so s hot right now!!! (sarcasm)

This joke is such a Nintendo fan's wet dream. Mario is not at all as big of a system seller as he used to be. Many of Sony's internal games could be more effective for pushing units. If they really wanted to shop around for a huge system saver, they'd go to Rockstar or the like.

Heck I'll bet someone my sig for a month that Tearaway is better reviewed than 2D Mario on 3DS.

They're above Wii U, hence it's a funny joke.

Edited for clarity.

Waiting to see how many people think this is real.

great gifts:

64gb memory stick for ps vita....