Gonna have to disagree with you on that one.  3D World is probably my least favorite of the 3D Mario games.  It was an incredibly well made game, and I thoroughly enjoyed it, but it just wasn't nearly as ambitious as the others.  I can see though how someone would enjoy it the best, if they played a lot of multiplayer.

I liked the green stars too.  Not the best thing ever, but a really good post game bonus.  Much better than having to play Galaxy 1 over as Luigi.

I can see where'd you say that, but ambition counts very little for me. It might help in my case that I haven't played every 2D Mario beforehand, but I'll take polish and focus over ambition any day. I feel the need to point out that I greatly enjoyed each and every 3D Mario. 3D World just felt the most focused on simple fun to me. Not to disrespect Sunshine or the Galaxy games in any way; 3D World didn't have any sort of crutch to lean on, no water jetpack or gravity physics, so it had to have extremely solid level design to impress. Most of Sunshine and Galaxy's levels are extremely well designed (more Galaxy than Sunshine), but 3D World just felt more fun to me.

2D Mario hasnt run its course, NSMB has.

Like I said, a game with a new artstyle, new main enemy, new worlds, new playable characters, new powerups, etc. can make a 2D Mario very desirable.

Besides NSMB2 sold over 10 million & NSMBU sold over 5 million so its kinda ridiculous to say there is 2D Mario fatigue.

for the sake of argument, I do think so since there should be a Galaxy 3

- Mario Maker 2/NSMB
- Galaxy 3
- 3D World 2

Sunshine actually sort of does this when you press the Y button  to aim FLUDD better. It's not intense as Resident Evil 4+ though

To answer that we'd need to know if Nintendo even sees it as a three seperate series. I'll bet they consider 3D Land n World to be just as much 3D Mario as Galaxy n Sunshine.

Mario is the last Nintendo franchise I care about.  I got a WiiU 2 Boxing Days ago in anticipation of the Mario games - but they underwhelmed me.  The first 2 platformers were ok (sorry, I'm not treating the Luigi treatment as it's own game) and Mario Kart 8 was ok, but nothing fantastic.  I didn't bother with Super Smash or Mario Maker as I don't care for the genres.

I'm not sure I'm getting an NX.  I might be tired of Mario to buy a console for.  Although, if they go 3rd party for my Xbox One - I'd probably be all over a Mario platformer.

I sure hope not. I liked it better when it was just one type of Mario and it released just once a gen, or twice. Too much of anything is a bad thing and Mario is no exception.

if only they manage to implement a good multiplayer in a true 3D mario like galaxy or 64, id agree.

3d world shines on mltiplayer, imo. that why it is still needed.

I'm hoping to see all three kinds or Mario! I do absolutely NOT wanna see two games from each kind of Mario game, that's too much. i want one 2D Mario (where they abandon the New-series and shake things up), a 3D exploration Mario (like Mario 64) and a 3D Land/World Mario. That would be awesome!