I know I sound like a broken record, but I really, really want a large-scale follow-up to Bowser’s Fury, which would be more open-ended and seamless than anything else in the series. As a proof of concept, Bowser’s Fury is brilliant. I get giddy thinking about what Nintendo could accomplish if it pushed that formula to its full potential.

After that, though, I hope Nintendo keeps playing around with different play styles and templates. Over the past 30 years, the company has demonstrated it can make 3D Super Mario amazing in many different ways.

Odyssey had those linear rooms, bring those back with a more sandbox style too.
I want Odyssey 2 or at least a follow-up that's like Odyssey.

Both and I expect they will.

For the next Big Mario Platformer I can imagine they'll have the same philosophy as with Mario Kart World. One big open place you go to places where something big is going on with many little things sprinkled in between. Warp Pipes for fast travel obviously.

Want to see them expand the fully open world concept from Bowser's Fury into a full game. Give a solid testing out of if that is better than the 64-style levels.

That said, Mario 3D World was sooooo good I'd love for there to be a sequel to that game some day too.

Yeah, keep doing both and anything in between. I like more linear experiences like 3D World and the Galaxy games, but I also enjoyed Odyssey and 64 despite not liking them as much.

I think it's a matter of linear games making me more inclined to completion. Once I reached Odyssey's credits I wanted to keep playing. I got a few more moons and explored a bit. But after seeing how many moons the game had left (like 1000?), many of which were "look behind this rock" I was like "yeah, I had my fun, but this is as far as I'm willing to go". In contrast, I completed 3D World (beat every level with every character) and both Galaxy games (242 stars).

I'm not a fan of sandbox games, but I'm really not a fan of an almost unlimited supply of stars/moon/sunshines/banana's as is the case in Odyssey and DK Bananza.

Mario 64 open world and sand box!? Imho, it's not.

Anyway, Galaxy is the best Mario. Make it linear, open world  and sandbox is overrated.

I much prefer what Mario 64 has, but I did not at all like what we saw in Bowser's Fury... unfortunately that seems to be what most people are expecting moving forward, so I'm pretty low on hope for the next 3D Mario.

I want both, give me two 3D Marios per console generation.