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Nintendo is Making 3D Mario Remasters For His 35th Anniversary (venturebeat.com) 27

Posted by msmash from the shape-of-things-to-come dept.
The Super Mario series is turning 35 this year, and Nintendo has big plans for the plumber's birthday. From a report: That includes updating and bringing back most of his games for Nintendo Switch, according to a report from Video Games Chronicle. Eurogamer is backing up that report, and GamesBeat can as well. The core of the report is that Nintendo originally planned to focus on Mario's 35th anniversary at E3 (the Electronic Entertainment Expo) in Los Angeles in June. But organizers canceled that event due to the spread of the coronavirus. Nintendo is going ahead with that promotion, and it will likely hold a Direct-style event to provide all of the details. That includes info on remasters, a Paper Mario game, the upcoming Mario film, and Universal Studios' Super Nintendo World theme park. For the remasters, our source is telling us that Nintendo is pursuing something like a Super Mario All-Stars 2 for the 3D Mario games. This would include Super Mario 64, Super Mario Sunshine, and then Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Galaxy 2.
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  • It seems all these old games are getting re-released for NEW GRAPHICS DUDE! It is really sad that they have to sell these games again because they are out of ideas. They don't go in and tell people how remarkable these old games were because they overcame certain technological limitations of the time, like the demo scene, but they have to bank off the name and ruin the fascination behind the gameplay.
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    • There are plenty of new ideas. But many (most?) consumers are looking back to what they believe were the good old days instead of our bleak future. Just looking at Netflix right now, people are watching old TV series and movies. Youtube is showing a lot more old music and reactions to old music. People are listening to classic rock right now while they try and hide from reality.

    • You realize they're also constantly releasing new games, right? Oh no, wait, you have no idea what you're talking about. I see.

    • That's all a matter of perspective.

      When I go in to Best Buy or any other store that sells video games, I see mostly FPS games. I don't see why we need a 12th clone or remake of Doom, but clearly there is a market for it. I am not part of that market, tough I could be part of the market for new Mario games.

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by alvian ( 6203170 )
      There are many younger gamers who have never had the chance to play this classics. They still hold up even to this day. And how many of us still have a TVs with composite video inputs.

    • There are entire communities devoted to documenting and even restoring removed and dummied-out content in games, these re-releases seldom say "Know what? Let's add in this thing we were gonna add but couldn't".

    • the Super Mario Brothers games for the NES are great, fun games with exceptional overall design, and Mario 64 is also a very high quality game, not exactly my taste, but absolutely worth "remastering". Eventually, it's about MAKING MONEY, they're a company, you know, but there's nothing bad about "reviving" great "old games" if it's done right. There are some excellent new games nowadays too. By far, most games back in the NES days were also quite crappy. Very good, fun, high quality games have never been

      • "the Super Mario Brothers games for the NES are great, fun games with exceptional overall design, and Mario 64 is also a very high quality game, not exactly my taste, but absolutely worth "remastering""

        I've recently started playing Mario 64 again, and while it looks and feels like Mario, the mid 1990s 3D graphics seem a bit dull compared to it's 2D SNES counterparts, sometimes to the point of being distracting. I would like to see a re-release of Mario 64 which makes it look and feel more like a SNE

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      by account_deleted ( 4530225 )
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    • No, not at all. They are on a winning formula as was shown with the re-releases of classic platformers. Why not continue making money when you've shown that you can do it?

      Also the release of new graphics on an old game is hardly new, and it's only a sign that you're ignoring new ideas if you don't release new ideas based on your existing IP. There was a Tokyo Olympic themed sports game, and an animated film set for release shortly as well, so they clearly have idea. Not good ideas, but ideas nonetheless.

      I'm

  • 35th anniversary? Who celebrates that? I've always had a suspicion that Nintendo has sat on these kinds of remake/re-releases to have a guaranteed income during a tough time. There is no way they won't make piles of cash. I'd love to play mario64 on my switch.

    • I don't know, Sony is remaking PS3 games for the PS4 and charging full price. Nintendo rarely does a remake rather than a port. If it's anything like Wind Waker HD, though, it will be well worth it.

    • 35th anniversary? Who celebrates that?

      Err a lot of people. The 35th birthday is a huge event in many countries. It's often seen as the next big one after 18 or 21.

  • I am assuming New Super Mario Bros type '3D', not recreating the NES/SNES games in a fully 3D environment and adding new game mechanics. Ho-hum, they already did this with Mario All Stars back in the 1990s, and in my personal opinion anyway, those SNES ports have actually aged very well during the past 25 years. There is really nothing that can be done with them but to load them down with useless eye candy.

    • No, these are the N64 through Wii U releases that are already 3D. Those All Stars ports were updated and re-released on the Game Boy Advance, though.

      • "Those All Stars ports were updated and re-released on the Game Boy Advance, though"

        There were new features added (content added/unlocked by the card reader for one IIRC), bit otherwise they look and play the same as their SNES counterparts.

        The most they can do now is make them fully 3d like Mario 64, but these would be entirely new games based on their namesakes. That would be interesting. Imagine SMB2 or 3 being redone like this, where you have full freedom to explore the fortresses and air ships like Mar

  • Love it or hate it, the old SMB movie was a very campy and trashy film, and it has a cult following.

      Somehow, I don't think this new movie is going to recreate the gritty charm of 1980s/early 1990s trash flicks.

  • That's been much earlier, March 14 1983 to be exact. https://www.mariowiki.com/Mari... [mariowiki.com]

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