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Nintendo Says Mario Maker Is Unlikely To Include Multiplayer

Takashi Tezuka has said that it’s unlikely that Mario Maker for the Wii U will include a multiplayer option. Tezuka explained that the team will focus on the creation aspects of the intriguing title. He concluded by saying that they are looking into ways for players to share their wonderful creations.

Is there going to be the ability to have multiplayer/co-op like what we see in New Super Mario Bros Wii and Wii U? If not, will there be different selectable characters?

“Yes, I would like to use other characters, for one, and as far as multiplayer, I’m pretty set on probably not. What’s important about this game is the creation part, and we really want to focus on that.”

Has it been hard to create a medium for players to share the courses or toys they create? Did it have to be built from the ground up or has there been something else (like a store) that has been worked on that Nintendo has been creating for other titles?

“That’s actually something that we’re working on now. We actually have a lot of different options, but we’re trying to figure out what would be the best for this game. We could use Miiverse as a platform, possibly export videos to YouTube or we can have something built straight into Mario Maker, and we’re just evaluating our options right now.”

43 thoughts on “Nintendo Says Mario Maker Is Unlikely To Include Multiplayer”

      1. Light Yagami AKA Đonko AKA Kira AKA Justice AKA God of the new world AKA The Second L

        so what’s the point in making a level if you yourself are going to play it?

      1. Not exactly. I guess I didn’t think of that before, but I mean that sometimes it would be a wonky or not-well crafted multiplayer. I could imagine seeing that there would be some problems with the multiplayer if they had it. Lol I don’t know :P

  1. Multiplayer would be nice, but it’s not a deal breaker.

    The single most important aspect of this game is getting the level sharing right.

    1. SherlockWillFightBilbo

      No, because people can watch us sit on a couch for 20 minutes pondering a level that will end up being terrible!!!

        1. Vr kinda makes u blind to surroundings, its kinda why I’m not a fan of online gaming, u can’t see, nor u can’t truly express ur self with others, I still think VR isn’t perfect yet maybe tech gets better, its really hard to express my opinion as well

          1. Light Yagami AKA Đonko AKA Kira AKA Justice AKA God of the new world AKA The Second L

            You like looking around as you play games?You make a whole lot of sense.If nintendo said they were making VR, you’d be like “yeaah, baby, gimme my VR, it’s the thing i was waiting for”, but since they aren’t you’re shitting all over it.

            1. I’m not hating on it, nor would i be fanboy about it, just don’t think its at that level, I still feel were still a long ways from it being accessible to everyone. Miyamoto doesn’t feel its a good together device, which its kinda not right now. I can really see this being more single player experience. Also developers aren’t going to take a risk on something they aren’t sure how people will react to. I think it has its benifets if used right like stuff like this

  2. This game going to be so boring you made the the level why would you want to play it. Plus if you get stuck playing someone else game there no tutorials or guide to turn to. I know some people will like it but as for me i don’t really care about it

  3. It is not an important issue, but it is though damn easy to include the possibility to play in multi local (as in other NSMB games), so I really don’t get why they deliberately choose not to include it.
    But well, this will not prevent me from buying this game as long as the sharing/records/TT stuff is well done !

    1. L. Lawliet also known as Đonko

      well, you know, nintendo cannot make things work together, they have to pick
      strong single player or mutiplayer
      offline or online
      open world games or content
      true innovation or gimmicks

      well, they can in smash bros, but for that game they need 5,6 years and a billion studios working on it

  4. Okay, I’m definitely still getting it, but I would love to be able to play with my family on the courses we create.

  5. Wait, sharing videos by youtube? I’m not interested in that, I want to share levels with other players to /play/ them o_O

  6. I think the best idea for sharing would be the code system they use in the Mario Vs DK games; And if they don’t put in some way of going from Miiverse to a level, people can just put the level codes on there.

  7. Multiplayer is not needed here. The game is so much based on custom levels by one individual.

    If they make it possible to share created levels so that others can play them, they’ll hit the jackpot on this game.

  8. They should have Donkey Kong as a character. Not only that. Have the levels intergrated in the game not by miiverse because i’m permanetly banned :P

  9. I really like this game already, but I hope they put cooperative play in, cooperative games are my favorite. That is why I love Wii Sports, MarioKart, SSB, SuperMario3DWorld, MarioStrikers, Madden, Halo, GearsofWar, ResidentEvil5, all these games have cooperative play.

  10. Nintendo Commander Quadraxis

    This game is obviously made to share with people around the world so multiplayer almost becomes useless…

      1. Nintendo Commander Quadraxis

        Well I was mainly talking about our empire’s point of view considering they have the habit of implementing features that doesn’t go well with the real world from time to time…

        Personally I don’t care one way or the other but it would be the best if both things were present…

  11. I’m still having a diffucult time understanding the overall point of this game. I know you can create your own Super Mario Bros. levels. But then what? What’s the point?

    1. Nintendo Commander Quadraxis

      The point is to satisfy all the 2D Mario fans forever because I highly doubt they will ever release another 2D Mario in the near or distant future…

  12. I don’t need multiplayer, but it would be nice to have an option for someone else to hold a controller and play stuff you’re working on without actually having to hand the gamepad to them.

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