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Miyamoto: Super Mario Galaxy 3 Is Possible But Would Be On New Nintendo Hardware

Eurogamer has had the opportunity to interview Mr. Miyamoto about a number of things including the highly requested Super Mario Galaxy 3. The game has to be one of the most requested titles by Nintendo and Shigeru Miyamoto knows this. However, he says that if they did make a new Super Mario Galaxy game it would be on new Nintendo hardware which presumably means the Nintendo NX.

“[A new Mario Galaxy] is always in discussion. But even with Mario 64 there was a lot of feedback about motion sickness with the 3D or maybe us making it too difficult.

“Going back to our roots and making New Super Mario Bros., anyone can play that,” Miyamoto continued. “So that’s why we went back.

“We’re always thinking, is there a middle ground where people who do enjoy the 3D worlds of Galaxy and those who enjoy New Super Mario Bros. can both enjoy it? We’re always looking at those opportunities,” he added.

“On the other hand, me and [Yoshiaki] Koizumi-san, director of Galaxy, are always looking to challenge Galaxy and do another 3D action title. However we can’t make so many games at once in parallel.

“But as the hardware technology gets better and advances, I think there will be a lot of opportunity for both options.”

When asked what extra hardware power would be needed – and whether this meant Nintendo would now wait for its upcoming NX console – Miyamoto was coy:

“Wii U’s definitely good enough in terms of hardware performance, it is more the workload of the team. If you look at Star Fox Zero, the TV and GamePad are both rendered in 60 frames, so in total that’s 120 frames. It’s really just a matter of the CPU speed at this point.”

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    1. Shut the fuck up for the last time. As a pot smoker who has been smoking far longer than you, shut the fuck up. Nobody cares that you smoke, or your constant need to remind people that you do. Your stupid high school name skeletons420 made it obvious enough. You are such an embarrassing pot head it makes me sick. You’re clearly a noob cause only noobs and high schoolers constantly brag about pot smoking like they are cool because of it.

  1. Miyamoto stop trying to mix both the 3d series and 2d series together! Some of us simply just want a galaxy 3/sunshine 2!! Overuse of “innovation” is extremely boring…because it becomes no surprise to gamers when you change things up again…if you’re always changing things up! Pointless, isn’t it?

        1. i was waiting for this news for a while from Shigeru Miyamoto to work on another squeal for the game and i just want this game to be on the Wii U but now it cant thanks to the NX news info so im guessing super mario galaxy 3 will be on the NX but the graphics will be more accurate on the next gen hardware and im sure nintendo will come up ideas for the story of the game.

          1. Even if they hadn’t announced it that wouldn’t make a difference, they never even said NX, it really could be on anything.

            1. you could be right but we don’t know if it might be on the NX or the Wii U before many fans wanted another mario galaxy game i hope nintendo understand about the platform games and the elements between 3D world and galaxy

      1. It’s not retarded you retard. Too much changes in short term is not a good thing for a few reasons like burning out your think tank of ideas too quickly and annoy the masses with too many changes going on almost at once.

        1. You actually make some good points.
          Same reason Windows 8 bombed so bad, I actually loved it, but for most of their market, it was like putting a hot coffee pot on a cold counter, it shatters.

          So, point well made!

                1. Mayaswell let them work the bugs out. I’m staying with 8.1 untill I see a good reason to upgrade, probably 6-12 months.

                1. IKR?? Omg, Vista was a NIGHTMARE. Dear God…it was so bad, I left windows for a few years, and used a free Linux OS (Linux Mint, great free OS) – Wow. Vista… I thought Microsoft lost their shit when that came out.

            1. Also, for it’s first run, it should have booted to “Desktop” mode and only booted to Metro mode if on a tablet. Desktop users were like, “What the fuck???”

              1. HollowGrapeJ (The Legendary Video Game Master And Anime Wizard)

                I have Windows 8.1 and I haven’t seen that problem. I’m guessing they fixed it. Lol.

      1. But that doesn’t mean scrapping the galaxy formulae entirely! Rehash or not, most people desperately want a new galaxy/sunshine game…not every new entry has to be the pinincl of originality you know…

        1. It’s not like Mario Galaxy 2 did change things up all that much… admit it, you just want MG3 for the HD graphics.. and that’s fine too, but you should have noticed by now that “upgraded graphics” is not a valid reason for Nintendo to create a new entry in a series.

          1. It changed enough though to warrant a new instalment though. And stop making assumptions about me! Not every game has to be 100% original to be lots of fun!

            1. “It changed enough though to warrant a new instalment though.”

              Yes it did, else they wouldn’t have done it.. and now they don’t have enough material to warrant a new installment, or at least not enough to warrant prioritizing MG over other franchises, else they’d be creating a new MG right now.
              This is how Nintendo has been handling their franchises for years and it has served them and the quality of their franchises quite well.

              “And stop making assumptions about me!”

              If you ask for a rehash, rather than nothing at all, then that sounds like asking for a graphics upgrade to me.

              1. You do realise that Nintendo probably has a bunch of new ideas they could implement into a galaxy 3…let alone a sunshine 2?

                If pissing off fan bases like fzero, metroid, earthbound, etc… is “handling their franchises well” then you sir have very low standards! Most people would be satisfied with a “”rehash”” instalment instead of…
                A.Getting no new games
                B.Getting something that plays nothing like what they care about *cough* federation force *cough*

                And no, I wasn’t asking for a rehash but rather a new instalment…because I automatically assume Nintendo has the capabilities to make another good one.

                Nope. People like Mario games because they use interesting concepts applied to the gun Mario gameplay. That’s why people really want a galaxy3/sunshine2 because they were fun! Also, you make it sound like it takes only one or two “unoriginal” titles to destroy interest in a franchise which is funny as hell!

                If gamers do actually want a “”rehash”” then you the hell are you to deny them that?

            2. Forgot to add this: The reason *why* people so desperately want a new Mario game (or insert any other franchise) is precisely because Nintendo manages to add something new to the table everytime.. once they stop doing that, and simply start to dish out a new Mario title like Ubisoft does with Assassins Creed, people will stop looking forward to new installments in the same way that they are now.

              1. So you are saying that Ubisoft’s Assasins Creed shouldn’t be popular, yet it is. Even though there is little new it is still INSAINELY popular.

            3. i was waiting for this news for a while from Shigeru Miyamoto to work on another squeal for the game and i just want this game to be on the Wii U but now it cant thanks to the NX news info so im guessing super mario galaxy 3 will be on the NX but the graphics will be more accurate on the next gen hardware and im sure nintendo will come up ideas for the story of the game.

    1. Same here. I don’t know why, but the idea of a 3rd Galaxy entry is anything but attractive to me. Maybe it’s because Galaxy 2 came out too soon after Galaxy 1, maybe it’s because both came out on the same platform/same gen. I really don’t know.
      As you’ve said, I’d much rather have a remake of an older title, most preferably Sunshine, or just an entirely new concept. Galaxy seems too overdone to me personally, to be honest. I don’t really understand why people want another entry when the last one wasn’t even all that long ago, but that’s just me, of course.

      1. Hmm, I didn’t play Galaxy until more recently as I did not own a Wii before until the last year, and I absolutely loved the game. The gameplay was fluid and addicting. The graphics wefe clear and colorful. The art style was actually quite beautiful at times in my opinion, and I really thought that it was one of the greatesr Nintendo games I had ever played. Honestly, I would consider actually buying another Nintendo home console just gor a new Galaxy game. I guess we all have differing opinions on games though, so I don’t mean to argue, I just wanted to share how I felt.

        1. I agree with you, Galaxy definitely was a great game, and I enjoyed it a lot. I liked 1 better than 2 actually, but that’s probably 1 was entirely new and we hadn’t had anything quite like it before. With Galaxy 2, you were still somewhat familiar with the enviornment and all that stuff. Still a good game though, of course. But yea, I still wouldn’t want a new Galaxy game anytime soon, honestly. It’s totally alright if you want another one though – as you’ve said, people just have different opinions.
          And thanks for sharing. :)

      2. Most of them are probably young and it’s all they know. I’ve noticed a lot of young nintendo fans are desperate to seem as if they know the best nintendo games and what’s up but most of them have terrible taste.

    2. Damn right dude, 64 was the best hands down. Can’t stand the youngins that think otherwise. Galaxy 1 & 2 and sunshine were all great don’t get me wrong but 64 is where it’s at. Best music and levels and bosses. You can’t even punch/kick in the other ones damn it!

    3. Thats just nostalgic thinking. 64 was plain. Its was just introducing 3D Mario. Galaxy actually did something impressive with it.

  2. I appreciate Miyamoto’s ambition but come on. We literally get a new New Super Mario bros. every year, can’t we get a new 3D Mario game every 2 or 3 years?

      1. maximilliongalactica42

        And we have been getting a 3D Mario every 3 years. Super Mario 3D World released in 2013, SMG2 released in 2010, and SMG released in 2007.

    1. LOL, you are so stupid! The last NSMB game was literally a Wii U launch title, released by the end of 2012. If you take New Super Luigi U, then it is 2013. But there was no game in 2014, no NSMB game in 2015 and they did not announce anything for 2016. LMFAO I love when dumbasses like you are butthurt because of imaginary things!

          1. I just want new level tropes, I don’t know if you seen the fan mod Newer Super Mario Bros. Wii, but that’s what I want from Nintendo. Check out the trailer if you’ve never seen it, it’s honestly better than most official 2D Mario games.

    2. a new NSMB game every year? They were released rather close on the 3DS and Wii U, yes, but there’s only one game per console.

    3. New Mario Bros. isn’t an annual release game dummy. First one (DS) came in 2006. 3 years later, Wii version came out and then two more (New Mario Bros. 2 & U) in 2012. That’s it. We haven’t had a 3D Mario game (not counting 3D World) since 2010. It’s been a while.

      1. 3D World is a 3D Mario game. It’s LITERALLY called “3D” World. Just because it’s not what you wanted (just assuming here, because you complain and whine about everything) doesn’t mean it’s not a 3D Mario game.

        1. No, that’s not “3d”. Can you move around levels like in Mario 64, Sunshine or Galaxy? No. Then it’s not a real 3d Mario game. It’s fake 3d, where its a 2d level slightly expanded. The path is fixed, no exploration, no hidden reward.

  3. *sighs* “another journey for Mario in space. Can I please catch a break, send him somewhere else, what more can he do here?”

  4. They aren’t working on galaxy 3? That’s great! Hopefully this means that the 3d Mario game in development right now is something cool and unexpected like sunshine.

  5. That last statement made me laugh, because it’s not even remotely true.

    Not that it matters if Galaxy 3 is a launch title or a year follow up if this NX. I’m not going back so Nintendo can fuck me over again with their dumbass casual-gaming wetdream.

    1. are you made because they are not following there demands and they are not gonna make a mario game that is more excitement and causal.

      1. First off, fix your English and double check it when you type and second, I don’t give a shit what they make or not anymore. They’re finished. IDK WTF this “Nintendo” is but its no longer the Nintendo I respected. They wanna chase after little queer casual fucks that already flocked away for fucking Microtransaction-riddled 5 minute, one-tap mobile garbage instead of actual video games, be my guest because I’m not following either dumbasses to nowhere.

            1. Then why the hell do you go to this website?
              No, seriously.. is it just to inject your negative opinions and whiny-bitch attitude on every goddamn article?

              Yes, Nintendo is so “casual” – tell that to Smash Bros U, DK Tropical Freeze, Splatoon, Mario Kart 8, Pikmin 3, Mario Maker, Mario 3D World, Bayonetta 2, Wooly World, Xenoblade, Star Fox, Wind Waker HD… you’re so delusional if you think those games cater to only a casual crowd.
              If anyone is a troll, it’s your whiny ass.

              Not going back to Nintendo??? You’re so full of shit, you’re CONSTANTLY on this website. I only click this site 3-5 times a week, and you’re ALWAYS down in these comments causing a fuss like a little baby. Seeing your comments just always boggles my mind – like, dude, if you don’t care, why the fuck are you here?
              Nintendo didn’t do SHIT to you, they don’t owe you ANYTHING. Get off your make-believe high-horse – get on with your goddamn life.

              Nintendo is one of the VERY FEW developers left that still make some quality titles – COMPLETE AT LAUNCH, THANK GOODNESS – so your little rants are so biased and delusional it’s actually quite hilarious. You’re entitled to your opinion, but here’s a little tip – the more you COMPLAIN and BITCH about everything and life, the more miserable you’ll be – and you sound pretty miserable! Look for something you can ENJOY instead of being so fucking bitter!

              That’s all I have to say. I know I usually comment on your whines when I see them, but I promise I’ll just avoid them now. I honestly can’t stand your fucking negativity. Complaining about everything accomplishes NOTHING. And that’s a fact! Want change? Do something about it!!!

              1. Correction: most complete at launch. Splatoon was far from being complete when it was first released since they held back content because said content needed some work done on it. Speaking of Splatoon, sorry to break it to ya but that game is casual. 2 minute online matches, no online match customization, arenas are set on a rotating system, content was held back because casuals can’t handle everything all at once. Oh & don’t even get me started on Metroid Prime: Federation ChibiShitForce.

              2. Yeah…because it’s not like Nintendo sacrificed power for the Wii u so they could have the gamepad and cut the costs down….oh wait lol!

              3. And what you think they’ve done for any of those games? No ads, missing a essentials like MK8’s proper Battle Mode, Smash Bros. U better single player mode or Splatoon’s OPTIONAL Voice Chat FOR FRIENDS ONLY. I don’t recall most of the games getting the same advertising treatment as Splatoon and yet, it’s not selling as much as predicted. Get over it and realize that Nintendo has slipped and decided to stay down on their casual side. The SNES/N64/GameCube hardcore side of Nintendo is dead.

  6. “middle ground where people who do enjoy the 3D worlds of Galaxy and those who enjoy New Super Mario Bros.”

    Oooh, now Mario 3D World and 3D Land make a lot of more sense now.

      1. HollowGrapeJ (The Legendary Video Game Master And Anime Wizard)

        Super Mario 3D World was fantastic for me. I just wish there were more levels.

      2. Nintendo developed 3DWorld like that because they knew that if they were to develop a real mainline 3D Mario, it would take too long, and consumers would drop like flies. So instead they opted towards an easy and fast developing strategy that would finish the game early enough to be in the market.

    1. how did you not know that

      this is were 3d world failed it was nintendos weird obsession with OH PEOPLE ARE FEAR 3D MARIO THEY CANNOT DEAL WITH IT

      EVERYONE BUYS 2D MARIO BUT I AS A DEVELOPER WANT TO MAKE 3D MARIO

      SO HE MADE 3D WORLD TRYING TO MAKE A HALF WAY MARIO,IT FLOPPED IN SALES

      ITS A GREAT GAME -THAT NO ONE WANTED THATS THE ISSUE

      NINTENDO NEED TO MADE A KILLER AMAZING GRAPHICS-PHYSICS 2D MARIO

      AND A AMAZING 3D MARIO AND SELL BOTH

      THATS THE SIMPLE ANSWER,SHIGSY IS OBSESSED WITH BLAMING THE CONSUMER ITS NOT THE CONSUMERS FAULT ITS HIS FAULT

      STOP MAKING COMPROMIZES INSTEAD MAKE GAMES

      SAME WITH METROID WE NEED A 2D 2.5 D METROID AND A FULLY BLOWN 3D METROID

      STOP MAKING COMPROMIZES START MAKING GAMES

        1. kill the kiddy catcher

          ITS THE LOWEST SEKLING 3D MARIO EVER

          IT ALSO FAILED TO SELL WIIU’S

          WAKE UP AND GROW UP

          MARIO 3D LAND ON 3DS SOLD 10 MILLION STILL SELLING TO THIS DAY

          MARIO GALAXY AND GALAXY 2 COMBINED SOLD 18 MILLION

          3 MILLION IN MARIO TERMS IS A COMPLETE FAIL,MARIO 3D WORLD IN CONSOLE SALES TERMS IS A COMPLETE FAIL

  7. MARIO 64 ON N64 AND DS COMBINED HIT 22 MILLION SALES

    GALAXY 1 AND 2 HIT 18 MILLION SALES -THEN ADD THE WIIU ESHOP VERSIONS ON TOP OF THAT!!!!

    MARIO 3D LAND HIT 10 MILLION SALES ON 3DS

    MARIO 3D WORLD HAS HIT 3 MILLION SALES=TOTAL FLOP

      1. IT IS A FLOP IN MARIO TERMS AND CONSOLE SALE TERMS

        IT IS THE >>>>>>>LOWEST SELLING<<<<< MARIO GAME OF ALL TIME = FLOP

        IM NOT CALLING NINTENDO NAMES IM BEING HONEST IM THE BIGGEST NINTENDO FAN THERE IS

        I ALSO INVEST IN NINTENDO I MADE A FUTUNE FROM WII DS ERA

        I CALLED THE MOTION AND POINT CONTROLS IN 2003 WAY BEFORE NINTENDO SHOWED IT

        IT IS A FACT 3D WORLD IS A FLOP

        1. That is not a fact AT ALL. Those games are loved by me, it’s just not what everyone wanted, so people think they were bad. Flop is less than 1 million to me.

    1. guys nintendo is still keeping track of the profits and the sells besides they make alot of money every month to get those projects and hardware pay off.

  8. LOOK AT HIS CPU COMMENTS

    NX IS A OVER CLOCKED WIIU WITH MORE RAM BANDWIDTH,AND A NEW CUSTOM CPU

    CALLED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!

    LIKELY A ARM- EXPRESSO POWERPC HYBRID CPU WITH MORE CORES AND HIGHER CLOCKSPEED AND MORE CATCH

  9. If the next 3D Mario game is made easy due to casuals and kids I’m gonna flip. No offense but FUCK the kids. When us elders were kids, we played MUCH harder games and didn’t cry. Since when do this little shits need their hands held. Let them die constantly and get good like we did. And if not fuck it you don’t deserve to beat the game.

    1. HollowGrapeJ (The Legendary Video Game Master And Anime Wizard)

      It’s because if it’s made easier and more accessible to new players, more people will buy. If it’s just straight up tough as nails, WTF a kid wanna play a game he will constantly die in and not enjoy? The better option here would be to add a difficulty option. That way, everyone can play the way they want to.

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  11. I would love a Mario Sunshine 2 or Galaxy 3 or something new. No remakes or continuation to 3D World please. Shit was bland and boring. Only Mario game I ever played with zero expression on my face. It’s not challenging, it’s not original, it has the least plot by far out of any 3d mario game, I can’t believe i had more fun playing NSMB. I always held the 3d mario games to a standard…& I don’t know wtf 3D World is suppose to be in the face of that standard. It’s pretty to look at, but besides that it doesn’t do anything for me.

  12. Good to hear that Nintendo is developing awesome games for upcoming console. Instead of borrowing the console from my friend, I might get it for myself.

  13. mario sunshine WAS HORRIBLE looked like shite played like shite was borring as FUCK

    mario 64 and galaxy one and two 3d world were all great games

    3d world didnt click with consumers should have had online and wasnt selling due to consumer ignorence and disinterest

    1. Super Sunshine looked beautiful for a 2002 game. It’s not fair to call a game horrible because you didn’t like it, it’s just not for you. I don’t personally like A Link to the Past, but I still view it as a great game.

    2. mario sunshine was a great game i ever played the story line was perfect and seeing peach and bowser talk normally is awsome instead of using text speech they should do another for that instead of using text speech.

      1. Super Mario Sunshine is my favorite game of all time, mostly because I’m nostalgic towards it, but that doesn’t change the fact that it’s a fantastic game.

        1. it was a fantastic game i’m surprise that nintendo add alot of things in it and too bad it does not have 2 players

      2. Unless Bowser is going to be given a deeper, more intimidating voice, I’d rather he just stick to growling with subtitles to translate what the hell he’s saying. Same for if they ever, ever decide to have Ridley talk. Their voice actor & their tone better be pretty intimidating, badass, & scary or I don’t want to hear them utter a single fucking word.

  14. wii u specs have been revealed

    wii u gpu with 50% clock increase and optermizations high per clock performance running at 825mhz 32mb edram (2x wiiu gpu)

    custom cpu 4core, expresso- ARM hybrid supports both arm and expresso coding custom compression dual neon simd engines custom instructions-regestrys

    2mb edram catch per core running at 1650 mhz (4x wiiu) cpu

    ram 2gb ddr3 like wiiu but with 50% bandwidth boost

    4gb gddr 5 WITH 3X bandwidth of wiiu ram

    6gb total ddr3 is for OS sound and junk data anything slow

    gddr5 is dedicated to game data and can feed the gpu at the same time the edram does giving a big boost to performance

    NX is 3X WIIU real world peak performance

  15. So Nintendo is putting the Wii U behind them and putting it under the rug huh? I hope the NX is powerful and the rumors are to be somewhat true. If EA, and Ubisoft and others are on board…It better stay like that. Because if they fuck up again….There will no holding on these tough waters that the industry is in right now.

    1. im guessing nintendo is holding back on tbe Wii U just like they are holding back on the gamecube so they are leaving the consoles behind and also they can still make games on the Wii U but the Wii U system will last 3 and 4 years they might do something special for the company.

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  17. i was waiting for this news for a while from Shigeru Miyamoto to work on another squeal for the game and i just want this game to be on the Wii U but now it cant thanks to the NX news info so im guessing super mario galaxy 3 will be on the NX but the graphics will be more accurate on the next gen hardware and im sure nintendo will come up ideas for the story of the game.

  18. Don’t you fucking do a Mario Galaxy 3 Miyamoto! We don’t need a 2nd blemish on your record. It would be just as bad as Wii Music. We could overlook that one, but a Galaxy 3 would be beyond stupid.

    1. Oh & for fuck sakes, nothing with fucking New in the name followed by Super Mario Bros.

      As for the motion sickness thing, fuck the people that suffer it. They can stick with Super Mario Maker if they can’t handle the Mario games in the vein of Super Mario 64. Compared to millions that don’t suffer it, fuck the minority that can’t handle it. Japan aren’t your only fucking customers, Ninten

      http://realfoodpharmacist.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/homer-doh.png

      1. HollowGrapeJ (The Legendary Video Game Master And Anime Wizard)

        “Super Extremely Very New And Totally Not Reshashed At All New Super Mario Bros… New Edition”

  19. Well……I think Miyamoto just confirmed that Super Mario Galaxy 3 will heading to the NX and possibly Pikmin 4 as well and couldn’t be even happier. If these are indeed the launch games for the NX, then it’s gonna be off to a very promising start

    1. Thats a shame. I have to pay $300 to play Pikmin 4 because his lazy ass did start on it immediately after Pikmin 3.

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  22. Why didnt they just make Galaxy 3 immediately after Galaxy 2? Could have been on wii u. But Nintendo rather wait 3-5 years on breaks. I guess Galaxy 4 and Pikmin 5 will be on the system after NX .

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