The original Super Mario Bros team have gotten together to discuss the future of the Mario series in a new Nintendo Museum book created to celebrate the game’s 40th anniversary. One of the questions posed to the team is whether or not they think the Mario series can remain popular up to its 100th anniversary in 2085. They concede that in order for the Super Mario series to remain relevant, Mario games will have to continue to evolve with the advent of new technology and new gameplay ideas.
Takashi Tezuka:
“One might think it would be a miracle if Mario was still here after 100 years, since we make things while not knowing when our players may get bored with them. If it’s not fun to play, you’ll get bored, and I’m always thinking of how to keep it so that something like that doesn’t happen so that people keep playing.”
“Different times bring different kinds of fun. What Mario can do now is completely different from when we started out. I want to continue making things people find fun to play, including the actions you do, by changing things little by little.”
“I think it’d make me very happy if we can share that chance to experience Mario together with family and friends. We’ll continue to make Mario games for a long time, so please look forward to them.”
Shigeru Miyamoto:
“It’s a given that Super Mario will constantly evolve by incorporating new digital technology. Now we’re working in visual fields like movies, but I want to make sure we keep it interactive and digital. As long as we don’t forget Mario’s prime point – running and jumping – as we add new things, I think Mario will be with us for a long time to come.”
“Nintendo takes on unique challenges, and if a new technology is interesting, I believe that by incorporating that technology, we can make that fun expand and grow-like rolling up snow for a snowman. So I hope that you will continue to stick with us.”
Let’s get Odyssey 2
Good. I hope that next “evolution” comes to Switch 2 sooner rather than later. It’s been 8 years since the last tentpole 3D Mario game.
Ok. That’s a long years away and I don’t understand why they brought up that long 100th anniversary. Mario franchise will continue to evolve.
It’s a bit rude to bring up Mario’s 100th anniversary, Miyamoto will not even live to see that, even I would be 102 😂 what planet do you have to live on to get excited for something that far ahead?
I think the only birthday left Miyamoto could possibly think about is Mario’s 50th, the 60th may not be something he’s seriously considering ☺️
Just like Mickey Mouse, Mario will be around forever, poor old Mickey hasn’t even had his 100th yet, so let’s think about that first shall we? Only 3 years left to that 😄
We don’t need to jeep evolving or adding gimmicks, eventually you’ll hit a wall and then just throw unwanted features. If It’s not Broke, if the core Gameplay isn’t broken, sometimes its better to just do more of the same. You can change things up with enemies snd locations and power ups. Sometimes people just want sequels to have more of what they already enjoyed.
I saw an article a few days ago of someone mentioning graphics are starting to hit a wall now. Once you can’t tell the difference between real and graphics, you’ve finally hit that wall. Nintendo probably realized this was gonna happen many years ago so they stopped chasing power to focus on fun gimmicks instead, letting the competition focus on the graphics side of things. “Let the pawns go first.” to quote Ian McKellan’s Magneto.
Many claimed for years that Nintendo is always a gen or 2 behind and they were foolish for doing it (I’m guilty of it), but now the jokes on us. Nintendo’s gonna catch up. And when they do, their exclusives is what’s gonna put them right back on top again. The lack of a disc player for movies and music isn’t an issue these days, either, what with all the streaming apps. It feels like Nintendo was playing the long game this entire time and none of us, not even them, knew it til recently. As the tortoise and the hare story goes: slow and steady wins the race.
Spider-Man is coming to Switch 2! Justin is excited!
“Needs to continue evolving to maintain relevance,” eh?
Although it’s true, where was that logic when New Super Mario Bros. 2 and NSMB U released months apart in 2012 and had no evolution between them, or worse yet, little evolution since 2009’s NSMB Wii?
I don’t agree with this, I think you can only evolve so much before you start adding gimmicks and features people don’t want. Many people, myself included want sequels not for new gimmicks but because we want more of what we had. Not something that plays different. Keep the Gameplay but change things in other ways, enemies, locations world size, power ups. NSMB didn’t have to be so repetitive and boring if they were more creative like in Mario Land w.
I don’t agree with this, I think you can only evolve so much before you start adding gimmicks and features people don’t want. Many people, myself included want sequels not for new gimmicks but because we want more of what we had. Not something that plays different. Keep the Gameplay but change things in other ways, enemies, locations world size, power ups. NSMB didn’t have to be so repetitive and boring if they were more creative like in Mario Land w.
I don’t agree with this, I think you can only evolve so much before you start adding gimmicks and features people don’t want. Many people, myself included want sequels not for new gimmicks but because we want more of what we had. Not something that plays different. Keep the Gameplay but change things in other ways, enemies, locations world size, power ups. NSMB didn’t have to be so repetitive and boring if they were more creative like in Mario Land 2
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