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Miyamoto: Mario Will Likely Return To Single-Player

Dylan Newcome - May look to explore the Galaxy further.

When Mario fans heard that a 3D Mario platformer for Wii U would be shown at E3, expectations were undoubtedly high and varied. Many had their own ideas about what Mario's 3D foray into high-definition would look and play like, but it would have been difficult to predict a successor to Super Mario 3D Land. Fan reactions to the announcement were certainly mixed, with some questioning the decision to focus on multiplayer.

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PopRocks3594704d ago

The sooner the better if Nintendo won't bother to make the multiplayer ones online.

Concertoine4704d ago

i dont understand the disagrees personally. i enjoyed my wii for 3 solid years, but as soon as i joined all my friends on 360 and we had a blast playing online games and such, a online coop mario is a dream.
the fact that nintendo won't take things beyond the couch is really frusturating, especially with my mario buddy moving 6 hours away -_-

PigPen4704d ago

Online is to choppy for a Super Mario game. Online is limited to how it's being used. Online is best at matches, but can be used in other ways like Monster Hunter. For a Super Mario game, I think Nintendo made the best choice. Super Mario is that type of game you play together with family, not with friends online.

Kurylo3d4703d ago (Edited 4703d ago )

family cant be online?
And to say a 4 player game would be choppy is a joke. I can understand 10 player, but most internet companies will allow u to host a server and not throttle u if only 3 poeple are connecting to it.

Mr_Nuts4704d ago (Edited 4704d ago )

So can they at least confirm whether or not this is the Wii U "spiritual" successor to Super Mario 64, Sunshine and Galaxy.

Because this looks like what New Super Mario Bros U was to the handhelds New Super Mario Bros.

Here it seems like we have gotten a console version of Super Mario 3D Land

Rusty5154704d ago (Edited 4704d ago )

It's sad that you got downvoted for actually speaking the truth. 3D World IS basically a sequel to 3D Land. I'm sorry, but for a console this is just unacceptable. It's sad that there's a actually nintendo fanboys who support this. It's just damage control after damage control. Where's the third party support? "it's the developers fault! Not nintendos." Where's the games? "Just wait till 2014!" Yeah Two years AFTER the consoles release. Why's the console so overpriced? "Because Nintendo had to make the touchpad!" Why did Nintendo need the touchpad? What's wrong with actually making a console with better specs instead of relying on stupid gimmicks nobody cares about? "It doesn't matter! People buy nintendo consoles for Nintendo games!"

It's like geez. Do you not know why Nintendo is making so many mistakes right now with the wii u? It's because you guys just keep on saying it's fine WHEN IT'S NOT. What if we just bent over for Microsoft with the drm and used game policies? What if us sony fans didn't say anything about the TERRIBLE ps3 launch? (Lack of third party support, no games, and expensive launch price.) then the ps4 would be the ps3 all over again. As gamers we should actually stand up and say what we want instead of corporations giving us what THEY THINK what we want.

Nintendo has me beyond disappointed. They screwed up with the Wii U. They should have ditched the stupid touchpad and actually made a console that could actually run next gen titles. So not only do we not have third party support for it, we also have to wait until 2014 until the heavy hitters come out. This new mario is a joke. I know it may not seem like it, but I AM a Nintendo fan. I'm just a Nintendo fan that can actually admit that Nintendo is screwing up with this console instead of just acting like it's alright.

Concertoine4704d ago

how about you let the game come out before you completely trash it. I seriously doubt nintendo's going to keep it as simple as 3D land. from the little gameplay we've seen, there's already way more variety than there was in that game. plus the coop looks fun.
3rd party support has always been lacking on nintendo consoles, in fact i think the wii u is getting comparitively decent support. they got two games from platinum, and they already hired the indie armikrog team as a licensed nintendo developer. its clear they're making strides to have a unified, albeit small, team of third and second party support.
the wii u isn't overpriced. it's selling at a loss, in fact. the technology behind the gamepad is expensive, and obviously to you it's not worth it. but to wii u owners who've experienced how intuitive it is, they love it. unless you own a wii u and still dont like it in which case the console clearly isn't for you.
i can understand the complaints, but im glad the wii u is the way it is. that is, its not trying to be a ps4 or xbox one.

Mr_Nuts4704d ago

I got downvoted because Nintendo fanboys are the worst when it comes to this type of stuff. Instead of admitting something they already know they just give us the whole "wait for it to come out" when it wont change anything, the user above is a prime example

Super Mario World looks exactly the same as Super Mario land except with new characters.

Kurylo3d4703d ago (Edited 4703d ago )

u really cannot say this game doesnt play like mario 3d land. Your kidding yourself if u think its different. Sure u got some new suits and a couple of game play additions, but its not the sequel to mario64 that everyone is begging for. Nor is it a sequel to super mario world. I mean honestly i dont buy nintendo consoles, though i miss mario... fondest gaming moments from mario games.

But that being said I WOULD buy this console for one game and one game only. Mario 64 mixed with supermario world. World map, locations, enemies, all recreated in 3d. What an awesome game that would make.

Bring back the cape!.. i mean cmon... a cat suit... dumbasses.

Rusty5154704d ago

Oh please not another galaxy. Don't get me wrong, I really liked galaxy 1 and 2 but let's be honest here, they had nothing on 64 and sunshine. If they do make a single player focused mario game for the wii u, let it be a 64/sunshine sequel or an entirely new sub-franchise.

Concertoine4704d ago

i agree to an extent. the platforming in galaxy was spot-on. the nonlinearity and open world nature of sunshine and 64 was better though.
i think super mario multiverse would suffice :P in which mario jumps into tangential timelines, alternate realities, and abstract universes. imagine a retro universe, a universe in which mario is the villain...
almost too ambitious, maybe i should patent that...

vazurahan4704d ago (Edited 4704d ago )

Multiplayer is fun but

Single player platform game level design

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Multiplayer platform game level design

imXify4704d ago

I don't really disagree but in a cooperative multiplayer platform game level design, there's a possibility of adding more complex puzzles that can be solved by two or more people.

One of the best example I can give to this is the Portal 2 coop mode.

SolidDuck4704d ago

I don't see why u can't have a great very tight single player mario game. But also be able to play 4 player. Sure 4 player will take away a lot of the challange, but it's fun to play 4 player. I don't know why it can't be both.

vazurahan4704d ago

There are objective explanations to that. And you're right the multiplayer is fun but that's just because you have a friend to tag along but not because the multiplayer actually improves the level design. So I'm not against it. I want Galaxy 3 to stay single player and have 3D World for multiplayer.

In Old Super Mario Bros. games you often see a single block platform(Only one character will fit.) thus the level design can be more challenging. Adding multiplayer requires that platforms are long to accommodate more players.

In Old Super Mario Bros. games there are also enemy platforms (Flying turtle). So after stomping and jumping over it, it falls. They can't really do much of that in multiplayer or there won't be any more platform for the other players.

There are a lot more but I don't want to give you a bigger wall of text. I'm not against this at all. I just don't want them to force multiplayer on every Mario game. Making a separate series for it is okay like 3D World. But I don't want them to ruin Galaxy 3 evel design by adding multiplayer.

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U.S. patent examiner rejects Nintendo’s summoning characters patent as obvious: non-final ruling

The rejection is non-final (and even when such rejections are labeled as “final”, the process is far from over, given that there can be, at minimum, an appeal to the Federal Circuit).

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Relientk7752d ago (Edited 52d ago )

Good, as they should! A game mechanic like that shouldn't be locked behind a patent, and Nintendo didn't invent it either.

PRIMORDUS51d ago (Edited 51d ago )

Nintendo wants to keep wasting money on bullshit lawsuits, real smart in this economy. They should put that money aside for other game projects. On the other hand, I don't care if they waste it all either, and they are screwed in the future maybe that will teach them a lesson.

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Nintendo Completes Share Repurchase and Sets Price for Secondary Offering

Nintendo completed its share repurchase and set its secondary offering price at 8,347 yen ahead of March 16 delivery.

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Nintendo Suing U.S. Government Over Tariffs

Nintendo filed a lawsuit in the United States Court of International Trade.

Nintendo of America is suing the United States government over the sweeping tariffs President Donald Trump put in place last year, according to a complaint filed Friday in the U.S. Court of International Trade and obtained by Aftermath.

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Deathdeliverer77d ago

Well dayum lol. Old agent orange pissing off every industry and nation.

0hMyGandhi76d ago

The fact that you have ANY disagrees will forever baffle me. And to the (apparent) MAGA contingent that exists on this website, enjoy your 8-9 dollar gas.

AuraAbjure76d ago (Edited 76d ago )

Yes, they had better be pissed after Trump told them the way they rip off the USA is over.

EveryPlatformGamer77d ago

LOL I read this on gaff, will they refund the money back to the gamers? highly unlikely. Didn't they just raise prices and pass it onto the gamers? Only Nintendo would send out the Ninjas to the US government.

-Foxtrot77d ago

That’s what I was thinking, imagine them winning hypothetically, getting a s**t load of money back which they would have lost if they hadn’t raised their prices and it’s business as normal.

It would just mean people paid more for no reason since they got the money back anyway.

Outside_ofthe_Box76d ago (Edited 76d ago )

A lot of companies partially passed the cost to consumers instead of all of it. They would still have to at least pay that back to gamers, but we know that won't happen. What's also sad is that prices won't come back down after the initial hike caused by tariffs.

People didn't understand the full repercussions of tariffs. That alone should have cost him the presidency if people knew it was a permanent price hike for consumers

Inverno77d ago

The people should sue these companies for having to over pay cause of these tariffs.

Eonjay77d ago

Naw they should sue the government for forcing the tax to begin with. No one reasonably expects these companies to absorb the taxes. Many smaller companies tried and were shut down or faced to increase prices to try to maintain their business. The tariffs effect everyone.

Inverno75d ago

I meant it mostly as a joke cause we all know the costs of these tariffs were passed onto the consumer. But it's seems no matter how vocal we are here in the states our "representatives" don't seem to care enough to represent us. And things are about to get worse.

Killer2020UK76d ago

The companies were doing what the law required then to do, the tariffs however were illegally implemented. Usually it's criminals we punish, you seem to have different ideas 🤷‍♂️

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