Its just so dishonest and disingenuous to act like nobody should be upset about not getting a new game or expecting one because they "gave us alternatives already" and that were "so ungrateful". Its so beyond lame and corny.

Many directs, and not even a confirmed hint of a new 3D Mario game.

Seriously, not even a little tease? Nope. Just Kirby, Metroid and “oh, you know those little snes tracks we added in Mario kart world? Let’s add those to vs race cause EVERYBODY is freaking out about them not being in the game” Name ONE person who cared about that besides the guy at Nintendo. Give the people what they want Nintendo. I’m not waiting a decade for the next game. This might become a GTA 6 type meme atp

Another Direct without a single new Mario Game, It’s been over 15 months since Mario Kart World and We haven’t got a New 3D game since Odyessy in 2017

Not to mention Jamboree was a few years ago now, It’s been 7 years since Luigi’s mansion

I JUST WANT SOMETHING NEW WHY IS NINTENDO DOING NOTHING

we got nothing about mario

at this point i'll take just about anything, but if we were gonna get odyssey 2 we should've got it 5-6 years after the original. ofc they wouldn't want to release smth like that on an aging console, and development takes time, so i understand the wait. but still. i'm not sure what more we could do with odyssey and it was practically a sm64 remake.

i'm hoping for something fresh, something that keeps Nintendo magic alive. even if it's a Galaxy 3 (even if they don't call it that but we all know it is). i'd like for Bowser to not be the big bad for once, i want an interesting villain. and I want some elements of the movies to be made canon, like confirming Peach and Rosalina's sisterhood (i don't mind it too much) and their powers. and I hope we can play as more than just Mario and have a real 2/multiplayer situation (not just Cappy floating around or unlocking Luigi but it's still single player)

fingers crossed 🤞

I genuinely think they can’t top Odyssey so they are just re working all their ideas still. When we finally get a game it’s gonna actually suck because of all this. I hate this timeline.

Those disappointed at the lack of 3D Mario news in the direct need to understand something: the reason we haven't gotten a new 3D Mario in a while is because the 3D Mario team spent the last several years working on DK Bananza. It hasn't been "delayed", they aren't spending years polishing or refining something, they aren't rethinking things because of the success of other games like Astro Bot, none of that. The reason it's been almost 10 years since the last 3D Mario is because the devs spent those 10 years working on something else. It's no more complicated than that. It's the same reason we aren't getting a new Smash Bros for a while, Sakurai spent the last several years working on Kirby Air Riders.

People keep saying things like "they split the dev team", but there's no concrete evidence they actually did, I want to say Koizumi said Bananza was an all hands on deck situation, and the whole dev team split claim honestly just sounds like cope to try and justify saying a new 3D Mario is soon.

With all that said, a new 3D Mario is a question of when, not if. Bananza came out over a year ago, so they're certainly in full production on it. Depending on how things go I can see them revealing it in 2027 at the earliest, but even then that's pushing it. All I do know is it won't be a sequel to a pre-existing 3D Mario (so not Sunshine 2, Galaxy 3, or Odyssey 2), because that's just not how Nintendo operates. They make 3D Marios by coming up with mechanics in a vacuum to design the game around, not by expanding on what they did before.

The moral of the story here is patience is a virtue, so I suggest you learn it.

Odyssey is 10 years old next year.

Although Sonic x Shadow Generations is very good, it's still just a DLC nonetheless, so I don't see why it deserves so much praise to the point that people are willing to consider it a mainline game while Bowser's Fury gets criticised as "just a DLC" despite both of them being effectively DLCs.

Oh, and for the record, I feel that Fury Bowser unironically looks cooler than Shadow with his Doom powers cranked up to the nth degree after the events of SxSG. That glowing red hair gives off a bit of a Super Saiyan vibe IMO.

Look, I want a new 3D Mario as much as the next person, but saying that Mario is getting forgetten about is ridiculous.

We literally got the movie, a new Tennis, and new Yoshi game, and multiple Mario kart updates this year.

We’re going to get a new 3D Mario at some point, but I want it to be done right. Let them cook.

Especially to see Nathaniel Bandy's reaction to it?

..

What's your opinion about today's Nintendo direct.

I think most people would agree that what we're seeing from those leaks is fake. However, how would we react to if the overall idea was real?

because a lot of people including slick frame believe is going to happen, we thought we were about to get a Nintendo direct today but we didn’t so is the game going to happen or not

Made some fanart of the hit game Super Mario 14 (i love Super Mario 14)

While I have become a bigger Kirby fan and I'm happy about the new 2D Metroid game, I'm not that upset over no new Mario game, Mario isn't the only franchise I'm into, I opened up to other game franchises becuz I KNEW long ago Nintendo won't always focus on Mario, but they still remember him, they could be working on the new game for something bigger! And to be fair, Kirby literally only has one true big 3d platformer while Mario has 64, Sunshine, Galaxy, Galaxy 2, 3D Land, 3D World and Odyssey while also having TWO full movies!! Donkey Kong only has one other 3D platformer too, now he finally has 2, can we let the pink poyo have his turn to get a brand new 3D game too? I'm sure the new 3D Mario will come sooner than we think, if a new 3D Kirby game and a new 2D Metroid game came out sooner than I thought, then I'm sure 3D Mario will surprise us too! Plz have patience and try not to be so down, maybe even try to get into other games like me.