Why Nintendo does what Ninten-does

Some people are up in arms about Super Mario 3D World from Nintendo but they may be ignoring the fact that they aren’t Nintendo’s primary demographic.

Super Mario 3D + Bowser’s Fury has a lot of people excited in many definitions of the word. Less than a month away, people are sounded off about the new title. One of the things I’ve been seeing is people complaining about the price. Or complaining that Nintendo isn’t releasing a new title. I wanted to talk about this today.

Before I do, I want you guys to understand I’m a Mario fan. But I’m a broke Mario fan. So I love Mario games but I also hate spending money so I can see both sides of this argument.

Personally, for me, I think paying $40 bucks for a re-release of Mario 3D World and $20 for Bowser’s Fury as it’s not a full-length title. They still put a lot of work into it and I like it when people are paid for their work.

But the thing I hear from the people against it, more often than not, are things like, “I already owned this for the Wii U. Just give us something new.”

If you look at internet comments it might look like people are tired of the remasters but, as I mentioned in my article about children’s games, children don’t have the voice online that older people do so we don’t really see the forest from the trees.

I have two kids, both are distance learning. Because of this mixed with being a stay-at-home dad, I get to hear their classes, and oh my damn. If you give these first graders a moment to have a break where they can all leave their mics on and talk, they are talking about one thing and one thing only: Super Mario 3D World.

These kids are talking about this game with the excitement and hope that a cult might give to the aliens coming to take them to their next life. Even during attendance, when people are supposed to say “here,” I caught four different kids, instead, saying “It’s-a me!”

And that is where Nintendo is focused. They definitely make their games more adult-friendly now but Super Mario 3D World, if you have genuinely played it, is quite possibly the easiest Mario game since Mario Teaches Typing. It’s good, and the multiplayer was fun, but once you get that catsuit you may as well just flatten the entire stage and run for the exit.