30 May 2008
Ferry

New Super Mario Bros. 2 might be a 3D DS platformer

New Super Mario Bros. 2, when will it arrive on DS? Before Super Mario 64 DS arrived in time for the Nintendo DS launch in November 2004, New Super Mario Bros. development was already started. Two years later — the month after the May 2006 release of New Super Mario Bros. — many interviews were given by its lead designer Takashi Tezuka.

As we reported back then Mr. Tezuka, who has worked on every major Mario platformer with creator Shigeru Miyamoto, wasn’t able to comment about a New Super Mario Bros. 2, except to say that he’d love to make any sequel into a 3D Mario on DS as he looked back on Super Mario 64.

A week later the developer dropped another hint of a New Super Mario Bros. sequel in a survey hosted on the Nintendo of America website that read: “Assuming a reasonable price, how likely are you to purchase a sequel to New Super Mario Bros. or ask for it as a gift?” [On a scale from 1 to 7 it could be indicated between "no purchase", "neutral opinion" and "will definitely purchase a sequel".]

Obviously sequels to Mario games are no surprise as long as they sell well. Luckily the game has many fans, by the end of 2007 New Super Mario Bros. sold over 13 million copies worldwide! By comparison worldwide sales of other fan favorites are: Super Mario Bros. 3 = 18 million, Super Mario Land 2 = 11 million, Super Mario World = 20 million, and Super Mario 64 nearly 12 million. Sounds pretty favorable for the chances of a sequel, especially since the “Super Mario” development team at Nintendo must’ve been busy on something the past two years.

Outside of the question if the sequel should be in 2D or 3D, what about new gameplay modes? Did you know that early versions of New Super Mario Bros. had a 2-player co-op mode during the main game? While the 2-player battle and 4-player mini-game modes remained in the final version, the co-op mode was removed. That sounds like a fun new feature for a sequel. What would you like to see added in New Super Mario Bros. 2?

18 January 2009 16:30
Cemal Yianniz Marasli

I thought that it would also be cool if we can save princess peach and daisy and maybe warios and waluigi’s princess if they end up having one. =P

23 January 2009 10:12
tom keller

it should have a time attack mode that lets you speed through the levels and allow to post best times via wifi

28 January 2009 12:10
Will

New Super Mario Bros. 2 would be amazing! Something they should add though is to get to play as Peach or Toad when you beat the game. Also, Yoshi should be added so you can ride and fly on his back. Last, brand new power-ups(while still using the classics, of course!).

31 January 2009 07:18
Trey

I want a new mario sidescroller…New Super Mario Bros was a great game but I think it tried a little too hard to just be an enhanced version of the original NES game for nostalgia purposes. We need a true sequel to games like Super Mario World, a continuation of the amazing Mario sidescrollers from back in the day. Nintendo obviously has to use their consoles to focus on the 3D Mario games now, but the DS would be perfect to start the Mario sidescroller games up again…

A New Super Mario Bros as a 3D game like Super Mario 64 DS would disappoint me a lot…we can already play 3D Mario games on consoles. Making NSMB2 a 3D game would just defeat the purpose.

31 January 2009 10:49
Taylor

I think a sequel to New Super Mario Bros. would be amazing. But the whole 3D part is so stupid. Just keep it the way it was, it was so much fun. I think the game could be a lot better with more characters. I would be very disappointed if Yoshi was made a playable character. It’s so weird playing as him in the Super Mario 64 DS game because his controls are so different. Also, I think more levels and secret passages need to be made. Just my thoughts!

11 February 2009 14:16
Eu

Eu acho ke deviam fazer um novo jogo do Mario de preferencia um parecido com o New Super Mario mas kom outros mundos mais niveis diferentes. Tipo falo por mim e por outras pessoas que gostam dos jogos do Mario. Outra coisa ke podiam fzr era todos os jogos do mario ate hj feitos mete refaze los para a nds por exemplo o Supermario 3, supermario the lost levels etc. isto e que era um sucesso garantido!!!

Pensem nisto

7 March 2009 19:26
Shaun Conley

Maybe in world 8 when you see bowser he might have peach on another little stand on top and he might also have bowser jr with him again

10 March 2009 06:40
Emma

I love the game and I’m really excited about a sequel but I hate it when they take an excellent game and ruin it by trying to improve it. I would like the format to be just as it is with different levels. I hate it when they change things too much. It really puts me off and there are many sequels I haven’t bought because they changed the format. I don’t want 3D, I want it just as it is.

10 March 2009 19:36
Sam

I can’t wait for the new game, but I hope they include more levels and a two-player co-op version. Also, I hope they include the special zone like in Super Mario World Two, Yoshi’s Island.

13 March 2009 10:37
loveNINNY

NEW super mario bros 3………

Super mario bros 2 SUCKED……( so did World )

C’mon Ninny …. make a new version of super mario bros 3……..

ps. mario64 3D = boring

favourite level ever : S.M.B.3 == world 7..pipe maze