Super Mario 3D World - Wii U

[QualityChimp]

Oops, I really should have followed the naming structure first applied by Nintendo a quarter of a century ago as opposed to being confused by the absolute avalanche of Mario games they've churned out in the last few years with similar names.

I thought New Super Mario Bros U was just the same game as New Super Mario Bros and Super Mario 3D World was just a port of Super Mario World from 3DS to WiiU.

[Pikate]

It makes perfect sense if you follow the history of the naming.

I do think QualityChimp has a point, I suspect no two people here will give the same account of the various series..

As I understand it "New Super Mario Bros." is supposed to be a direct successor to SMB, SMB 2 and SMB3 on NES. Yet Super Mario World is technically (officially in Japan) 'SMB4" while Yoshi's Island, officially AKA "Super Mario World 2", is never referred to as SMB5 and is the start of the Yoshi sideline i.e. Yoshi's Story, the direct sequel coming to 3DS and eventually Yoshi's Yarn on Wii U (or whatever that ends up being called, which is itself a retooled Kirby game).

What's more confusing is NSMB games are numbered on handheld but given "Wii or Wii U" designations on home consoles. Then 3D/third-person games were given titles such as 64, Sunshine, Galaxy never a mention of 3D until on a console capable of stereoscopic 3D and now they're taking that 3D name and mixing it with the early 90s naming convention of Land on handheld, World on home console.

Since Miyamoto said recently we may see another Super Mario Galaxy game it would stand that at the moment handheld and consoles share titles and potentially active are four different sub-franchises:

New Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario 3D Land/World
Super Mario Galaxy
Yoshi's XXXX

And that's before you get onto Mario Kart/Tennis/Golf/Party/Strikers even Super Smash Bros could be dragged into the naming confusion.... :/

[fishbowlhead]

I don't know whether that cleared things up to just confused the situation even more Pikate :/

[Kit]

I'll make it clearer for everyone.

New Super Mario Bros is utter soulless ****.

Super Mario 3D World has a bit of the Mario 64 magic to it.

We're still a long way off a proper Mario Galaxy successor though.

[Neon Ignition]

Depending on how well 3D World ends up doing long haul I may end up hoping Galaxy 3 doesn't come to WiiU. It'd undoubtedly be late to the system and on current rate of sales of hardware would struggle to sell impressively, in which case I'd rather it was a launch game for the N7 console or whatever name they choose than put it on WiiU as a late game and think its lower sales are due to series popularity wanes. Like the Vita, it's a shame, but I think they missed their window to make the platform sell well now.

[dataDave]

If 'Super Mario 3D World' was called 'Super Mario 3D Land HD' I would understand the confusion.

Did people have the same problem differentiating SML and SMW?

[Party boy]

There's only two franchises, 'Super Mario' are the proper games, and 'New Super Mario' are the accessible games acting as a starting point for people new to the Mario platformers. And within the Super Mario franchise you have direct sequels, like Galaxy 2, and indirect sequels, like 3D Land, much like with Zelda. Or Black Ops 2 with COD being a direct sequel in a franchise that also has indirect sequels..

[fuse]

Have been playing a lot of this in 2, and as of last night, 3 player, and it's truly a wonderful game. So much charm and innovation throughout the whole damn thing. All of the news about its poor sales performance is heartbreaking.

[gIzzE]

I do think QualityChimp has a point, I suspect no two people here will give the same account of the various series..

As I understand it "New Super Mario Bros." is supposed to be a direct successor to SMB, SMB 2 and SMB3 on NES. Yet Super Mario World is technically (officially in Japan) 'SMB4" while Yoshi's Island, officially AKA "Super Mario World 2", is never referred to as SMB5 and is the start of the Yoshi sideline i.e. Yoshi's Story, the direct sequel coming to 3DS and eventually Yoshi's Yarn on Wii U (or whatever that ends up being called, which is itself a retooled Kirby game).

What's more confusing is NSMB games are numbered on handheld but given "Wii or Wii U" designations on home consoles. Then 3D/third-person games were given titles such as 64, Sunshine, Galaxy never a mention of 3D until on a console capable of stereoscopic 3D and now they're taking that 3D name and mixing it with the early 90s naming convention of Land on handheld, World on home console.

Since Miyamoto said recently we may see another Super Mario Galaxy game it would stand that at the moment handheld and consoles share titles and potentially active are four different sub-franchises:

New Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario 3D Land/World
Super Mario Galaxy
Yoshi's XXXX

And that's before you get onto Mario Kart/Tennis/Golf/Party/Strikers even Super Smash Bros could be dragged into the naming confusion.... :/

Jesus!! that's now crystal!!