“Super Mario Galaxy 3 Is Difficult to Imagine” Says Nintendo

Looks like our favorite Italian plumber won’t be adventuring to space again anytime soon. An interview with Super Mario Galaxy 2 director Koichi Hayashida revealed that he believes yet another sequel would be nearly impossible to pull off without making it seem repetitive. With that, Hayashida said the next Mario game for Wii U will be a unique and new experience. So, it seems that Super Mario Galaxy 3 will be a no-go, but we get to look forward to yet another new release on the horizon. Here’s the entire statement regarding the situation:

When we worked on Galaxy 1 we came up with a mountain of ideas. Of course, the ideas that made it in to the final product were the ones at the very top. Those ideas that were most compelling or could be implemented most easily and effectively. The other ideas were a little bit rougher. Ideas we weren’t positive that’d be as effective, or might have been much more difficult to include.”

“When you think about trying to make a game like Galaxy 2 from that large group of ideas that we had already decided were on the rough side, that becomes a very difficult project. The only way that we got through the development of Mario Galaxy 2 was by coming up with entirely new ideas. I think of that as a very challenging project when I look back on it.”

“From that perspective, to say we’d make another game using the ideas left over from Galaxy 2, it’s very difficult for me to imagine. I feel like we really did research the field very well for possible ideas and we used everything that was reasonably easy to implement.

Source: MyNintendoNews