“Time for a Super Mario Sunshine Remaster then?” “I thought you were announcing another sunshine game,” and, “I saw the words ‘Mario’ and ‘Sunshine’ where’s it at?” are a few examples from the Twitter post’s replies. Nintendo fans want to believe that the company could be teasing either a remaster of the classic Nintendo 64Mariogame or a continuation of it that also serves as a sequel toSuper Mario Odyssey. There’s obviously no substantial reason to believe this, but it’s fun to speculate.
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The tweet does go out of its way to use language bound to stir up its fans.“Odyssey” references the most recently releasedMariogame. “Sunshine” references the Nintendo 64 classic. And then there’s the image. It appears to be a new render of Mario using either the visual quality ofSuper Mario Odysseyor better. He’s even wearing a summer outfit previously unseen. It’s no surprise that fans reading the tweet saw more than just a friendly message.
It can likely be said that Nintendo’s social media folk meant for the post to be wholly innocent. MentioningOdysseyandSunshinewas almost certainly done with intent, but was probably just done for fun. The image could also have been done for fun, though it seems like a rather impressively done image for just a tweet. It may have even been repurposed from some other more important use.
Perhaps the more important question is whether it’s even possible that Nintendo could be hinting at a newMariogame. Clearly, the fans want one. And clearly, Nintendo has every intent to make more main seriesMariogames. The will is there, but development of a main seriesMariogame typically take 3-4 years. WithSuper Mario Odysseyreleasing in 2017, a 2020-2021 sequel is absolutely possible, if not likely. Would Nintendo want to make aSuper Mario Sunshinefollow-up, though? Fans of the Nintendo 64 game may be waiting a while yet.
