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Nintendo Registers "Super Mario 4"

what if it's SMB4 for the U.S. and something different in japan because marketing comes first

*awaits long explanation of how customers will be confused and enraged because this would break canon*
 
level design by retro and HD 2D art by good-feel


lol that won't happen and now you're all going to cry about it now that I've given you the idea

Fuck you for this, EmCeeGramr

It's gonna have that plastic ugly as shit NSMB art style and we're just gonna have to deal with it
 
Seems like it's gotta be a launch title for Wii U with SM3DL only being recently released and Wii U hasn't gotten any serious reveals about first party launch software this close to the date. Sorta weird that they've dropped the "Bros." part of the name, but SM4 rolls off of the tongue and keyboard better. Whatever it is, I hope that it's closer in spirit to SMB3, though it would be neat to mix in a return to SMB2USA with SMB3 as well as new fun stuff with the controller, like finding and freezing Boos in the room around you and then returning to the main display for normal gameplay.
 
Yes.

YES!

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This was registred in the US, which would make the "4" more appropriate. I wonder if this will be called Super Mario 5 in Japan.
 
okay okay, i can let people bitch about whether smb3 or smw is the better game (myself i prefer world), but anyone in their right fucking minds that would describe smw as "middling" is just being an attention whore.
 
Whoa, so the first true-blue Super Mario since the NES? With that title, two things come immediately to mind:

1) Console game
2) True sequel to SM3 (2D)
 
God damn.


This and link the past news and I m in full nostalgia mode.
Snes was the best, the best.

Bring it nintendo, my wallet is wet for your mushroom
 
here's hoping that naming it 4 means that they finally recognize the superiority of 3 over the middling World

irrelevant, since they should've stopped making mario games and started only making yoshi games after yoshi's island (*not* a mario game) was completely superior to every mario game ever
 
I feel like the time to name a game Super Mario 4 has already passed. New Super Mario Bros Wii is basically super mario 4 at this point. The DS game didn't quite have the scale and replayability to deserve the title, but the Wii game is basically just as big and fully featured as any previous SMB game. The level design may not be as high quality still, but it's still everything you'd expect to see in a SMB game.
 
Domain Name.......... supermario4.com
Creation Date........ 2007-03-22
Registration Date.... 2012-04-03
Expiry Date.......... 2013-03-22
Pay attention, people.

Bet you this is just a trademark/domain protection move. Transferred in from someone else who had registered it.
 
level design by retro and HD 2D art by good-feel


lol that won't happen and now you're all going to cry about it now that I've given you the idea

just to build on this pipe dream of disappointment, the HD sprites would be based on Kotabe's art:

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lmao jk it'll be nsmb wii 3d models again
 
I feel like the time to name a game Super Mario 4 has already passed. New Super Mario Bros Wii is basically super mario 4 at this point. The DS game didn't quite have the scale and replayability to deserve the title, but the Wii game is basically just as big and fully featured as any previous SMB game. The level design may not be as high quality still, but it's still everything you'd expect to see in a SMB game.

super mario 4 will have music that's not performed on a $15 dumpster casio keyboard using the "clown being strangled" sample set, so it'll be superior to new super mario bros wii.
 
This popping up like it did (not hidden) makes me believe that this will be revealed at Nintendo's Investor Conference/Nintendo Direct (?)..... which means it is probably for the 3DS.
 
here's hoping that naming it 4 means that they finally recognize the superiority of 3 over the middling World

Super Mario 3 is a great game and has gotten much love in the Mario series lately. I'd like to see a true sequel to Super Mario World (my favorite Mario game).
 
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