Mario Strikers: Battle League Could Point to the Return of Mario Baseball

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The first Nintendo Direct of 2022 brought some surprise announcements, including a new Mario Strikers game. Mario Strikers: Battle League will be the first installment in the series in over a decade and looks like a great reintroduction of the franchise. Between new skills, modes, and gameplay it already has a lot to offer fans, and Mario Strikers: Battle League’s arrival on the Nintendo Switch will make it a fun time pretty much anywhere. Another thing that Mario Strikers: Battle League might bring with it though is the possibility of a new Mario Baseball game.

While Mario Baseball wasn’t the Mario sports title featured in the February Nintendo Direct, the announcement of Mario Strikers: Battle League could point to another installment in that series as well. A lot of Nintendo franchises tend to have their release cycles fall into patterns, and series like Mario Strikers, Mario Golf, Mario Tennis, and Mario Baseball have all fit a certain pattern in the past. Previous installments in each of these series have all come out in similar spans of time that stretch out over a few years or so, meaning that aMario Baseball game would make sense.

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All theMario Tennis games and Mario Golf titles have had considerably frequent releases with Mario Strikers and Mario Baseball games tucked between their different titles. For a while, this guaranteed fun Mario-themed sports games, and in the mid to late-2000s, there were ample options even without the inclusion of theMario and Sonic at the Olympic Games series. Recently, the frequency at which these games have been released has slowed considerably, as Mario Strikers and Mario Baseball have both gone over a decade