Rumor: Nintendo Is Sitting On Four Upcoming Mario Games

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Nintendo is reportedly sitting on four upcoming Mario games, that they have yet to officially reveal. Based on what these rumored titles are, they are probably still for the Nintendo Switch, and not its upcoming successor.

As reported by GameRant, the titles are a remaster of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, a new Mario and Sonic at the Olympics title, a new Mario sports title, and a Mario 2D platformer.

This could mark the first time Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door has been rereleased since it was originally launched in 2004 on the Nintendo GameCube. Developed by Intelligent Systems, it is the last game in the Paper Mario series to be an RPG. It’s also widely considered to be the best game in the Paper Mario series, so it’s a very suitable game for a remaster, even at this late point in the Switch’s life cycle.

The Mario and Sonic at the Olympics titles are obviously planned around the real life Olympics themselves. The Summer Olympics are scheduled in Paris on July 26 to August 11, 2024, so it’s likely that this game is coming this holiday for that Olympics. While non canon, the prospect of Mario and Sonic characters competing in Olympic sports has been popular enough to make this a recurring series.

The upcoming Mario sports game is rumored to be a baseball game. If true, it will also be an odd return for Nintendo to a long dormant series. Mario has only had two baseball games thus far: Mario Superstar Baseball on the Gamecube in 2005, and Mario Super Sluggers on the Wii in 2008.

Notably, Mario’s baseball games did not make their way to Nintendo’s portable systems, the same way that Mario Golf or even Mario Tennis did. Between this and Nintendo’s woes with the Wii U, this long gap between releases is well