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Background_Guy posted...

Sunshine was revealed at Spaceworld 2001 five years and two months after 64's release so unless Nintendo drops news within the next few weeks, this has to be the longest they've gone between 3D Mario platformers without even a hint of news..

I'm extremely curious what the development time is more than anything at this point. I was under the impression that when you have a series like the main Mario series (aka, 3D Mario's at this point), you start working on the next game pretty much immediately after you are done with the last game. Now, by work, I'm sure this means "brainstorming" which I'm not going to even act like I know how long that takes before you actually start the process of coding. I have to imagine some form of work has been going on with 3D Mario since at least 2018, whatever that may be.

It made sense with how long it took from SMW (being the last major 2D Mario before 3D even if technically Yoshi's Island is the "sequel" to it) to SM64 to SMS and even to SMG as each subsequent game represented a large leap in technology. Ever since the HD era, though, that leap is seeing diminishing returns. 3D World to Odyssey took less than 4 years (and might have been even sooner if Odyssey wasn't meant to be a year-one title for the Switch).