Insider reports claim that New Super Mario Bros. U will be coming to the Switch

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Though the Wii U wasn't the most successful console to exist, there were still some notable games that released on the platform, such as Mario Kart 8, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, and Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, all of which received Switch versions. And according to some insider sources, another port of a Wii U title might be headed to the Nintendo Switch once more. Publication Comic Book started the "leak", by claiming their sources, who had previously leaked the existence of Mario & Rabbids: Kingdom Battle, knew of the existence of a port of New Super Mario Bros. U. Supposedly, this hypothetical version of the game will come packed in with New Super Luigi U as well, and there would be new content included. Usually, when such claims are made, Eurogamer and Kotaku will step in, but neither have provided further information at this time. Liam Robertson, the one who made the report, has been responsible for mildly credible rumors in the past, though he's had some incorrect ones as well, and it's been confirmed that he does indeed have an insider source working at Nintendo of Europe.

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Why not just make a new Mario game that's enjoyable? New Super Mario Bro was just meh and meh. It wasn't really a bad Mario game, it was just soulless.

Because there's a limit on how many times you can make someone run from left to right through a series of obstacles.
Also only a few million ever got to play this.

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Another worthless port for first time players only, what about us who owned the WiiU? Think we want to buy the same crap over and over again.
Mk8 releasing twice in a row was bad enough, now this along with all the other worthless ports.

Killing Rom sites/gaming history, releasing the same games over and over again and wanting you to pay for online for their old, small library of games?
Screw Nintendo

its not like there aren't dozens of games not on the wiiu.
 

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Because there's a limit on how many times you can make someone run from left to right through a series of obstacles.
Also only a few million ever got to play this.
The thing is, it's not that the games aren't fun, it's that the "New" series just was soulless from the start. They felt like games Nintendo had to make just to have a 2D Mario platformer on the system and nothing more. Yet on the same systems you can find Mario games that have so much life, despite technically being a respin of another Mario game. The lack of care in the New games is just painfully obviously when playing them, especially when you compare them to the other Mario games.
 
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So, in short,

we got tricked by Nintendo to buy the Nintendo Switch because we hated the Wii U, so they're going to port over a bunch of Wii U games while also at the same time terminating rom sites so everyone will go ahead and pay for Switch Online so we can play these games?

In other words: We're buying a portable Wii U with roms with it.

Off-topic, I also want to friendly remind you that the Wii (U) version of Super Mario Bros is just a rom FOUND ON A ROM-WEBSITE.
A Wii-modder extracted the rom and found out the rom used the exact same headers as roms found on the web.
 

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it literaly the same as any nsmb game, they can make a new one with very little effort really.

It sounds like you don't have direct experience of how much effort is required.

Its one of those games that hasn't got anything unique, and a new entry is far better.

Or maybe you'd hate it more.
 
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The thing is, it's not that the games aren't fun, it's that the "New" series just was soulless from the start. They felt like games Nintendo had to make just to have a 2D Mario platformer on the system and nothing more. Yet on the same systems you can find Mario games that have so much life, despite technically being a respin of another Mario game. The lack of care in the New games is just painfully obviously when playing them, especially when you compare them to the other Mario games.

i dont know in what universe you played the new series, but over here, everyone was pretty happy about them
 
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i dont know in what universe you played the new series, but over here, everyone was pretty happy about them
A universe where apparently my post has more likes than the OP and I feel like that says a lot.
 

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It sounds like you don't have direct experience of how much effort is required.



Or maybe you'd hate it more.
you can literaly make a new nsmb game on mario maker so yeah they got the engine maker so no its not that hard to make a nsmb game...
 

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A universe where apparently my post has more likes than the OP and I feel like that says a lot.
If it means anything, I totally agree with you. All the "New" games felt very lifeless and kinda bland. None of them were memorable either. I mean, if you ranked all the Mario games, not one of the "New" ones would even make the top 10.

For me, Super Mario World is still the benchmark for 2D Mario games, with Mario Bros 3 a close second.
 
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I wonder if the lack of a stylus is why we haven't seen Mario Maker get brought over yet. Or do a lot of level creators prefer button controls?
When the switch first came out I said Nintendo should have kept the dual system+handheld setup of the wiiu. Having a handheld keyboard for scribblenauts is much better than using the dials to type words. Also super mario maker without a gamepad and stylus is never going to happen.
I wish they would come out with something allowing us to use a second switch to connect to a docked switch to imitate the wiiu setup.
 

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If it means anything, I totally agree with you. All the "New" games felt very lifeless and kinda bland. None of them were memorable either. I mean, if you ranked all the Mario games, not one of the "New" ones would even make the top 10.

For me, Super Mario World is still the benchmark for 2D Mario games, with Mario Bros 3 a close second.
final boss battle of NSMB wii is very memorable for me, probably my favorite final boss fight on all 2d mario games imo.

 

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i'll never get the hate for the NSMB series, but NSMBU wasnt the most interesting of the series, if it wasnt because of the amount of content i would consider it the worst of the bunch, then again NSMB 2 exists, fuck that game.
 

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this is a decent game. I do like it. in fact, I've been through it enough times that I have all star coin locations memorized. however, I'm not sure if I'll buy this again. I bought dkc tropical freeze, because I absolutely love dkc but do I love this? I bought all of my games on the wii u digitally, so I was unable to sell them back once piracy was possible. I'm a bit reluctant with all these switch ports. :-/
 

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