Nintendo on New Mainline Mario Game for Switch 2: 'Stay Tuned' - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 21 April 2025 / 3,609 Views
Nintendo of America President Doug Bowser appears to have teased a new mainline Mario game is coming to the Nintendo Switch 2 in the future.
Bowser was asked about the lack of a new mainline Mario game during its Switch 2 Direct in an interview with CNN and he replied, "Stay tuned."
He continued, "You know, we have a long, long catalog, and a long list of (intellectual property) that I’m sure will make its way to the platform."
Nintendo did announce a new 3D Donkey Kong game, Donkey Kong Bananza, which is set to launch for the Switc 2 on July 17. It isn't known which team at Nintendo is developing the game, but some have speculated it is the Super Mario Odyssey team.
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April 2026 along with the new movie
Nintendo usually releases a big title at the end of March (end of their fiscal year). So I expect March '26 for the new 3D Mario game. I think they rely on Mario Kart and Pokémon this holiday, which are big enough titles.
(Not typically the end of March: TotK & TTYD Remake both dropped in mid-May, and BotW, Animal Crossing, and KirbyATFL are the only major March releases from the past decade.) That said, however, I could definitely see 3D Mario dropping alongside Mario Movie 2. Interestingly enough, this would be the first time a mainline 3D Mario game gets dropped in Spring…so that would be very interesting.
Mario and Zelda are just about the only Nintendo IPs that also have concepts, production and such constantly happening. Pokémon is probably the third one with how many games the IP gets in terms of RPGs and other titles.
Of course, a Super Mario game is in development.
For the longest time, I was thinking 3D Mario would be this holiday, but now I feel it might be Holiday 2026, potentially with an announcement this September (40th anniversary). They don't need to release it right around the movie, but to announce it beforehand and have trailers play before the movie would be huge (they should have done that with Wonder, but I guess they wanted to be sure that the movie series would be a hit first).
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