The Internet Dubs March 31 the day Mario dies

The Internet Dubs March 31 the day Mario dies

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It’s a little over a week until Nintendo – for reasons that are still not declared satisfactory – Super Mario 3D All-Stars, Super Mario Bros. 35, Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros., and the Super Mario Bros. 35th Anniversary merch removed. collection for sale. It’s so bizarre that the internet is trying to rationalize it by deciding that March 31st is actually the day Mario will die. Last year, Nintendo released a number of products to celebrate Mario’s 35th anniversary, with the strange condition that they will not sell them until March 31, 2021. In the case of a platform battle Royale, Super Mario Bros. 35, the game will not even playable after that date, and Super Mario Maker on Wii You will also discontinue sharing the level on the day. Oddly enough, NES ‘re-release, Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & The Blade of Light, will also be removed from sale on March 31 (maybe it’s Mario’s favorite game?).

Despite confusion among fans – who would like the option of being able to buy or play games after the random cut – Nintendo really sticks to this. The company recently formally reminded fans of the removal, and VGC reports that Nintendo’s official store in Tokyo will even move physically copies of Super Mario 3D All-Stars off the shelves after the date.

It’s fair to say that even Nintendo understands the confusion it causes and ends the reminders for its removal by assuring fans that other Mario games like Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury and Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit will continue. will be sold after March 31. is, of course, the possibility that the games in question will be released again in a new, non-commemorative form after March 31, but Nintendo has made no attempt, you know, to inform anyone about it if that is going to be the case.

The closest to an argument behind it all comes from Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser, who told Polygon that it was intended as a ‘celebration’, and (thankfully) made it clear that ‘it is not [a] strategy that we are going to use widely, but we think it is very unique for the actual anniversary. ‘Honestly, it does not feel like it does enough to explain the thinking here, no matter or something after the fact.

With a lack of information, the Nintendo community’s stature came to a single unchanging conclusion: Mario will die on March 31st. sound wild, but it somehow makes more sense than Nintendo just deciding to stop people from buying or playing the stuff they made without explaining it.

The meme has been hanging around for months since the closing of the closing on March 31, but with the start of the last days before the deadline, interest has increased. Google Trends reports that searches for “Mario dies” reached a year-long peak in the US last week, and Twitter and Reddit are seeing the phrase fly around more and more. You can probably expect it to continue to grow on its own until March 31st.

This is a very silly meme, but it does address the bigger issue with Nintendo’s messages here. The company did so little to explain its decisions to its fans that they took matters into their own hands and came up with an answer to the question that Nintendo probably does not like being out there that much. If it’s just taken the time to provide a little more context, it might not be so. eminently clear that Mario is on his way to the big Boo Mansion in the air.

I mean, it’s not like Nintendo does not have a previous one here – it did kill Luigi after all.

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