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Nintendo surprised by the success of the New Super Mario Bros. series

by rawmeatcowboy
28 June 2013
GN Version 4.0
A portion of a Multiplayer interview with Takashi Tezuka.

M: When you were developing the first New Super Mario Bros, you expected it to have all the immense success it actually had? In a certain way, it has given new life to 2D platform, a genre forgotten by the industry for almost ten years.

TT: Sincerely we didn't expect a similar success: we thought it would have been a product that would have fascineted only the fans of the old Mario games, that would have reminded them the classics, and their videogaming past. Instead, we were surprised by the enormous amount of new gamers who liked it, and with it they become familiar with action games, thanks to the accessibility of 2D platforms. We are obviously very proud of this result.

Full interview here