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More evidence has emerged that Nintendo is working on a new Mario game but also that it is, or was, planning a Super Mario Odyssey follow-up.
Was there supposed to be Super Mario Odyssey DLC? (Nintendo)
More evidence has emerged that Nintendo is working on a new Mario game but also that it is, or was, planning a Super Mario Odyssey follow-up.
Although Nintendo often launches a new console with a new big budget Mario game it hasn’t happened enough that it’s always guaranteed to happen. After all, the Switch’s biggest launch title was the cross-gen Zelda: Breath Of The Wild.
Nevertheless, there are long-standing rumours that Nintendo is working on a new Mario and/or Donkey Kong game for the launch of the Switch 2 – which seems especially believable given the team behind Super Mario Odyssey hasn’t made or announced anything for a long while now.
It’s vey unlikely that any substantial details will leak out ahead of an official announcement but one of the most trusted Japanese sources has revealed the codename of both a new game and some kind of new, but possibly abandoned, Super Mario Odyssey sequel or DLC.
Midori is a well respected leaker, specialising in Sega and Atlus games, but seeming to have a wide range of contacts across the Japanese games industry.
The only problem is that a lot of her revelations tend to be very dull codename reveals, where knowing that Persona 6 is codenamed XRD768 is not the most enlightening of information.
However, Nintendo codenames tend to follow a pattern that, while seemingly random at first glance, make it relatively easy to guess what they’re referring to.
Midori previously leaked the codename U-King-O, which builds on previous nomenclature to imply a remaster of Breath Of The Wild. Likewise, there’s a pretty good chance that ‘Banquet’ is a new Mario Party game, as the last one was codenamed ‘Buffet’.
Her latest information is that Nintendo has a project codenamed SPRed, which at first glance could mean anything. Except Nintendo always used the word Red as part of the codename for any of its major new Mario games – but not more minor spin-offs.
Super Mario 3D Land on the 3DS was RedPepper, Super Mario 3D World on the Wii U was RedCarpet, Super Mario Odyssey was RedStar, and Super Mario Bros. Wonder was SecRed.
In these previous examples, you can see the other part of the codename doesn’t seem to mean anything obvious but the basic format of SPRed certainly points towards a big budget new Mario game.
The Odyssey codename is particularly useful to know because Midori also claims that Nintendo was working on something with the codename of SilverStar.
Midori states that she doesn’t know if the project is still ongoing, but the obvious guess is that it was intended to be DLC or perhaps a sequel or spin-off.
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It’s important to note that Nintendo projects are often pliable in terms of scope and purpose. The acclaimed Super Mario Galaxy 2, for example, started of merely as an expansion but eventually transformed into a full sequel.
It’s possible that has happened with SilverStar and that it could now be whatever SPRed is. We may never know for sure, but it’s certainly interesting to know that Odyssey wasn’t necessarily meant to be a one and done.
There’s a good chance that the pandemic interfered with whatever the original plan was, but whether that led to the entire concept being scrapped is impossible to tell at the moment.
It’s unclear if the new Mario game is also a Donkey Kong title (Nintendo/Universal)
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