Soapbox features allow our writers to express their own opinions on hot topics, opinions that are not necessarily the voice of the site. In this piece, Kate argues that Mario’s Doomsday might not be as bad an event as you think …
Let’s start with a count of everything that happens after March 31, 2021:
In short, it will not be a fantastic day for Mario fans, despite reaching the end of a year of celebrations of the mustache plumber’s 35th birthday. But instead of seeing it as an end, I’m deciding to see it as a beginning: the opportunity for someone else to take center stage.
Being a Mario fan is pretty easy, especially compared to being, for example, a Metroid fan, an F-Zero fan, or a Zelda fan who doesn’t like ports. Mario has long been Nintendo’s golden child, receiving lavish birthday parties, a theme park and almost all the glory, and while he deserves that rank, he is, after all, the most pet. former and official Nintendo. it can be a little tiring for people who don’t love it so well.
And anyone who has read the biblical story of Cain and Abel, or Joseph and his technicolor dream (or who has just seen the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical) knows what happens when a child gets all the attention at the expense of others: is murdered and / or sold to strangers.
Now, that won’t happen to Mario, mostly because this is a little hard for a family business, but honestly, the March 31 stops may also allow other games to get some attention. I won’t argue that it’s not a bit anti-consumer to literally take games out of our hands, but there’s a difference between “Limited time only!” i “We decided to delete it because it screws you up, that’s why.” Nintendo failed in its messaging, more than anything, making “limited time” just seem like one thing forever. That’s on Nintendo, really, and it’s far behind, but now it can’t get it back.
The main theme of a one year anniversary is that it is only one year. It must have an end, and that end will disappoint people. Presumably, the servers of Super Mario Bros. 35 were only set for the year; after all, these things cost and require a lot of time. But it is possible that these servers will be released from something else, maybe something for Zelda’s 35th, which starts in July (but we don’t expect).
People expect a lot from Nintendo, and while I don’t mind the multimillion-dollar company, it’ll be fine, I’m sure. do being, at times, a sympathy for Nintendo trying to live up to expectations. He gave people a “free” game (a Nintendo Switch Online account is still needed, of course) as a celebration and people complained that it wasn’t free forever. They re – released three classic Mario games for a fraction of the original price of each (a a lot and people weren’t happy that it was only on sale for a year. Completing Super Mario Maker’s online services makes sense for a nearly six-year-old game on a console that didn’t sell well. The mistake here is to make all this happen the same day. This is not a fantastic look.
I know it’s silly to have hopes, but I like to think Nintendo has a plan. I don’t think it’s as bad as all this March 31st has made it seem, though I think it seems a little unfriendly. I can imagine that it seemed like an appropriate ending for a year that was about Mario, and that it caught the attention and the press for the games, too. But it’s not time for Mario he died did you give the microphone to anyone else? I hope Nintendo’s “plan” starting April 1 involves showing at least one fraction of that same love for their sloppy games.
It’s okay to be disappointed about March 31st. It’s even okay to be a little upset about it. But everything finally dies and when one thing dies, it leaves room for something else to take its place, and doesn’t that sound exciting?