Nintendo Doubles Down On Mario Games After Super Mario Movie
If it feels like Nintendo has put a ton of Mario on the menu lately, there’s a clear explanation for the boom of Italian-American fare—and it’s not that the Feast of San Gennaro is coming up. Not long after its April debut, The Super Mario Bros. Movie became the highest-grossing film of the year until Barbie came along, and it’s still sitting comfortably at the second spot with over $1.3 billion earned worldwide, according to Box Office Mojo. It sure seems like Nintendo anticipated this success, and planned to leverage the financial confirmation of Mario’s popularity in the modern age to make even more money: by throwing a ton of Mario and Mario-related Switch games at us in the next year or so.What You Should Know About Mario Strikers' Big Free UpdatePlus, The Super Mario Bros. Movie intr...