Seeing as it's a new week. Here's my prediction. Nintendo are going to give every switch owner a free Mario themed fridge. Also, super Mario party now has an online mode.
So I just realized that this is probably partially a way for them to test out people playing online in Super Mario Party before they announce a sequel that will inevitably have far more people play online.
Otherwise this is the most bizarre update ever. In a good way.
Bizarre yet fascinating. It would be so off the wall to provide a substantial update( first one in years from what I recall)and announce a new game just a couple months later. Somethings going on..
I think it's less about Mario Party and more about the online imo.
It's been a couple of years of NSO revenue being better than expected so they want to make the most of it. They have got new servers and want to emphasis their online play so a game like Mario Party which is such obvious one get's it plugged in to convert non-NSO subscribers who play it, same with Splatoon 3 coming out of no where and is their big online title.
At least it's better than when Ninty tried Federation Force and Tri Star Heroes to lead their online play.
The Super Mario Party online update makes the possibility of a sequel being announced much less likely, at least for a couple or few years. And here some folks assumed a sequel would coming soon.
Switch Physical Collection - 1,540 games (as of January 28th, 2026)
Switch 2 Physical Collection - 4 games (as of December 8th, 2025)
Nintendo has seemingly gone out of their way to use anything EXCEPT a better online service to sell their online service, so I have my doubts here. It should be, but its nearly the last thing I expect from Nintendo at this point.
Nintendo has seemingly gone out of their way to use anything EXCEPT a better online service to sell their online service, so I have my doubts here. It should be, but its nearly the last thing I expect from Nintendo at this point.
It’s like they let the interns design, run and market it.
@kkslider5552000 true but they have just gone to the effort of getting better servers so they are improving it already. Besides Ninty doing something they are not expected to do sounds like something I would expect Ninty to do.
I might be wrong, I might be right but I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a renewed focus with online multiplayer with games like Metroid Prime 4 having a multiplayer option mandated by Ninty.
This update comes in the midst of a pandemic, so that people can play with friends and family while social distancing. This makes it more likely that more people will buy Switches / copies of Super Mario Party. Why do people find this update strange?
It's bizarre in the sense that it took two and a half years to implement extended online options that should've been available at the launch of the game. It's been such a stretch of time that folks just assume Nintendo were saving these new online options for the inevitable sequel.
Switch Physical Collection - 1,540 games (as of January 28th, 2026)
Switch 2 Physical Collection - 4 games (as of December 8th, 2025)
The Mario Party developer team aren't the most proflic, with them just doing Clubhouse (I know it's a budget release) and released less than a year ago I can't see them having a new game ready this year just yet.
@ok1 I'm sure Clubhouse games is the AAA of shovelware but the implications of me calling it shovelware was that it's a relativity easy game to develop rather than it's the typical quality of what you would expect it to be.
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