Mario's 31st March Demise Gets Even Worse As Nintendo Pulls 35th-Anniversary Merch From Its Tokyo Store

Hahahaha you guys....

WHAT? This is the first I heard about Nintendo pulling Mario 35th anniversary stuff! ;p

I know everyone likes to moan but at the end of the day Nintendo will have a plan and lord knows they use Mario enough.

@jump Apparently so, 2 articles in half an hour just to remind us.

Oh no!

It's almost as if anniversaries aren't forever! 😱🤯

The real Mario was the friends we've made along the way.

Of course the merchandise stops, it's over...

Oh no! What a shame! I never saw THIS coming

Welp to ebay I go. Come on scalpers...hit me.

I can understand them not producing more merch but why wouldn't they sell what they've already produced? Nintendo logic as usual.

All must be destroyed. No one is allowed to remember this cursed 35th mario anniversary.

Phew...
I have bought Mario 3D All Stars just to secure Mario Sunshine.
But i still thinking Ratchet & Clank PS3 games are way more fun to play.
Glad i have collected ALL Ratchet & Clank PS3 games during year 2020.

Btw, i'm playing FF XIII PS3 right now, have reached Oerba and i see a lot of Cie'th over there and i'm thinking Mario 35th Anniversary will turn into Cie'th after 31 March 2021.

We’ve met with a terrible fate, haven’t we?

Another article to insight complaints and easy clicks.......Nintendolife come on

I'm just sad that Mario's 35th came and went with absolutely no recognition of the best Mario game, Galaxy 2. I'm still holding out hope for the future though...

I can't believe this is actually happening. This is so nasty and greedy. Nintendo should give away all the games and merchandise it has left over at the end of the month. They're going to throw it away rather than let us have it? I haven't been able to buy All Stars, but the trash collectors can have it for free? And they're doing this when everyone is trying to buy the PS5. Where do they think we get all this money? Nintendo doesn't think about its customers at all.

Can't be the only one sick of these articles, Nintendo life are really going downhill nothing but click bait articles and a lot of moaning

Does Ryan even like Nintendo all his articles appear to be moaning about something.

On April 1st the world will explode, and only Nintendo knows they can save the earth by killing off Mario.

I mean... that's kind of how an anniversary works. They don't last forever.

Well, if Mario himself will also be gone from the 31st on, then that's the perfect opening for releasing another "Mario is missing" game starring Luigi instead...

April 1st - All Nintendo social accounts change to the image from the Sephiroth trailer that looks like Mario is dead. Part of the Ridley trailer would also fit but won't happen because that would mean Nintendo acknowledges Metroid's existence.

Mario never existed.

Mario is just an illusion by all our collective imaginations.

Mario was never real.

Only L is real.

Can't wait until April so you can all find something new to write about!

Anniversaries end, this isn't news.

Thank you so much for playing my game

There's gonna be adults of tomorrow that grow up not realising that "merch", Is short for, "merchandise". I guarantee that'll happen.

thats what I really do not get about the japanese mentality sometimes....their move has absolutely no sense and its anticonsumer ...is it really such problem to sell this game after April 1? as if Square Enix stopped selling Tomb Raider Anniversary after the 10th anniversary had ended...jut nonsense

@Kimyonaakuma Yeah they do end. Can you think of any other anniversary game that was deleted after one ended? Yeah, me neither.

Other news waters wet. Like come on stop having 2-4 articles a day about the end of March it's getting like groundhogs day levels of repetition

@Clyde_Radcliffe There is a difference between selling promoting stuff with a 35th Anniversary label printed on it and a game called 3D All-Stars which has absolutely no mention of the 35th Anniversary on the box or even on the official Nintendo website. There is absolutely no reason to not sell this game after March 31th. It is a big Nintendo fail.

well it was limited time merch. Thats marketing tricks alright. Not that we could purchase it in Europe anyway

@dimi I am from Slovakia and I can purchase it from my local stores

@BlackenedHalo It is so anti-consumer. Nintendo doesn't care about you or me. They just want to make as much money as they can from the people who have it, and then they stick a thumb in the eye of the rest of us. Giving people six months to come up with money sounds like loan-sharking.

Anyone else reckon Miyamoto's retiring, next week?

@infernogott It's not ideal but it's not worth this many articles.

It was a pretty basic collection of games which weren't hard to find/play beforehand, and then we all bought it again. It's not like life will be changing on April 1st.

This is all marketing. Imo Nintendo making the Mario collection a limited time only is a good thing because more people will buy it and Nintendo will get money of it. If it wasn’t limited, people most likely wouldn’t care about it and are like “ I can buy this at any time I want” and thus there will be low sales for Nintendo

Limited time merch = cool.
Limited time digital software = not cool.

So after 35 years Mario finally retires so his son can resume... oh, wait...

@Kimyonaakuma I don't really care about the collection. I'm talking about Mario 35, the online game. A fun switch online exclusive game is deleted just because an anniversary is ending.

I felt somewhat 'forced' to buy 3D All-Stars digitally a couple of days ago. That way I can let my Mum use the physical copy I bought on release.

I'm not going to get my pitchfork and flame-stick and storm HQ. but this is not right Nintendo.

This moves from Nintendo will make some people to go and get this games from other sources. Who will go and buy a copy with 10x normal price from scalpers? And then Nintendo will come and tell, you should not play this game if they don’t want to give you access to their game anymore.

@Minecraft_Master

You sound foolish. Loan sharking?

If you couldn't get 3D All-Stars within that generous timeframe, maybe you have more issues to handle than videogames.

i hate the limited time thing for the software, but i don't think it's unreasonable that things branded with 35th anniversary would only be around for a short time

They're gonna make the Switch from Mario to Zelda. Promoting a 35th Anniversary Symphony of the Goddesses Digital Concert Tour with limited capacity, and an online shop for merchandise like a Wind Waker Conductor's Baton, and Concert DVDs, Blu-Rays, and Music CDs. I mean, you all want to hear this blaring from your sound bars and surround sound systems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ex1NHXb640 Don'tcha?

@WiltonRoots,

Hang on, I forgot what they were trying to remind me of.

@Damo,

True, you can't only publish positive stuff all the time, but how many of these articles do we actually need?, I am pretty sure most of us know Nintendo is pulling the Mario 35th stuff at the end of the month.

@Damo,

I guess so, let you off then.

Can you buy that mug and book if you live in Europe?

@Damo It might be new information, and it's definitely new clickbait, but it does not qualify as news.

I find this quite shocking.

I thought Nintendo would continue selling 35th anniversary merchandise well beyond the 35th anniversary, perhaps even into 2030.

I'm blaming cancel culture.

Looking forward to April 1st when Italian man plumber announces they are now Spanish Opera singer Maria and Nintendo has to retcon 35 years of videogame history.

I mean that's pretty much the only explanation at this point. 🤷‍♂️

I'm waiting for Nintendo to announce they sold the Mario IP to EA or Bethesda. That would be a true doomsday.

@JuiceMan_V I mean yeah, who'd have thought it - buying games costs money...lol

Just buy it all now ...

@brunojenso Everyone was "forced" to buy it. They gave us six months to buy it, but it was really only like one month because most of us had holiday expenses, and the PS5 and Covid. And now we're in March and we have to find the money by the 31st. That is telling people to buy something rather than offering.

I could have told you that

here we go again

The scalpers will have been stocking up to keep it going until the end of the year as long as you're willing to pay extra.

Such a shame. I understand the appeal of making things “limited” physically, but digital removal is heinous.

Where's Mario Galaxy 2 😠

(Forgive me. I like mad emotions too much 🤪 )

people may be tired of the mar 31st articles but im all for shaming this cheap tactic lol. boooo limited releases on digital games is dumb

I think I'm done with NintendoLife, this is like a twitter feed I wouldn't follow. Good luck, with PureXbox... It was fun for a while.
Hasta

@Clyde_Radcliffe
+1
Underrated comment

It was only a matter of time, since this was just a one in a lifetime event °-° of course they won't keep this offer forever -3- Just like every timed event stuff °u°

Mario will get replaced by Bowser

What are you going to write about tomorrow? Is Nintendo going to take Scalper sales down on March 31 too? Good grief.

SCALPERS

WHAT IS YOUR PROFESSION

(Hopefully some of you saw 300 lol)

Mario: "Bowser ships on fire off the shoulder of Mushroom Kingdom. I watched fire flowers glitter in the dark near the Cosmic Cove. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."

Turns out it will kick off a year of "Mario is missing", launching a new game and if you beat the game you win tickets to Nintendo World where all the Mario merch is sold exclusively at the souvenir shop there.

Everyone is upset with Nintendo about this, but wait until they drop a Zelda 35th Direct and no one will care anymore (until that ends)

@Minecraft_Master I mean, they can't just give it away, either. Not everyone wants a PS5, as well. This is how business works. If every company had that logic, everything would be free.

@Richnj calcel culture didn't do anything. There was no #cancelnintendo. Everyone here wants nintendo to thrive, just without limited time releases.

@Rhaoulos I wouldn't totally mind bethesda. They're not AS bad as ea.
After all, they own the rights to Doom.

In other news, someone threw away the "I Am 5" badge I got for my 5th birthday and all of my birthday cake that year got eaten and the balloons I had with the number 5 on them burst...

@Minecraft_Master Yeah I know what you mean, they booted my door in at 6am and frogmarched me down to Argos...I was still in my undercrackers with sleep in my eyes, hair all over the place. I complied but my neighbour put up a fight and ended up a bloody mess, hair and teeth all over the hallway. He doesn't even own a Switch, but he was forced into getting Mario 3D All Stars too. We all were.

@Minecraft_Master "I haven't been able to buy All Stars"
Why not? It was available for SIX MONTHs and they produced so many of it that you can get it for around 30€ second hand because it has no materialistic value... What have you done the last half year? And how is Nintendo to blame for that?

"Everyone was "forced" to buy it."
<points gun at your head> BUY THE GODDAMN GAME ALREADY, GOD F-ING DAMMIT!!! -.-#

"Giving people six months to come up with money sounds like loan-sharking."
You weren't able to put enough money aside for a 50€ game within six months? So... are you at elementary school or just trolling? :3

This is the most prepared April fools jokes ever

I've actually written extensively about how Japan has a culture that doesn't expect things to last forever and values the moment, while in the US everything needs to be permanent.

Play a "JRP for Japan" title, like something in the Atelier series and see what happens at the end. Things just ... end. People go back to school, move away, start new jobs, start new families ... it's just over. The "experience" of the game doesn't continue, people had their adventure and are going back to normal life. Even Riza, which got a direct sequel, sees the first game break the party up completely and send everyone to the next stage of their life only to have to shoe horn a reunite into the second game when it turned out it sold extremely well in the US and they decided not to move the PC to an NPC role like they normally do because that didn't test well with the US audience.

US games (and stories) never end. The badass just goes on to his next adventure, everyone lives "happily ever after", the group and bounds they form are now the only thing that matters in life to anyone. The part of their lives you experienced is now the new normal.

I'm not saying one is objectively better then the other outlook, but it's why we have disconnects like this. In Japan, limited time is a HUGE value add. Limited time flavours of everything from ramen to KitKat, limited time blind boxes, limited time anime runs, you name it. The fact that you can only get it for a short time just isn't seen as a negative. You can just go back to normal until the next limited time thing.

The US is more fuelled by FOMO, so the idea that something might END is just unacceptable.

Next up: “BREAKING NEWS: All Mario games pulled from digital retailers and store shelves!”

Doesn't make sense to me why Nintendo is doing this. I hope the fans who want a copy can get a copy, feel sorry for those who might end up missing out for one reason or another.

@HeadPirate I cant speak on cultures as a whole, but parts of your point stick regardless: "Gets worse" in the title, yet the first sentence mentions the "set of special Mario 35th-anniversary products". The world "special" here means nothing if they just keep pushing products past their due date (ps his 35th anniversary was last september). So it's not getting worse. They're just doing what they said they'd do

Mario was a victim to the thanos snap.

@Minecraft_Master they are not throwing away copies of the game, thery are just stopping the production. The copies will still be available in the stores, until they run out of copies.
Not sure why you are not able to get your copy though, six months should be more than enough to buy the game, especially since it seems that there is no shortage in stock.

@johnvboy No idea. Anyway, same time tomorrow?

Literally who gives a F##k! Mario is Sh#t, as are all the games he features in. I think it's great that they are taking this rubbish away, i wish they'd do it completely and erase Mario's very existence.

@WiltonRoots,

You can set your watch by it.

@YANDMAN,

I suppose this site has trolled us enough, might as well give someone else a turn.

Nintendo Life doing what they can to ride that Mario 35th end day to the edge of the world aren't they.

Man, how come I never saw any news covering the events when Nintendo removed all Christmas ornaments out of Hallmark after the holidays. Tragic.

@Paraka "Man, how come I never saw any news covering the events when Nintendo removed all Christmas ornaments out of Hallmark after the holidays."

The Christmas ornaments have been removed? But it's only three months after Christmas. What about all the people who haven't gotten rid of their Christmas trees yet? Very Grinchlike. (Or are we not allowed to mention that book anymore? Please don't cancel me.)

@Minecraft_Master So, let me see if I have this straight. You had the money to buy a PS5 at launch, but you couldn't find $60 over the course of six months for a game that you wanted on the system you already owned.

And somehow this is Nintendo's fault, and they should have been more considerate of you as a loyal consumer (who, to reiterate, bought a PS5 at launch, but didn't have the money to buy a $60 game from Nintendo).

You HAVE to be trolling. Please tell me you're trolling.

The game is currently on sale for $49.99 at Best Buy. In my area, anyway.

@JasmineDragon I quote the title of the Richard Pryor movie: Omit the Logic.

@Minecraft_Master Can I ask why you weren't able to get the game? And I'm not trying to be condescending or snarky. Just genuinely curious

Edit: I just saw post #62 and I'm convinced you're not serious. Or at least I hope you aren't because reaching, in this case, would be an understatement

@johnvboy WHAT YOU MEEN

@YANDMAN,

You little trickster, we know what you are up to, you are a secret Switch lover and are just trying to hide it.

@Burning_Spear,

The game is on sale at your local Best buy?, that sounds very anti -consumer to me, Nintendo should hang their heads in shame.

Nintendo is so weird and out of touch with fans.

@johnvboy Of course it's anti-consumer. With eight days left the stores should have been instructed to give away all remaining copies. Nintendo is only going to burn them anyway. Confession: I actually thought about purchasing an extra copy, but common sense says no. They've printed at least 9 million of these, so it will never be a collector's item. Which is why I don't get all the people complaining about the limited-edition aspect of it. Xenoblade 2 is scarce because the initial run was never repeated, but no one is screaming anti-consumer about that. If Nintendo had said nothing, printed 9 million of these and then moved on, no one would have complained. But putting a clock on it angered people. I can promise that, as long as used-game stores are around, this game will be available at a reasonable price.

@Burning_Spear,

Could not agree with you more.

@Burning_Spear Burning Spear you are right, they should give everything away. They got all the money from the people who have it to spend and should let the rest of us have what is left. How anti-consumer is it to say, Ha ha, we have all these games and are going to trash them so no one can play them? And how would I get Xenoblade 2? Was there a time limit on that, too? I didn't know.

I'm glad I'm not married to any of you people so upset over a flippin anniversary ending.

Looks like Netflix already dropped the The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 Show ahead of the 31st date :-/