 All right everyone, we have some interesting news here. It looks like a new Mario Party is in the works for Nintendo Switch. Now, we shouldn't be surprised. Super Mario Party currently sits at over 12 million in sales and this is before it's updated for the holidays, maybe it hits 13, I have no idea. It's already the best selling Mario Party game of all time. Now, the issue obviously with Super Mario Party is really two-fold. One, it has online, but the online's really lackluster. You can only play select mini games. We can't even play an actual Mario Party game online. Why not? It's literally like a board game. It makes no sense when we can do Uno and Monopoly and all these other games online on Switch. Why can't we do Nintendo's own version of that? Be it to me, hopefully that is something addressed in the next Mario Party game. It's one of my biggest hopes for the game. The other thing is that there really isn't a lot of maps. I think there's like four of them, I believe. And we used to get like eight, nine different maps. Only four, really strange. Didn't really get any DLC for it. So, hey, maybe we didn't get DLC because they're making another one. But before I get into that, I gotta remind you we are giving away a PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X or a Nintendo Switch to enter. Head down to the description or to the pinned comment. It will contain all the information that you need in order to enter. We will be announcing the winner at the end of this month and somehow, miraculously, if we hit 50,000 subscribers, 50,000, sorry, we already passed that, right? 70,000 subscribers, we will give away two systems instead of one. Pretty nuts. By the way, it is open worldwide. However, I am buying the systems in the United States. So if you do win a system internationally, you will be responsible for international shipping. If you win it in the United States, I will just pay for shipping for you. All right, folks, let's get into the rest of this video. I really liked the gameplay in Super Mario Party. I also thought that minigames are the best they've had in a long time. Definitely better than that Mario Party 100 or whatever, where they have the 100 greatest minigames all put together. Crazy fun, but eh, I want new. And they gave us a lot of new with Super Mario Party. Now, Super Mario Party was brought to us by ND Cube. That is the developer behind it. They have done other Mario Party games as well, such as Mario Party 10. And they've worked on some other Nintendo titles as well. So the reason we're talking about another Mario Party isn't because, well, duh, it sold 12 million. Of course, we're getting another one. It's because we now have evidence that they're hiring for another one. So ND Cube 2021 recruitment brochures are now out in the public eye. Basically, for some odd reason, ND Cube uses brochures to hire people, whatever. That's fine. You gotta get the information out somehow, especially in a pandemic world. So a brochure is out there. And in the brochure, there are a ton of mentions of Mario Party suggesting that they are hiring specifically to make more Mario Party goodness. This is great. I don't even call this a rumor. This is happening. There is a new Mario Party in the works for Switch. And it's being made by ND Cube. No surprise. And they're hiring for it. No surprise. So, hey, look, if you enjoy more Mario Party, be excited. But what we really need to talk about here is what do they need to do to make Mario Party better? Now, there's been debates on this in the past, such as the fact that the cubes, right, the dice that you hit aren't technically random in Mario Party games. It would be good to make it actually be random. But good luck with that. I wanna see kind of the best of the best from Mario Party. See, Super Mario Party was great. And I wanna see not just more and better mini games, I wanna see an expanded board. I wanna see some really, really massive boards and some really, really tiny boards. So you can have quick play with tiny boards or you can have long play with these massive ones that have a lot of unique elements to it. We've seen a lot of unique boards over time. My favorites coming from Mario Party 5. Personally, I know we all have our own favorite Mario Party. That is mine. But Super Mario Party brought me back into the fray and made me enjoy Mario Party again until I tried to play online with friends and realized it is a very canned experience. When it comes to the online, clearly we want the full Mario Party experience online. Playing against four, you know, three other friends or whatever online or more. Maybe they let us have eight players. I don't know. That could be interesting. Could get wild. Let's do it. Let's get eight player. If we can have eight player smash, let's do eight player online. Eight player online Super Mario Party. And I don't want it to just be mini game focused. Now there was a time with a certain other multiplayer game that I didn't mind if it was mini game focused online. If they would have went that route. That being Pokemon Colosseum. I would not have minded if there was an online mode specifically just for mini games. But for Mario Party, we need the full experience, baby. And I hope that we could even have it if you play the larger boards online where you can save it and come back to it later. I don't know. That might be asking a little much for Nintendo to allow that to happen. But in 2021, is it? Other games allow you to save matches and come back to it. That's been a thing on PC for ages. I mean, there's matches and civilization you would never even finish or Supreme Commander that you would never even finish if you couldn't save the match and then come back to it later. Cause there's matches that could take days to complete, weeks even. Think about it like cricket. You don't start up a cricket match planning to have it start and end in the same day. So same could be true for Mario Party. And I would like them to implement something that allows you to have that sort of save functionality to come back to later. Of course, this is the same Nintendo that is gonna make you use an app to voice chat and the app doesn't even support that many games to voice chat with. So another thing Nintendo needs to address. Again, Nintendo's not perfect, but I'm excited for what I think is honestly a realistic chance we get another Mario Party this year. Now remember, the turnaround time of Mario Party games has never been super long, right? We've never had to wait five, six years for another Mario Party game. At least we haven't for some time. That I can remember. I'm sure someone's gonna go out on the comments to tell me actually the distance between this one or if you just consider console only or handheld only, I'm like, I get it, okay? I'm probably wrong. I'm saying it as a general statement. We've had a lot of Mario Party games, okay? A lot of them. So I am really excited about the prospect of another and one coming this year or early in 2022. Cause obviously we're all focused on 2021. We just got here, but there's gonna be games beyond 2021 for Switch. So that's okay if Super Mario Party isn't this year. And especially if they put a focus on, say, Zelda, Breath of the Wild 2, put a focus on Metroid. Not that I think we're getting Metroid Prime 4 this year. Maybe, maybe that's why we haven't seen it cause they're gonna show us and give it to us in like two months, but we're in the head of myself here. All I know is I'm really excited for Super Mario Party 2 or whatever they end up calling this. They'll probably have a unique name for it. I think they're done with the numbers. They've been with the numbers for so long that Super Mario Party I think is like the future where they're just gonna come up with unique names for each title. And I'm okay with that. I would like to maybe even see a general theme to the game. Well, to be cool if like there were multiple worlds with like four or five stages in it, four or five different, you know, maps in it that are themed to it like a volcano world and like an ocean world or something like that with different maps themed around it. That would be interesting to me as well. But again, that's asking for a lot of content. Now I'm starting to get into, I don't know, Mario Kart territory for content, but maybe we should expect that. Maybe we should have our expectations that high. Now that Super Mario Party came back and showed us that Mario Party can be good again, we need to take it to that next level. All right, folks, that's my thoughts. Anyways, on Super Mario Party, the Mario Party experience we're gonna see in the future again, NDQ 2021, Recruiter of Russia is out there. They are literally hiring for Mario Party right now. Not even really a rumor. This is happening. Shout out to Nintendo Memories out on Twitter for bringing this to our attention. And I will catch each and every one of you lovely people in the next video.