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Nintendo threw basketball, hockey, dodgeball, and volleyball into one Wii package and trusted the Mario brand to hold the chaos together.
Mario Sports Mix is a sampler built around quick-switch arcade sports and broad party appeal, but it still sneaks in some real skill through item timing, character strengths, and stage weirdness. It feels like Nintendo testing just how many sports a Mario-branded box could plausibly sell at once.
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Square Enix helping make a Mario sports omnibus that includes dodgeball remains exactly the sort of weirdly specific collaboration only this franchise could normalize.
Why it matters
It matters because it proves Mario sports had become expansive enough to support compilation-style products instead of one-discipline bets.
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