Super Mario Maker 2 Announced for Switch This Summer With a New Theme

Super Mario Maker is back, this time on Switch!

News by Mike Williams, Reviews Editor

Updated on 29 April 2019

As the opening salvo of today's Nintendo Direct, Nintendo showed offer a trailer that looked like a port of Super Mario Maker for Switch. It was surprising to see a title card pop up calling the game Super Mario Maker 2. Yes, we've been waiting for Mario Maker on Switch for so long because Nintendo is working on a sequel.

The trailer showed off the new interface, given the move from the dual-screen Wii U and 3DS to the single-screen Switch. The trailer also showed off the new Super Mario 3D World theme, featuring the Cat Mario power-up. The company promised new features coming to Super Mario Maker 2, though it didn't detail what those feature were yet.

Super Mario Maker 2 is coming to Nintendo Switch some time in June 2019.

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Mike Williams

Reviews Editor

M.H. Williams is new to the journalism game, but he's been a gamer since the NES first graced American shores. Third-person action-adventure games are his personal poison: Uncharted, Infamous, and Assassin's Creed just to name a few. If you see him around a convention, he's not hard to spot: Black guy, glasses, and a tie.

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