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A minute’s silence. A toast to the departed. Let’s remember the greatest of us: Mario.<\/p>\n

I wasn’t sure they’d go through with it, but Nintendo really did kill Mario this week. Super Mario 3D All-Stars for Nintendo Switch is no longer for sale digitally, and no new physical stock will be distributed. We knew this was coming. Nintendo had signalled as much<\/a>. But why is it happening?<\/p>\n

That’s the question we ask on this week’s Eurogamer News Cast. Join news editor Tom Phillips, reporter Emma Kent and me as we attempt to make sense of Nintendo’s controversial decision in the video below.<\/p>\n

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A minute’s silence. A toast to the departed. Let’s remember the greatest of us: Mario. I wasn’t sure they’d go through with it, but Nintendo really did kill Mario this week. Super Mario 3D All-Stars for Nintendo Switch is no longer for sale digitally, and no new physical stock will be distributed. We knew this was coming. Nintendo had signalled as much. But why is it happening? That’s the question we ask on this week’s Eurogamer News Cast. Join news editor Tom Phillips, reporter Emma Kent and me as we attempt to make sense of Nintendo’s controversial decision in the video below. Read more Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":178230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurogamer"],"yoast_head":"\nWhy did Nintendo kill Mario? 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