The Wii U is a bit of a weird thing. It sold like crap but it had several games that sold extremely well considering the low amount of units out there. Super Mario 3D World is one of those examples, with 5.86 million copies sold, which is impressive considering only 13 million Wii U units were even sold.

At this point the Switch has basically every noteworthy Wii U game ported to it and outselling their Wii U counterparts easily (~8 million Mario Kart 8 copies on Wii U compared to over 33 million on the Switch, for example), so it was only a matter of time before 3D World made its way to the platform. That way people might actually be able to play this game, since so few even had the console to do so in the first place.

What I wasn’t expecting was that it would have actual noteworthy new content. Mario Kart had the DLC and a battle mode no one cared about, Tropical Freeze had Funky Mode, Pikmin 3 had the DLC and the Piklopedia, Hyrule Warriors had the DLC, Pokken had characters that were previously only in the arcade version… It was basically nothing major, or new. Mario 3D World though? It gets a whole new GAME. That’s pretty meaningful.

So let’s go and see if this is a package worth getting!