17th April 2005, 6:12 PM
Well, Sunshine wasn't the new Mario game. It was a sequel to Mario 64. A new Mario means a new engine and usually new hardware. The Mario engine usually sets the standard of the engine that EAD will use for just about every game they produce. Luigi's Mansion, SMS, WW, Pikmin etc are all the same engine. An even better contrast is Jet Force Gemini which is the DKR engine. Pretty cool way of saving dev time; Mario games are always extremely varied in its presentation and mechanics because they want to try out every idea possible with the hardware as it's going to be used for a myriad of games.