Super Mario news on the 40th anniversary

Over the weekend Super Mario Bros. turned 40 years old! Super Mario Bros. came out on 13 September 1985. It remains the best selling videogame franchise of all time. The Super Mario games and spin-offs, excluding Switch 2's 2025 Mario Kart World, have sold more than 890 million copies worldwide. 

On the eve of the birthday, on September 12th 2025, Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto made many anticipated announcements. For example, he revealed that the 2007 Super Mario Galaxy and the 2010 sequel Super Mario Galaxy 2 games will launch on the Nintendo Switch system on October 2nd. This is to coincide with the other big news revealed on the day:

Mr Miyamoto also revealed that the main event for the Super Mario Bros. 40th Anniversary will be the release of the sequel to 2023's blockbuster "The Super Mario Bros. movie". It will be released on April 3rd 2026 and is called The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. Chris Pratt will once again voice Mario.

Have you seen any of the Super Mario films? Will you be going to see The Super Mario Galaxy Movie in April 2026?