Why Super Mario Galaxy 2 isn't coming to 3DS

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Nintendo won't port Super Mario Galaxy 2 to the 3DS because Mario looks like a "speck" on the smaller handheld screen.The Japanese game maker explored the possibility as it was creating Super Mario 3D Land, which launched last month to critical and commercial acclaim - but quickly found the superb 2010 Wii platformer was inappropriate for the 3DS."When we started developing [Super Mario 3D Land], we displayed Super Mario Galaxy 2 on a small TV monitor and found that Mario looked like a speck and that the game was difficult to play," Super Mario 3D Land director Koichi Hayashida told IGN (http://uk.ds.ign.com/articles/121/1213642p1.html) (via VG247 (http://www.vg247.com/2011/12/01/super-mario-galaxy-2-wont-be-coming-to-3ds-thanks-to-speck-graphics))"This led us to look into the camera and terrain types that would be conducive to playing on a portable screen with a relatively large Mario. If we were making a console game, from the very start, we wouldn't have been thinking about any of those things, and I think the game would have probably been a lot different."Eurogamer's Super Mario 3D Land review (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-11-10-super-mario-3d-land-review) returned a 9/10. It is the fastest-selling portable Mario game ever in the US.

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