Nintendo is Leaving Money on the Table by Ignoring One Mario Sports Franchise

If there’s one thing that Nintendo has never been afraid to do with the Super Mario franchise, it’s experiment. When the portly plumber isn’t jumping through the Mushroom Kingdom, he can be found playing life-size board games with his friends, tearing up the racetrack, or practicing medicine. Mario has proven to be a true renaissance man in his 30-plus years as Nintendo’s mascot, but there’s one aspect of the Super Mario franchise that’s received an inconsistent amount of attention over the last few years. That being his efforts as a professional athlete in the various Mario sports spin-off games.