User blog comment:Bentendo/Nintendo goes RPG crazy!/@comment-117653-20100130181706

I wouldn't worry about a lack of Paper Mario. It is currently Intelligent Systems' most successful franchise and each new entry in the series has sold more than the last - Paper Mario sold under a million, Paper Mario 2 sold well over 1 million, and Super Paper Mario has sold well over 2 million (heck, I'd bet it's approaching 3 million by now). There's even a team at Intelligent Systems dedicated solely to creating Paper Mario games, and the director of the series has said multiple times that he has ideas for the next entry in the series.

The only question is, should it be a standard RPG like The Thousand-Year Door or more of a platformer/RPG like Super Paper Mario. This is something I've thought about for quite some time and I can't decide which of the two styles I like better. I personally thought the story in The Thousand-Year Door was more appealing, but Super Paper Mario was just so fantastically new (but some of the new characters were kind of meh, especially the Pixls minus the main one). I would BET that Nintendo would convince IS to make it a platformer though, because 1. it did so well and fared pretty good with the critics and 2. they have a whole bunch of standard RPGs coming out for both the Wii (Xenoblade, The Last Story) and Nintendo DS (Golden Sun DS, new Pokémon generation, HeartGold/SoulSilver).