This is the first Nintendo home console without even a glimpse at a Mario platformer, and I find that bizarre

I put the "home console" distinction there, because the GBA technically never had a Mario platformer – only ports of the NES and SNES titles.

But yeah, while they don't always launch with Mario (post N64, only the DS and Wii U did, and the former was a port/remake), we always get at least a glimpse of it.

We had Sunshine impressions before the GameCube launched

Galaxy was unveiled pretty much alongside the Wii

We knew a "Super Mario 3DS" was coming

And of course, Odyssey was in the Switch 1 presentation.

While it's true that we didn't hear about 3D World until 2013, when the Wii U launched, Galaxy 2 was merely 2 years old, so that was very reasonable. And the console launched with New SMB U anyway.

Here we are though. A new console, a couple of months away. Almost eight years since Odyssey (four since Bowser's Fury, a smaller game from, iirc, a different team), and… nothing. No teasers, no hints, no wink-winks… Not even a "New Super Mario Bros. Switch 2 Edition" filler thing. DK is seemingly made by the Odyssey team, but surely they haven't been working on that for the past 8 years.

Anyway, I couldn't help but notice how strange this is.