Every Cancelled Super Mario Game - Ranked

10. Super Mario Bros. Mii

It's fair to say that the Wii U never really hit the heights that Nintendo had set themselves up for.

A lack of a proper target audience, fatigue from all the Wii hysteria that had come before, a seriously underpowered engine and a lack of third party support all helped bring the console down, but the games shoved out by Nintendo for the console were hardly going to help it either.

One of the biggest culprits behind this was the New Super Mario Bros. franchise, which basically summed the laziness plaguing Nintendo at that point. New Super Mario Bros. Mii was first unveiled at E3 in 2011 and was essentially the successor to New Super Mario Bros. Wii, as well as the showcase piece for the Wii U's controller capabilities.

The game, which never made it off the E3 stage, would have allowed players to take control of their Miis and navigate them through all of the usual desert, underground, water and volcano levels that make up a New Super Mario Bros. game. Instead of continuing that one original idea, Nintendo pulled the Mii concept and ended up releasing New Super Mario Bros. U in 2012.