Charles Martinet has been the original voice of Mario in Nintendo games for a long time, as far back as Super Mario 64. Charles is now moving into the brand new role of Mario Ambassador. With this transition, he will be stepping back from recording character voices for our games, but he'll continue to travel the world sharing the joy of Mario and interacting with you all!

It has been an honour working with Charles to help bring Mario to life for so many years and we want to thank and celebrate him. Please keep an eye out for a special video message from Shigeru Miyamoto and Charles himself, which we will post at a future date

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[–] Tapioca@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It's sad. But hopefully, a chance for Nintendo take advantage of this to modernise things a bit. Wonder looks to have a bit more VO in it, and people have been speculating it's a new actor.

tbh he has to retire sometime, and considering the reaction to the movie casting this seems a sensible way to do it.