We cover some pretty big stuff on this site, but very little is this epochal. It is my sad duty to report that Mario is no longer a plumber.
In an official profile of Mario on Nintendo's Japanese site (as spotted and translated by Kotaku), the hero is described as:
"All around sporty, whether it’s tennis or baseball, soccer or car racing, [Mario] does everything cool. As a matter of fact, he also seems to have worked as a plumber a long time ago..."
Was Mario made redundant? Or did royalties from all those games finally allow him to retire and become a man of leisure? The upcoming Super Mario Odyssey is a game about travel after all - maybe the twist is that he's looking for a place to settle down in his dotage, like old people with Florida.
His career has been an odd one. In the Donkey Kong days, Shigeru Miyamoto described Mario's original form, Jumpman, as a carpenter - he only became a plumber when Mario Bros. was released. He has since been a doctor, a cement factory worker, and a soldier that is trying to bomb people in what definitely seems like Vietnam.
Joe Skrebels is IGN's UK News Editor, and he has been shaken to his core. Follow him on Twitter.
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