However, after we started actually making the game, it took about one and a half years to complete Super Mario Sunshine.'įor perspective, Super Mario 64 took around three years and Mario Galaxy took two-and-a-half. 'If we add the development period for this engine to the overall development time, the development of Super Mario Sunshine took a relatively long time. In a 2002 interview, Shigeru Miyamoto, one of the game's producers, opened up about Sunshine's rather short development cycle.
