

1) with three 3D games the size of Mario 64, Sunshine and Galaxy. That and All-Stars was so much easier to remake back in the day because of shared assets that and you cannot compare the scope of remaking three 2D games (Lost Levels hardly counts as that was just a remix of Super Mario Bros.


That and if they completely remade Mario 64 similar to Crash and Spyro it makes the other two games look older and not show an accurate evolution of the series so they'd have to remake them too. Think of this the Crash and Spyro releases did not sell as well as Mario 3D All-Stars and that is just a fact.
