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Martinet Stepping Away from Voicing Mario
(www.cnn.com)
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this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2023
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Do they even need to replace him though? There's a 25-year back catalog of recorded voice lines to recycle, and most of those consist of "Let's-a-go" and "Yahoooo!" I think the most complex sentace I've ever heard Mario speak in game is "Thank-a-you so much for playing my game". Combine that with AI voice recreation, and there's literally no reason to ever hire a replacement. Just cut Martinet a big-ass check for perpetual use of his voice, and they're golden.
That sounds awful. I rather they give the work to a new, younger voice actor instead of hogging the role forever with AI
They'd probably prather not pay likeness fees, and there are a LOT of legal considerations Martinet would have to consider as signing the rights away to his own voice brings a lot of considerational challenges.
Think they already have replaced him, listen to the voice carefully in the wonder trailer
I feel like I used to have a Mario card game on my 90's Macintosh? We played go fish in the back of a limo or something... I recall he had pretty complex voice lines in that game.
edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario%27s_Game_Gallery
I'm pretty sure all the edutainment titles predate Charles Martinet as the voice of Mario, and I don't think Nintendo would ever make a game like that these days.
The wiki page literally says Charles Martinet voiced Mario in that game.
The CNN article says Martinet started with Mario Teaches Typing in 1994.