There's no way this is happening.
- With a July release, we would have heard about it before now.
- If it's supposed to be a port of the N64 Paper Mario, they wouldn't have it on Virtual Console for 1/3 the price.
- If it's supposed to be a new game, the DS already has its Mario RPG.
-Lizard Dude
I have to say I agree with LD on all his points. There's no way a game this big would have been able to be kept secret so close to release. If it is indeed just a "port", who would pay full price except hardcore Mario fans, unless it was simply held within the Paper Mario 64 world, but a brand new adventure? (i.e. same characters, etc).
Finally, I think I remember seeing something where Nintendo stated that Paper Mario is a console rpg series, and Mario & Luigi are meant to be the handheld rpg series.
But, who knows what could happen, eh?