My theory:
The Mario Sunshine movie was never supposed to be released on the internet anyway. Nintendo specifically asked people not to record it. Of course, IGN among others went ahead and recorded the video, so that was a rather futile and naïve gesture on Nintendo's part.
Anyway, these most recent shots are ones that Nintendo intended to release at this time anyway on a public which hadn't seen the Spaceworld movie. And since they want to surprise everybody at E3, they show a really early build of the game.
Why they would continue on this course after knowing that the Spaceworld video was released is beyond me, but it makes a certain amount of sense.
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