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Mario Super Sluggers on deck for Wii
Previously revealed as "Super Mario Stadium Baseball" last October, and now apparently dubbed, Mario Super Sluggers, the Wii sequel to Mario Superstar Baseball has been confirmed for US release, likely later this year. Nintendo briefly demonstrated the game today at a media summit in San Francisco, IGN reports. As expected, the majority of gameplay is controlled by flicks and waggles (think: Wii Sports' baseball with shaky fielding), but some of the demonstrator's motions were "unrecognized by the game," IGN observed. "Not a very good sign."In addition to the known cast of playable characters, IGN confirms that Sluggers will feature Baby Mario, Baby Luigi, Waluigi, Toad, Toadette, and Boo.Update: There's been some confusion about the game's title. Is it Super Mario Sluggers? Or Mario Super Sluggers? We're going with the latter for now. It's Mario Super Sluggers -- for sure![Note: Image is a previously released screenshot of "Super Mario Stadium Baseball."]
Mario heads back to the diamond
If you've played Mario's last attempt at baseball on the GameCube, then you might be thinking the same thing as that we are: Super Mario Stadium Baseball will be nothing more than a remake of the first game with Wiimote controls. We're optimist folk here, but the first title had some issues and we're afraid this newest game could make the same mistakes.No news on who will be developing the game, whether it be an internal Nintendo studio or outsourced to someone else. Also, no screens were shown and no release date is known as of right now. Still, we're happy to hear that something a bit more fleshed out than Wii Sports: Baseball will be hitting the Wii.
Mario Kart motorcycles and other quick newsbits from the Nintendo press conference
Nintendo's press conference came as somewhat of a surprise. Even for IGN, who did not know of it and instead translated the live blog of Japanese site Ge-maga. The big news of the event, of course, was Sonic's unveiling as a Smash Bros. Brawl character. Here's what else came out of the event: Mario Kart coming Spring 2008, with motorcycles! Super Mario Stadium Baseball was unceremoniously revealed in a collection of clips for previously-announced games. Nintendo will soon "begin a service similar to the DS Station retail service. You'll be able to download demos from your home." Virtual Console has reached 7.8 million downloads. Even if all those sales were NES titles (and we know they're not), that's at least US $39 million in almost pure profit. "Nintendo will put more emphasis on the Wii Vote channel in the future. You'll be able to put rankings for games that you've played and search for games that fit your liking." The rest of the news: Pokemon Farm, Crystal Chronicles game revealed for Wii Ware Wii Fit coming Dec. 1 in Japan for 8,800 yen Monster Hunter 3 heading to Wii
