Legendary games designer Shigeru Miyamoto has confirmed to Spanish newspaper El Mundo that the company is planning to show off a brand new Super Mario game for the Wii U. Sadly there’s no real details, other than the game will combine the TV screen and the Wii U tablet screen, but thankfully we haven’t got too long to wait until E3 to find out.
Nintendo purchases domain names all the time, but when they register one for Super Mario 4 everyone’s interest picks up. We already know that Nintendo currently has a new 2D Super Mario game in the works for the Nintendo 3DS and that they’re most likely to show it off at E3 in June. Do you think the new Mario game for Nintendo 3DS could be Super Mario 4?
Nintendo has revealed the Nintendo 3DS and Wii games that will be playable at PAX East. Gamers will be able to get their hands on Mario Tennis Open (launching May 20), Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir (launching April 13), Kid Icarus: Uprising and Mario Kart 7. Visitors to the Nintendo booth will also be invited to sample Nintendo 3DS games from third-party publishers, including Capcom’s Resident Evil Revelations. PAX East takes place April 6th-8th in Boston.
You may remember that a while back Nintendo of Japan ran a special campaign that entitled anyone who purchased two Nintendo 3DS games to be eligible to win either a Mario, Peach or Toad Nintendo 3DS console. Well, someone has rather luckily managed to get hold of three of these glorious machines, and have rather kindly taken some high quality snapshots of the systems.
The director behind Super Mario Galaxy 2, Koichi Hayashida, believes it would be difficult to make another game in the amazing Super Mario Galaxy series using left over ideas from the previous games. This suggests that the next Mario game for Wii U will most likely be an original concept. Hopefully we should see it in action at this years E3 event in June.
“When we worked on Galaxy 1 we came up with a mountain of ideas. Of course, the ideas that made it in to the final product were the ones at the very top. Those ideas that were most compelling or could be implemented most easily and effectively. The other ideas were a little bit rougher. Ideas we weren’t positive that’d be as effective, or might have been much more difficult to include.”
“When you think about trying to make a game like Galaxy 2 from that large group of ideas that we had already decided were on the rough side, that becomes a very difficult project. The only way that we got through the development of Mario Galaxy 2 was by coming up with entirely new ideas. I think of that as a very challenging project when I look back on it.”
“From that perspective, to say we’d make another game using the ideas left over from Galaxy 2, it’s very difficult for me to imagine. I feel like we really did research the field very well for possible ideas and we used everything that was reasonably easy to implement.”
Nintendo Europe and Nintendo UK have announced that the legendary Super Mario Bros and Punch-Out!! for the Nintendo Entertainment System are now available to download on the Nintendo 3DS eShop.
Nintendo Europe has issued a press release which states that this March is set to be the biggest month ever for Virtual Console as Nintendo announces a bumper crop of classic games set to launch via the Nintendo eShop and Wii Shop Channel. Here’s the full details:
The month of March heralds a wide range of interesting games to download including a chance to replay where it all began for Samus Aran when the original Metroid from the NES becomes available to download on your Nintendo 3DS. Those of you who are looking forward to the upcoming release of Kid Icarus™: Uprising can download the Game Boy title, Kid Icarus™ Of Myths and Monsters allowing Nintendo 3DS owners to become better acquainted with the angelic angel Pit and his action-packed adventures!
Dust off your stethoscope and get ready for some pill arranging action with the classic Game Boy puzzler Dr Mario™, finally arriving to the Nintendo eShop. March will also see the long awaited arrival of the classic SEGA Game Gear line-up including Dragon Crystal™, Shinobi™ and Sonic the Hedgehog™: Triple Trouble.
Wii owners are in for a treat this month when Mega Man X and Mega Man 5 become available on Wii Virtual Console and Super Street Fighter 2 is the first Virtual Console title with Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection functionality which allows fans of the legendary fighting franchise to challenge each other online. You will be treated to even more of history’s best 2D fighting and sidescrolling action in Strider and Samurai Shodown IV: Amakusa’s Revenge respectively.
The month of Virtual Console will kick off this week with two NES classics in the form of the original Super Mario Bros.™ and Punch-Out!!™, both available via the Nintendo eShop. Mario and Luigi have been rescuing princesses and battling Bowser for over 25 years and you now have the chance to play the ultimate classic on your Nintendo 3DS.
Club Nintendo is now offering Mario and Luigi pouches for those of you that want somewhere special to keep your Nintendo 3DS. The Mario pouch was available a while ago on Club Nintendo, but they’ve now decided to add a Luigi pouch for good measure. The Mario and Luigi pouches are available from Club Nintendo for 250 points each.
Japanese newspaper Sankei News has blamed the “curse of Mario” for Nintendo posting huge financial losses. The publication states that Nintendo’s mascot Mario has hindered the company from creating original IP’s and catering to today’s consumers tastes.
“The curse of Mario has hindered Nintendo’s progress into a new market of DLC and smaller indie games.”
“As the game market evolves, Nintendo seems unable to move beyond creating games that rely on the image of Mario.”
Shigeru Miyamoto has told Entertainment Weekly that his favourite character in Mario Kart is the one and only Mario, purely because he believes he’s the most balanced character. Miyamoto was also asked by the publication who his least favourite character is in the Mario Kart series and was surprisingly quick to say Toad. Who is your favourite character in Mario Kart?
