Nintendo shocks the world by announcing Mario Super Sluggers for Wii

We’re well into April, and baseball season is in full swing (pun intended). You know what’s also going on around this time of year? Nintendo’s semiannual media summit, which is currently being held outside of San Francisco in Redwood City, California. As many of you know, Destructoid has a significant amount of Frisco-based staff; for example, Tiff Chow was able to bring us a preview of Fallout 3 by attending an event there.

So it wouldn’t be outside the realm of believability for Destructoid to get invited to the Nintendo event, right? Well, as the inimitable Kevin Spacey famously said, “WRONG!” Apparently, they didn’t have enough room for us, or [insert lame excuse here]. So instead of bringing you this story in a drunken haze from the media summit itself, we’re relegated to merely posting the press release after the jump. Damn you, Nintendo.

Oh wait, I should probably say something about the game in question. So, yeah, we’re going to see another sports game filled with Nintendo characters, à la Mario Strikers Charged and Mario Tennis. But it’s a sport that Nintendo hasn’t done before on the Wii (unless you count Wii Sports, which I don’t). Drumroll, please... The game is Mario Super Sluggers on the Wii! Check out this post’s header image for the only media of the game thus far.

As you probably figured out, baseball is my favorite sport, so I’m really excited to try this game out. We don’t know anything about it yet except that it’ll work like Wii Sports, but really, it’s not that hard to surmise what it might comprise. A few classic Nintendo characters here, some minigames and powerups there, and voila...a Nintendo-themed baseball game that’s fun for the whole family! Are you guys stoked, or what?