Half of this story is basically already confirmed 50 times over as Japan's Nikkei newspaper has revealed that Wii Fit Plus will be releasing some time this year. That has been known for a good long period of time via multiple rumors, but the other 50 percent of the announcement is a bit more intriguing. The paper reports that we'll be getting a new Mario this year too.
The Nikkei is usually a very reliable source and reveals that Wii Fit Plus will have online capabilities that allow players to compete with friends and family. The game will also feature better sensitivity, which is likely to come from Wii MotionPlus. The excitement level is high amongst you all, I'm sure.
As for the Mario game not much is told except that it's coming this year. Nintendo has of course been working on one and even said the game would show up later than early 2009, which it now is. If they announce another spin-off title instead of a main Mario game there will probably be riots in the streets.
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12:00 AM on 06.01.2009
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Give me Super Mario Universe and I'll be great.
I'm expecting another Mario Tennis/Mario Golf/Mario Sport here and I could care less about anymore Mario sports games at this point.
I hope so.
Can Nintendo top themselves after the masterpiece that Mario 64 is?
Fixed
Also, you heard it from us folks. Although, I think it's for DS (somehow, even though this big of an announcement would be retarded), and Dan thinks it's for the Wii.
If there's connectivity, we both win.
Amazing though that a "bad" Mario game is still better than 95% of what's out there
Galaxy is 10 times the Mario game 64 was so hush.
@Windex
You seriously complaing about the story IN A MARIO GAME?
And you could use Luigi for the entire game if you wanted to, what exactly did you want out of him?
Galaxy is a masterpiece, if you disagree you are wrong.
Hey, maybe they'll make it fun this time!
Yoshi's Island
Legend of Zelda
Mario Galaxy 2
Pikmin 3
F-Zero
Golden Sun 3
Kid Icarus
Any of these would be fine by me.
I'm throwing up now.
What links?
As for what I think the new Mario is, NSMB2 for Wii would be awesome, and I'd be thrilled if they announced another Mario RPG (especially a true sequel to SMRPG - come on SquareEnix, make it happen!), but it's probably the announcement of a US version of Mario and Luigi 3.
They will have alot of super mario rpg 3 for the "Hardcore Audience", also wiifit plus for the casual. I fucking hate those bullshit phoney words. They should just say, "Here is some games. If you play games and or enjoy them you should buy them cause games are fun."
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Generally speaking it's pretentious elitist "hardcore gamer" subculturists like the users of this site that create that dichotomy, not them...