As you've heard, the Wii Fit part of this story is the most solid. In the Japanese Trademark Database, a Wii Fit Plus comes up. Great name, Nintendo. Very inventive. We'll act totally surprised at the announcement on Tuesday's press conference at E3. Siliconera also found a couple of other interesting title names in the database: Art Academy and BonsaiBarber, with the latter being a domestic WiiWare release. I wonder what Art Academy is.
The Mario and Zelda rumors come from an analyst firm that seems to be making sh*t up -- sh*t that just about anyone in this industry could've guessed. According to GamesIndustry.biz, They echo the Wii Fit Plus thing, but then go on to say that we should expect announcements of a Mario or Zelda game. Macquarie Research's reason? They "expect Nintendo to learn its lessons from last year and provide more gamer-centric announcements."
Yeah, so do we.
I'll be up at the ass-crack of dawn to liveblog the Nintendo press conference next week. Maybe we'll get something more interesting than a new Wii Fit game. Stay tuned.
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4:40 PM on 05.27.2009
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I'm predicting New Super Mario Brothers 2 for the DS, which is a sequel to, yet another Mario game.
Well they'll probably have Cosmic Walker, which we haven't seen since last Octobers Media Summit in Japan. It looked pretty cool for the little we got to see of it in the video montage of games they showed, but yeah something totally new, and never seen before would be nice to!
I actually loved how Twilight looked, but it's only due to great art direction, and I sorely miss that eye-candyness from Ocarina, Majora's Mask and, hell, even Wind Waker. I don't remember seeing any cel shading as fluid as that by that time.
Then again, there's the MotionPlus and the balance board to try and keep things fresh. Let's see how they fare.
Also, I think Zelda will be there, but it'll be released in 2011, last year of Wii.
2.5D anything from Nintendo would be amazing.
Too soon for a new Mario, unless it's basically another Galaxy, sort of like DLC but not. And even that seems unlikely.
an online game of Balloon Fighter with customizable parts as helmets, outfit or wings like that Flash game would be awesome.
The issue is not about if it will continue, is that it will be released when. Galaxy came out in... what, 2 years ago? The basic Mario games come out each in an average of four years so it is still too soon to see a new one unless it is a spinoff.
As far was what I'd personally like to see, bring on a new Metroid for WiiWare, even though I don't see that happening. If they do announce a new one, it'll probably be for the DS.
Oh dear God YES!!
I'd phone in the Capcom press conference after last year's fiasco. In fact I'd phone in all of them after seeing Nintendo and Capcom's last year. I honestly felt your pain from having to deal with that shit.
Also, I'm excited for Wii Fit Plus >_>