Nintendo announces New Super Mario Bros. for Wii

(Credit: Gamespot)

At the Nintendo E3 2009 press conference, the company has just announced a brand-new Mario title, New Super Mario Bros. for the Niintendo Wii. The 2D side-scrolling game will feature four-player co-op along with new gameplay features and power-ups. The game automatically zooms and pans so that all four players are always on screen.

New Super Mario Bros. for the Nintendo Wii will be released this holiday season.

[espeed623]

As if the DS incarnate weren't enough for the hardcore mario fans.

[sticks1839]

Sounds a little like Little Big Planet in Mario-style...

[viper396]

There's a certain amount of irony (and obvious fanboyism) when people start claiming Mario is replicating the style of another game. This Wii Mario game is a re-hash of the DS game of the same name which was out long before anyone even heard of Little Big Planet.

[bplewis24]

Viper396, you're completely ignoring the fact that LBP is a side-scroller that "automatically zooms and pans so that all four players are seen on screen." So when he says it sounds "a little like" LBP, he is exactly right. That's not fanboyism. It reeks of fanboyism to start throwing that term around for no reason, though.

[gemedet]

@bplewis24:
Automatically zooming and panning so that all four players can be seen on screen wasn't exactly revolutionary for LBP. I mean, Smash Bros. had that on the 64. And all viper's saying is that it's a bit rich to make a comment like sticks1839's, when EVERY modern platformer has Mario as its base inspiration anyway.

[Pon666]

Mario has had this style since Nintendo was born you idiot.

[TyDiz]

umm I don't think anyone said that the side-scroller was Little Big Planets innovation. It kind of rehashed that genre but not because other new games don't use it or anything like that, they just put it back into the main-stream market.

[Thad Boyd]

Wait. Is it "brand new", or is it a (presumably enhanced) port? Because it has the same title as, and the screenshot looks a damn sight like, New Super Mario Bros for the DS.

I loved NSMB, but I don't love paying for the same game twice.

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[onebluephish]

Nintendo's press conference was very un-inspiring. Yet another year they leave hopeful's such as myself to ponder the fate of other titles passed over that could easily put them lightyears ahead of Microsoft.

[TheGadgetJunky1]

I wonder how the players will keep up when one of the characters becomes Mega Super Mario (or whoever), I'm talking when you obtain the super mega mushroom making you grow to godzilla like sizes and destroy everything in his/her path.

[gwatson47]

For someone who's beat New Super Mario Bros twice(3 stars), although it starts out the same the Demo they showed was not the same game. Yeah it's the same artwork and it starts out the same, but in the end there are a ton of new features and new level designs.

This is not a rehash of New Super Mario Bros for the Wii, its a whole new game.