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Nintendo Confirms Mario, Smash Bros. Coming This Year
Some excellent news for Nintendo fans: two of the 'big three' games are coming out this year. At an event held in Washington state Reggie Fils-Aime was able to confirm that Smash Bros. and Super Mario Galaxy will be released before the end of the year. Excellent to hear such news, of course ... but other people had different priorities. For Metroid fans, it does indeed look like Samus will have to wait until 2008. Other than that, the company was all good news in general: "Typically, about half of home consoles in Japan are placed in the living room -- with Wii that figure is 75%. In France, 15 of the top 15 games recently were Nintendo. In the US, Fils-Aime says they are seeing 'early signs of significant market change.' The number of female purchasers of hardware are up 42%. The number of people over age of 30 purchasing Nintendo DS is up 127%. Tighten that age range to people over 35, and the number is up 212%. 40% of Wii owners have connected to the internet. 3.3 million plus Virtual Console downloads." Game|Life has hands-on impressions of Brain Age 2 and Mario Strikers Charged , two of the new games shown off at the event.
None of this really matters. There is only one thing that matters:
When is Mario Kart coming out? And will it not totally suck like the Game Cube version did?
In this house we only play one Nintendo game, and it's Mario Kart 64. Emulated, because the new versions suck so bad.
I hold very few opinions. I hold information based on observation and fact. If you wish to disagree, please use facts.
If it's this year, does that mean NO ONLINE MULTIPLAYER?
I remember hearing that there will be no online multiplayer other than Pokemon Coliseum this year. If SSB:B comes out without Multiplayer, legions of gamers will be pissed.
Nintendo has been let off easy when it comes to multiplayer, because sadly no one gives a shit anymore. We all know they're either too scared or incompetent to get Wii games online and rocking.