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Nintendo Announces New Mario Bros, Mario Galaxy, Metroid

Posted by Soulskill on from the new-ip-is-for-sissies dept.

Nintendo's E3 press conference was an eventful one, with announcements for a new Super Mario Bros. Wii, a sequel to Super Mario Galaxy, and a new entry into the Metroid franchise by Team Ninja. The new Mario Bros. game will be available for the holiday season, and the other two are scheduled for 2010. Nintendo also confirmed an updated version of the Wii Fit, called the Wii Fit Plus (trailer), due out this fall. A full list of Nintendo's announcements is available, which includes more games and new features. Live blogs of the press conference, with commentary and pictures, are up at Engadget and 1Up.

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  1. Also Golden Sun DS by Archaemic · · Score: 5, Informative

    Golden Sun DS (not mentioned in TFS) is really what I'm most excited about. Golden Sun and its sequel for GBA were possibly my favorite RPG series for a long time. What a brilliant mixture of RPG gameplay with puzzle solving it was, with great graphics (for GBA) to boot! I've been waiting for a third for ages, as the second had a somewhat open ending.

  2. Nintendo.... by Darkness404 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Its nice to see Nintendo actually making an effort to appeal to gamers who want a game more involved than a tech demo, but can we please have something... fresh? Sure, Mario, Metroid, and Golden Sun are good, but it seems like Nintendo has really stagnated in good games that aren't gimmicks. Plus theres a bunch of old IP that isn't being capitalized on such as the old Japanese Fire Emblem games, Earthbound hasn't even seen a US release on the Virtual Console and Kid Icarus hasn't seen a new game in ages.

    Nintendo needs to make more "hardcore" games so whenever they aren't in first place anymore they won't go belly up.

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    1. Re:Nintendo.... by AKAImBatman · · Score: 5, Interesting

      That's kind of my feeling. I thought Nintendo did better this year (and Cammie dropped the creepy smile, so that's a win), but I still came away feeling like there was nothing new. It was the same thing we've already tread on the Wii. Where was the Starfox or FZero or Kid Icarus or SOMETHING new and exciting? Even the New Super Mario Bros. Wii reminded me of the multiplayer Mario flash game where players stomp on each other's heads.

      Even the DSi announcements fell flat. Mario and Luigi 3 looked kind of fun, as did the Mario vs. Donkey Kong for DSiWare. Of course, the latter is just the continuing strategy of ripping pieces of old DS games out and putting them up as DSiWare. (At least we got Mighty Flip Champs on Monday.)

      When Nintendo showed the interviews with the kids on the street, I got a kick out of the girl saying she was excited for the new internet features of the DSi. As I expected, Nintendo did nothing with that. I joked with the guys over on DSiCade* that Nintendo should really cut to DSiCade and show our conversation as it was happening. Alas, the poor DSi still got so little love.

      * Disclaimer: I wrote DSiCade.

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    2. Re:Nintendo.... by BenoitRen · · Score: 5, Informative

      the original PlayStation was the most powerful console of its generation

      Nonsense.

      • The Sega Saturn was, in some respects, more powerful. It actually had a two-processor architecture, but that was hard to program for.
      • The Nintendo 64 was more powerful. No question about it. Of course, it was hampered by its storage medium.

      PlayStation vs. Nintendo 64:

      • CPU: 33 Mhz vs. 94 Mhz
      • Memory: 2 MB main RAM and 1 MB video RAM vs. a unified memory system of 4 MB RAM

      The PS2 was either on par, or slightly inferior to the original Xbox, I don't know their stats offhand, but it was certainly superior to Sega's DC, and Nintendo's GC.

      What the hell? This is so wrong.

      The Dreamcast had more video RAM than the PS2 and the GameCube, though its CPU wasn't as fast. That being said, never underestimate the effect of more video RAM on a game console.

      The Xbox was much more powerful than the PS2, and the GameCube was more powerful than the PS2, its better shading effects giving it an edge.

      PlayStation 2 vs. GameCube vs. Xbox:

      • CPU: 295 Mhz vs. 485 Mhz vs. 733 Mhz
      • RAM: 32 MB main RAM and 4MB of video RAM vs. 24 MB main RAM and 3MB of video RAM vs. a unified memory system of 64(!) MB RAM

      Were you brainwashed by Sony, or something?

  3. Re:dangle tags at your own peril by RandomPrecision · · Score: 5, Funny

    This story needs /emphasis

  4. I'm a hypocrite by wilsoniya · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As the type of person who despises media companies that crap out products having never-ending sequels (sims, guitar hero), Nintendo really brings out the hypocrite in me, as I feel compelled to always buy the canonical Mario games.

    They had me at at Super Mario World.

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