CheatCC writes: "The Wii-make epidemic is beginning to look like a very real problem. What I'm referring to is when Nintendo takes a good title from their previous console, the GameCube, slaps on some form of gesture controls and then packages it as a new game. Don't get me wrong, I would have no problems with this practice if the controls worked or made sense and the game was, at the very least, slightly updated graphically and on the gameplay side of things. Unfortunately, most people, including myself, would have a hard time calling Mario Super Sluggers an upgrade in any way over Mario Superstar Baseball for the GameCube."
The regular season of Major League Baseballis over. Washington took the cup, and the boys of summer are off to hibernate until spring. For the baseball superfan, this means many long months without their sport of choice, so they've turned to the virtual world. And rather than the super-sims or manager games, a Mario spin-off baseball series seems to have captured people's attention.
Mario Superstar Baseball hit the GameCube in 2005, and its sequel Mario Super Sluggers landed on the Wii in 2008. There hasn't been a new baseball spinoff since developer Now Production's closure, unless you count Super Mario Party's baseball toybox, but the decline in Mario sports games hasn't deterred the dejected baseball fans of the r/baseball subreddit from picking the game apart.
Nintendo trademarks four new titles. The names of the titles are Wrecking Crew, Rhythm Heaven, Mario Super Sluggers, and Golden Sun. Let us hope something new will come from these trademarks, either a remake or a new title.
Wrecking Crew and Rhythm Heaven sound like they could be cool new IPs.
Newegg has released a 72 hour sale.
Deals begin at 12:01am PT on Friday 15th June.